The bee people have always held a strong fascination for human beings. Paintings and texts tell of its myth, of the relationship with this being of the sky, and of the inestimable value of honey and wax: here resonates the close relationship between bees and human destiny. Even nowadays this myth, understood as a timeless animic image, has lost none of its force, although explanations concerning the connections have changed. Numerous quotations from lectures given by Rudolf Steiner on the subject of bees.