Table of contents : Childhood and youth -- Rudolf Steiner the Goethe Scholar -- Striving for perception in the Weimar period -- "The philosophy of freedom" -- Berlin 1897-1900 -- From theosophy to anthroposophy -- Anthroposophy -- Christology -- Anthroposophy in art -- Lecturing activities : the First World War -- The threefold social order (1918-1921) -- The Steiner Waldorf educational movement (1919-1924) -- Medicine (1920-1924) -- Education for special needs -- Agriculture -- The founding of the Christian community (1921-1922) -- The final years.