Produced by Fritz Ohrenschall, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT AND THE MYSTERIES OF ANTIQUITY BY DR. RUDOLF STEINER AUTHOR OF "MYSTICS OF THE RENAISSANCE," "THE GATES OF KNOWLEDGE," ETC. _THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED_ EDITED BY H. COLLISON THE AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1914 BY H. COLLISON The copyrights, the publishing rights, and the editorial responsibility for the translations of the works of Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D., with the exception of those already published under the editorial supervision of Mr. Max Gysi, are now vested in Mr. Harry Collison, M.A., Oxon. The Knickerbocker Press, New York PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION _Christianity as Mystical Fact_ was the title given by the author to this work, when, eight years ago, he gathered into it the substance of lectures delivered by him in 1902. The title indicated the special character of the book. In it the attempt was made, not merely to represent historically the mystical content of Christianity, but to describe the origin of Christianity from the standpoint of mystical contemplation. Underlying this intention was the thought that at the genesis of Christianity mystical facts were at work which can only be perceived by such contemplation.