Translated by Olive Whicher and Johanna Wrigley Revised by J. Collis
Illustrations in the text by Walther Roggenkamp
Sophia Books
Rudolf Steiner Press
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Forest Row, East Sussex
RH18 5ES
First English edition 1965
Reprinted 1971, 1976 and 1990
Revised second edition 1996
Reprinted 1999, 2001, 2004, 2008
Originally published in German by Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart, in 1962
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This revised translation © Rudolf Steiner Press 1996
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ISBN 978 1 85584 362 2
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