life had lost all contemporary relevance and promoted full assimilation of the Jewish people into the nations in which they lived. Steiner was a critic of his contemporary Theodor Herzl's goal of a Zionist state, and indeed of any ethnically determined state, as he considered ethnicity to be an outmoded basis for social life and civic identity. Writings (selection) See also Works in GermanThe standard edition of Steiner's Collected Works constitutes about 422 volumes. This includes 44 volumes of his writings (books, essay, plays, and correspondence), over 6000 lectures, and some 80 volumes (some still in production) documenting his artistic work (architecture, drawings, paintings, graphic design, furniture design, choreography, etc.). His architectural work, particularly, has also been documented extensively outside of the Collected Works. Goethean Science (1883–1897) Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World-Conception (1886) Truth and Knowledge, doctoral thesis, (1892) Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path, also published as the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity and the Philosophy of Freedom (1894) Mysticism at the Dawn of Modern Age () Christianity as Mystical Fact (1902) Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos (1904) How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (1904–5) Cosmic Memory: Prehistory of Earth and Man (1904) (Also published as The Submerged Continents of Atlantis and Lemuria) The Education of the Child, (1907) The Way of Initiation, (1908) (English edition trans. by Max Gysi) Initiation and Its Results, (1909) (English edition trans. by Max Gysi) An Outline of Esoteric Science (1910) Four Mystery Dramas (1913) The Renewal of the Social Organism (1919) Fundamentals of Therapy: An Extension of the Art of Healing Through Spiritual Knowledge (1925) Reincarnation and Immortality, Rudolf Steiner Publications. (1970) Rudolf Steiner: An Autobiography, Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1977, (Originally, The Story of my Life) Rudolf Steiner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fighter for Freedom Garber Communications; 2nd revised edition (July 1985) See also Esotericism Guardian of the Threshold Rudolf Steiner and colour mysticism Martinus References Notes Citations Further reading Almon, Joan (ed.) Meeting Rudolf Steiner, firsthand experiences compiled from the Journal for Anthroposophy since 1960, Anderson, Adrian: Rudolf Steiner Handbook, Port Campbell Press, 2014, Childs, Gilbert, Rudolf Steiner: His Life and Work, Davy, Adams and Merry, A Man before Others: Rudolf Steiner Remembered. Rudolf Steiner Press, 1993. Easton, Stewart, Rudolf Steiner: Herald of a New Epoch, Hemleben, Johannes and Twyman, Leo, Rudolf Steiner: An Illustrated Biography. Rudolf Steiner Press,