William Bento: I will attempt to give an abbreviated view of the context out of which Rudolf Steiner brought forward his ideas in the Berlin lecture series of 1909, 1910 and 1911, now published and entitled, A Psychology of Body, Soul and Spirit. ... If one lives with the idea that Steiner was taking every opportunity to address the origin, nature and destiny of humanity, many developmental aspects of his talks fall into place….

Dr Michaela Glöckler, M.D. for many years served as a head of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, in Dornach, Switzerland. She co-authored A Guide to Child’s Health, Floris Books. This article is adapted from a lecture given in September 2001, we publish here fragments of it. Special thanks to Anne Sproll for translating it from German language.