The Connection Between the Living and the Dead: (Cw 168) Volume 168

8 lectures in various cities, Feb. 16 - Dec. 3, 1916 (CW 168)

The year is 1916. Europe is entering the third year of the most devastatingly brutal war yet known. The high hopes and idealistic expectations for the newly dawned twentieth century have been very quickly met with the murderous visage of modern warfare. (The death toll would eventually reach 35 million souls.) Such is the context and ever-present background to these presentations, informing both their mood and content.

Rudolf Stei...