Of making many books there is no end,
   Though myriads have to deep oblivion gone;
Each day new manuscripts are being penned,
   And still the ceaseless tide of ink flows on.

Though myriads have to deep oblivion gone,
   New volumes daily issue from the press;
And still the ceaseless tide of ink flows on—
   The prospect is disheartening, I confess.

New volumes daily issue from the press;
   My pile of unread books I view aghast.
The prospect is disheartening, I confess;
   Why will these modern authors write so fast?

My pile of unread books I view aghast—
   Of course I must keep fairly up to date—
Why will these modern authors write so fast?
   They seem to get ahead of me of late.

—Carolyn Wells, from “Of Modern Books” (a pantoum)

Greetings on this last Sunday of July!

This week we are featuring six new publications in The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner series—much to peruse!

All best wishes for your week,
John-Scott

New in the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

Background to the Gospel of St. Mark
13 lectures, various locations, Oct. 17, 1910 – June 10, 1911 (CW 124)
Introduction by Robert A. McDermott
Translated by E. H. Goddard and Dorothy S. Osmond
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Four Modern Mystery Dramas
The Doorway of Initiation • The Trial of the Soul • The Guardian of the Threshold • The Souls Awaken
Written 1910 to 1913 (CW 14)
Translated and Introduced by Richard Ramsbotham
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The Mystery of Death
The Nature and Significance of Central Europe
and the European Folk-Spirits
15 lectures, various cities, January 31 – June 19, 1915 (CW 159)
Introduction by Urs Dietler
Translated by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
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Past and Future Impulses in Societal Events
12 lectures, Dornach, March 21 – April 14, 1919 (CW 190)
Translated and Introduced by Paul King
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Three Paths to Christ
Experiencing the Supersensible
14 lectures, various cities, January 11 – December 29, 1912 (CW 143)
Introduction by Margaret Jonas
Translated by Christiana Bryan
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The Value of Thinking
For a Cognition that Satisfies the Human Being: The Relationship between Spiritual Science and Natural Science
11 lectures, Dornach, August 20 – October 9, 1915 (CW 164)
Translated and Introduced by Christian von Arnim
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