English Issue 43/2024

What a picture: 100 years after Rudolf Steiner’s birth, the Rudolf Steiner Archive began publishing the Gesamtausgabe (GA) [the Complete Works, in German], and in 2025, the centenary of his death, the archive’s staff will finalize this great project. The result is 400 volumes of Rudolf Steiner’s words, both spoken and written, and each of these 400 volumes has been edited, corrected for transcription errors, and annotated by the archive’s proofreaders. If it was fortunate that Rudolf Steiner’s lectures were written down in shorthand—over 3,000 by Helene Finckh alone!—it is equally fortunate to have an editorial team at Rudolf Steiner Archive that is actually completing the Complete Works. We readers are recipients of the third piece of good fortune when the stenographed and edited words come alive in our heads, hearts, and hands.