Fairy Tales

in the Light of Spiritual Investigation

By: Rudolf Steiner

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 1 hr and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

From the contents of this lecture: “Fairy tales and sagas are comparable to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life’s wanderings, to be a trustworthy comrade throughout – offering comradeship, and making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!” From the contents of this lecture: “Fairy tales and sagas are comparable to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life’s wanderings, to be a trustworthy comrade throughout – offering comradeship, and making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!” This is a lecture, given by Rudolf Steiner, entitled Märchendichtungen im Lichte der Geistesforschung and contained in the volume Ergebnisse der Geistesforschung (Results of Spiri¬tual Research) GA 62. The series in which this lecture was given at the Architektenhaus in Berlin, may be said to underline its overall importance for Rudolf Steiner: Held February 6th 1913 subsequent to a lecture January 30th on Raphael, it was followed a week later, on February 13th, by a lecture on Leonardo da Vinci.