On the eve of the 33rd anniversary of its publication, The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century remains an exceptional work. On the one hand, the author offers a pioneering, first-hand testimony of Rudolf Steiner’s prophetic statements regarding the ‘new Christ Revelation’. On the other, he presents his own findings, based on Imaginative consciousness, of ‘the Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century’. Ben-Aharon gives a unique account of events that took place in the spiritual world during the fateful twelve-year period from 1933 to 1945 – encompassing the rise to power of National Socialism and culminating in the end of the Second World War.

Through coming to a fully conscious understanding of this ‘Spiritual Event’, we can gain the courage needed to renew and enliven the spiritual science of anthroposophy as ‘the universal human language of our age’. In addition to his description of the ‘Century’s Event’, the author discusses ‘The New Soul Faculties’, ‘The Relation Between Supersensible and Physical Events’, ‘The Rebirth of Anthroposophy since the End of the Twentieth Century’ and ‘Anthroposophy as the Living Language of the Present’. His words have a particular significance for the grouping of souls which the spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner referred to as the ‘Michael School’.

This third edition features a thoroughly revised and extended Preface, Introduction and auxiliary chapters – updated out of the signs of the present time.

DR YESHAYAHU (JESAIAH) BEN-AHARON is a spiritual scientist, philosopher and social activist. In 1982 he founded the anthroposophical community at Kibbutz Harduf in Israel. Since 2009 he has headed the Global School of Spiritual Science. At the core of his research is the development of human consciousness in philosophy, history, art, natural sciences and social life.

He is the author of Cognitive Yoga, The Three Meetings, Jerusalem, The Twilight and Resurrection of Humanity, Spiritual Science in the Twenty-First Century, The Event in Science, History, Philosophy & Art, The New Experience of the Supersensible, The Modern Christ Experience and the Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming, Volumes 1-4, America’s Global Responsibility, Cognitive Yoga: How a Book is Born, and The Time is at Hand!