Awareness - Life - Form
GA 89
Sources
Part I
Fragment: handwritten manuscript by Rudolf Steiner (see editor’s introduction ‘About this volume’). Words given in italics are underlined in the original MS.
Earth evolution: Handwritten notes which had been enclosed with a letter written to Marie von Sivers (Marie Steiner from Dec. 1914) dated 6 January 1906. The letter no longer exists. The additional comments are taken from the letter written on 7 January 1906 (in Correspondence and Documents (GA 262), tr. C. v. Arnim, London/New York: Rudolf Steiner Press/Anthroposophic Press 1988).
Shortly before this he had sent her his description of Moon evolution with a letter dated 19 November 1905. This manuscript is no longer extant. A comment in the letter: ‘I’ll need to do some more work on it for Lucifer,' suggests that, like others from those early days, the manuscript was then kept by the printer.
The nature of the Christ: Extract from a handwritten letter to Marie von Sivers dated 13 January 1906 (from GA 262—as above).
Names of the days in the week and human evolution: Handwritten material enclosed with an undated letter [Nuremberg, 25 November 1905] to Marie von Sivers (from GA 262—as above).
Three lectures on cosmology: notes taken by Franz Seiler and Walter Vegelahn.
Planetary evolution: Handwritten notes of Mathilde Scholl and Marie von Sivers.
Part II
The first, second and third sonhood of God: two handwritten notebook pages (Archive No. NZ 471/72), undated, c. 1903/04, probably written down for Marie von Sivers.
The godhead revealed as All Soul and All Life: Handwritten copy of Rudolf Steiner’s original by Jan Peelen. Original no longer extant. Written down at Peelen’s request in Cologne on 27 April 1905.
Signs and evolution of the three Logoi in humanity: Written down by hand by Rudolf Steiner for Edouard Schuré. Title added in the latter’s writing. Probably written down during visit to Schuré in Barr/Alsace in September 1906. Schuré probably asked for this as he was planning to report on the 18 lectures Rudolf Steiner gave in Paris in May 1906 (in Esoteric Cosmology, Spring Valley: St George Publications 1978), where the three Logoi were discussed in the lecture given on 9 June 1906.
Notes from private teaching sessions: In the summer of 1903 and 1904, Rudolf Steiner gave a number of private lessons for Marie von Sivers, her sister Olga and her friend Maria von Strauch-Spettini in Marie von Siver’s flat in Berlin- Schlachtensee. Marie von Sivers had made brief notes. About the Logoi: These notes, with no date or place given, came from Mathilde Scholl, probably from a private lesson she was given.
Part III
About the cabbala: Notes taken by Franz Seiler and Marie von Sivers.
Symbols reflecting original wisdom: Notes taken by Marie von Sivers, Walter Vegelahn and Camilla Wandrey.
The book of ten pages: Notes taken by Walter Vegelahn, Marie von Sivers, Camilla Wandrey and an unknown person. They themselves marked the larger gaps in taking down notes (...).
The sketches
In the Notes, the sketches are facsimiles of copies made of Rudolf Steiner’s sketches.
The sketches in the lectures on planetary evolution are facsimiles of Mathilde Scholl’s original sketches. It should be noted that they were copied from the blackboard, so that minor variations cannot be excluded.
Marie von Sivers’ notes do not include sketches.
Earlier publications
From Part I
Earth evolution / The nature of the Christ as the macrocosmic human being in reverse / Names of the days in the week and human evolution: in Correspondence and Documents (GA 262), tr. C. v. Arnim, London/New York: Rudolf Steiner Press/Anthroposophic Press 1988).
Planetary evolution: in Beiträge zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe Nr. 67/68, Nr. 69/70, Nr. 71/72, Nr. 78. English typescript translation R 73, Rudolf Steiner House Library, London.
From Part II
Berlin, 2, 3, 4, 7 July 1904: in Beiträge zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe Nr. 67/68.
Schlachtensee summer 1903: in Über die astrale Welt und das Devachan, GA 88.
From Part III
Berlin, 18 March 1904 and Berlin 3 April 1905: in Beiträge zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe Nr. 29 and 32 resp.
Titles
The volume was given its title by the editors.
Titles of the texts in Part I: ‘Earth evolution’ and ‘Names of the days in the week and human evolution’ by Rudolf Steiner; titles of the two lecture courses by the note-takers; the rest by the editors of this volume.
Titles of texts in Parts II and III: The title of the material written down for Edouard Schure was added by the latter; the titles given to lecture notes come from the note-takers; the rest are by the editors of this volume.