The book points to the historic importance of the first Goetheanum. Steiners lecture on October 25, 1914, and his lecture on the paintings of the small cupola on January 25, 1920, appear in English here for the first, along with color photographs from 1922. Also included are the little-known colored etchings of the Goetheanum window motifs made by Assya Turgenieff with Rudolf Steiner, as well as other centrally important contributions to an understanding of this new direction in art.