Mystery Centres: A Series of 14 Lectures by Rudolf Steiner (Mystery Centers, Doranch, 1923)

First Published October, 1943. Copyright 1943 by H. Collison. Rare first printing of this classic translation. 1943 date at title page; "Printed in England" stamp also at title page. Light brown full cloth boards uniquely semi-flexible, gilt cover and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear, rub, toning. Pages good, clean; few with brief intelligent notation. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Apprx. 7 1/2" x 9" design. Stated: Taken down by a Stenographer, and Unrevised by the Lecturer. CONTENTS: "Lecture I: Concerning the Soul-Life of Man, and the Perceptionof the Spiritual Foundations of the World - The Experience of Thinking - The Experience of Feeling - The Experience of Gesture. Nov. 23, 1923; Lecture II: The Activity of the Soul-Nature in Physical Man - The Influence of the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic Beings on Man and In Nature - Heredity and Adaptation to Environment. Nov. 24, 1923; Lecture III: Identification with the Inner Life of Nature, through Imagination and Will - The Life of Memory - The Being of Gesture and of Physiognomy - Experience of Day and Year - Summer-Will and Winter-Will. Nov. 25, 1923. The EPHESIAN MYSTERIES OF ARTEMIS. Lecture IV: The Connection of Man with the Earth-Planet - The Crystal Covering of the Earth - The Speech of the Metals - The Backward-raying Forces of the Metals, and the Connection between Earth-lives. Nov. 30, 1923; Lecture V: Mineral and Plant-Animal Creation - The previous Earth-atmosphere - Plants as Gifts of Heaven - Animals as Earth-forms - The Cosmic Memory of Metals. Dec. 1, 1923; Lecture VI: The Ephesian Mysteries of Artemis. Dec. 2, 1923. THE MYSTERIES OF HIBERNIA. Lecture VII: The Mystery Centres of Hibernia. Dec. 7, 1923; Lecture VIII: The Being of the Hibernian Mysteries. Dec. 8, 1923; Lecture IX: The Great Mysteries of Hibernia. Dec. 9, 1923. THE CHTHONIC AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES. Lecture X: The Transition from Plato to Aristotle. Dec. 14, 1923; Lecture XI: The Secret of Plants, of Metals, and of Men. Dec. 15, 1923; Lecture XII: Mysteries of the Samo-thracian Kabiri. Dec. 21, 1923; Lecture XIII: Transition from the Spirit of the Ancient Mysteries to the Spirit of the Mysteries of the Middle Ages. Dec. 22, 1923; Lecture XIV: Human Soul Strivings during the Middle Ages - The Rosicrucian Mysteries. Dec. 23, 1923." Printed in Great Britain. 124 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.…