This is a rare lecture by Rudolf Steiner, out of print for many decades in German, and never before published in English. Because the original German is nearly impossible to find, it has been included together with the English translation. Here Steiner is very much in his theosophical phase, although he is already of two minds about H. P. Blavatsky, and he insists that the movement is every bit as Rosicrucian as it is theosophical. Anticipating what will ultimately cause the final break with theosophy, he insists that Christ - at Buddha - can incarnate once and once only in a fleshly body.