Rudolf Steiner and the Fifth Gospel

Rudolf Steiner received the Fifth gospel-unrecorded events from the so-called lost years of the life of Jesus, obtained by grace and by spiritual research into the Akashic Record-as a "sacred obligation" to which he experienced a deep sense of responsibility. However, he never finished the project of unveiling it. Had he done so, not only Anthroposophy but also Christianity would have received an enormous spiritual gift: a concrete, soul-filled description of the Mystery of Golgotha. His deeply moving and often startling lectures in 1913 are thus fragmentary, giving the near-tragic impression that because those who heard or read them did not take them up with sufficient seriousness and inner dedication, humanity has suffered an inestimable loss.

Peter Selg was born in 1963 in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. Dr. Selg is now director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and social Sciences (Germany). He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books, including Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher, The Figure of Christ, The Therapeutic Eye, and A Grand Metamorphosis. He is married with five children.