Introduction

This is a reading of Collected Works' Volume 98, by Rudolph Steiner. It's the lecture notes to 18 lectures entitled Nature and Spirit Beings,. Their Activity in Our Visible World Translated by Christian Fananam. This is Lecture 4. Given in Cologne on the 25th of December 1907, entitled The Mysteries, A Christmas and Easter Poem by Gerta. Anyone who is in Cologne Cathedral tonight could see there the three letters in illuminated lettering, C.M.B. They stand for the names of the so-called three kings called Kaspar, Melchior and Baltazar.