A Road to Self-Knowledge,

Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen.
In Acht Meditationen.

Rudolf Steiner
(Written Berlin 1912; GA 16 / Bn 16 / CW 16)

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This book is an "amplification" of the book entitled Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment. It consists of eight "meditations." The eight topics treated are: The Physical Body, The Etheric Body, Clairvoyant Cognition of the Elemental World, The Guardian of the Threshold, The Astral Body, The Ego Body or Thought Body, The Character of Experience in the Supersensible Worlds, and The Way in Which Man Beholds His Repeated Earth Lives.

The original German title is: Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen. In Acht Meditationen.

Known Publications:

• Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen. In Acht Meditationen, German language editions: 1912, 1918, 1920, 1935, 1956, 1968, 1982 ISBN 3-7274-0160-5,
• A Road to Self Knowledge, G. P. Putnam's Sons, London and New York, 1918, authorized translation edited by H. Collison
• A Road to Self Knowledge, Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., London, 1922, 1930, 1938, 99 pp., bound with The Threshold of the Spiritual World, translated from the German by H. Collison
• A Road to Self Knowledge, Anthroposophical Publishing Co., London, 1956, 1975, 86 pp., translated from the German by M. Cotterell
• A Road to Self Knowledge, Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., London, 1975, 173pp., bound with The Threshold of the Spiritual World, translated from the German by M. Cotterell ISBN 0-85440-290-X, Cloth; ISBN 0-85440-291-8, Paper
• A Road to Self Knowledge, Anthroposophic Press, Hudson NY, 1999, bound with Bn 17, A Way of Self-Knowledge, translated from the German ISBN 0-88010-443-0, Paper