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Printed for the Members of the School of Spiritual Science, Class I. ¶ No person is qualified to form a judgement on the contents of this work, who has not acquired — through the School itself or in an equivalent manner recognized by the School — the requisite preliminary knowledge. Other opinions will be disregarded: the authors decline to take them as a basis for discussion.

In the Complete Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner the original German text is published with the title: Welt, Erde und Mensch, deren Wesen und Entwickelung sowie ihre Spiegelung in dem Zusammenhang zwischen aegyptischem Mythos und gegenwaertiger Kultur (No. 105 in the Bibliographic Survey, 1961). The original translation was from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer. Published here with the permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.