Who was Cain and what does he represent? The first part of thisbook invites us to revise the traditional, biblical, view of Cain as hisbrother's murderer. Rudolf Steiner shows how the original Cain was ready tosacrifice his being to something higher, but this pure impulse was pervertedinto the desire to murder. Our earthly knowledge has an affinity with thefallen Cain, but there is also a path by which we can ascend to the conditionof Cain before...