Did Rudolf Steiner dream these things? Did he dream them as they once
occurred, at the beginning of all time? They are, for sure, far more
astonishing than the demiurges and serpents and bulls found in other
cosmogonies.—Jorge Luis Borges
Rudolf Steiner recorded his view of the world in numerous books. He also
gave more than 5,000 lectures, in which he explained his ideas, using only
minimal notes. When describing especially difficult subjects, Steiner
frequently resorted to illustrating what he was saying with colored chalk on
a large blackboard. After his earlier lectures, the drawings were erased and
irretrievably lost. After the autumn of 1919, however, thick black paper was
used to cover the blackboards so that the drawings could be rolled up and
saved.
The Trustees of Rudolf Steiner's Estate in Dornach, Switzerland, possess
more than a thousand such drawings. A selection of these drawings was first
shown to the general public in 1992, and since then, exhibitions in Europe,
America, and Japan have generated much interest in Steiner's works.