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Ex c e r p t s “How Wide the Heart: From the Introduction” “A Way of Self-Knowledge: Introduction” “The Other Steiner: Snapshots of Rudolf Steiner” Esoteric Lessons, 1904–1909” – excerpts

Ar t i c l e s “What Lies behind Our Fundraising Appeals” “Benziger Family Winery: A Biodynamic Success Story”

Rudolf Steiner’s Verse for America Given to Ralph Courtney, a pioneer of Anthroposophy in North America, this verse for the American spirit speaks of the inner unity of human beings and of support from the spiritual world for our efforts:

May our feeling penetrate into the center of our heart, and seek, in love, to unite itself with the human beings seeking the same goal, with the spirit beings who — bearing grace, strengthening us from realms of light, and illuminating our love — are gazing down upon our earnest, heartfelt striving.

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This issue of Steiner & Spirit celebrates the fruits of Anthroposophy in diverse forms. In addition to the depth and variety of new literature that arises from more than a century of spiritual scientific study and research, we can also enjoy the more tangible fruits that grow out of Rudolf Steiner’s ideas — as seen, for example, on this issue’s cover as well as the many fields represented by our authors. And it gives a true sense of accomplishment to continue our mission of publishing the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner (see pages 3–5). This year has been fruitful in many ways, and this catalog gives us the opportunity to share our efforts with you. In our “New Books” section (beginning page 6), we present many excellent new books: How Wide the Heart: The Roots of Peace in Palestine and Israel, an exciting new book from Marko Pogacnic and his daughter Ana Pogacnic, each taking a unique approach to their subject. An especially beautiful book is coming your way this fall: The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, Goethe’s Rosicrucian fairy tale, which includes dazzling full-color reproductions of paintings by Hermann Linde, produced in close collaboration with Rudolf Steiner. Dr. Robert Zieve, author of the popular Healthy Medicine, addresses the current U.S. health crisis in Beyond the Medical Meltdown. Sharifa Oppenheimer has collected the wisdom of her lifework with young children in her guidebook for parents, Heaven on Earth. Also new are Coping with Evil by Bruce McCausland; Dr. Arnold Wadler’s One Language: Source of All Tongues; and Maria Nemcová Banerjee’s acclaimed Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason. Three books long out of print are Herbert Koepf ’s classic guide, The Biodynamic Farm; John Jocelyn’s Meditations on the Signs of the Zodiac; and Dina Winter’s Singing and the Etheric Tone, the classic handbook for singers. The articles in this issue lead off with “What Lies behind Our Fundraising Appeals, or How Our Finances Work.” It is my hope that this “open letter” to our readers will dispell many of the misconceptions about how SteinerBooks operates, its economics, and our publishing process. Our other article is “Benziger Family Winery: A Biodynamic Success Story.” The growing use of biodynamic methods in commercial farming is heartening, both from the perspective of seeing anthroposophic ideas entering more fully into our culture and in terms of the improved personal and environmental health. And we include a few very interesting excerpts. The first is an excerpt from the author’s introduction to How Wide the Heart: The Roots of Peace in Palestine and Israel, an especially timely book by Marko and Ana Pogacnik. Our editor in chief Christopher Bamford provides many of our introductions to the works of Rudolf Steiner, and they never fail to reveal the great depth of Steiner’s writings and lectures, while placing them in the context of his life and times and helping us understand Steiner in relation to life today. The introduction to A Way of Self-Knowledge illuminates one of Steiner’s most accessible and important works for inner development. Also, one of our excellent translators, Mado Spiegler, was kind enough to provide “The Other Steiner: Snapshots of Rudolf Steiner.” These short recollections appear here for the first time in English and offer warm, insightful, and sometimes surprising observations of Steiner the person. This is followed by a short introduction, a lecture, and two “lessons” from Rudolf Steiner’s Esoteric Lessons, 1904–1909. We hope you enjoy and benefit from this issue of Steiner & Spirit. Let us know what you think — we enjoy hearing from you. All best wishes,

Gene Gollogly

Contents New in “The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner”

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Biography

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New Books

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Spiritual Fiction

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Foundational Works by Rudolf Steiner

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Verses & Meditations

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The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

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Arts & Literature

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The Life & Work of Rudolf Steiner

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Science & Nature

78

Esoteric Studies

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Biodynamic Farming & Gardening

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Inner Development

38

Star Wisdom

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Myth, Evolution & History

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Ads from Our Sponsors

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Life after Death

43

Reincarnation & Karma

46

“How Wide the Heart” (from the introduction)

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Spirit Worlds & Beings

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Esoteric Christianity

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“What Lies behind Our Fundraising Appeals, or How Our Finances Work”

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Sophia

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“A Way of Self-Knowledge”

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The Cycle of the Year

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“The Other Steiner: Snapshots of Rudolf Steiner”

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Nutrition, Health & Therapies

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“Esoteric Lessons, 1904–1909”

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Biographical Issues

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Soul & Spirit

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Index of Books & Authors

108

Economic Renewal & Social Issues

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How to Order

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H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

THE SUN MYSTERY & THE MYSTERY OF DEATH AND RESURRECTION Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity Introduction by Christopher Bamford Translated by Catherine E. Creeger 12 lectures, various cities, March 21–June 11, 1922 (CW 211)

were given in 1922, midway between the end of

War I and Steiner’s death in 1925. TTheWorld first two lectures are a call to arms and HESE LECTURES

a return to basics. Steiner speaks existentially and phenomenologically, building on descriptions of familiar experiences. He shows how the three states of consciousness (waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep) have initiatory possibilities. Next, he addresses the evolution of consciousness in relation to the universal significance of the Christ event. Through the resurrection, Christ entered earthly evolution; as a result, we see the world differently. Ancient humanity experienced “Not I but the divine spirit around me,” whereas we can experience “Not I, but the Christ in me.” Thus we reach the heart of this volume—esoteric Christianity. To Rudolf Steiner, the foremost purpose of being human is to overcome death by uniting with the Christ. Human survival depends on the “enchristing” of the world. The purpose of Anthroposophy to bring this reality into evolution for all. Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) became a respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar. He developed his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to methodical research of psychological and spiritual phenomena that has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, philosophy, religion, education, science, agriculture, and the arts. He founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which has branches throughout the world. ISBN: 0880106085 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $24.95 6 X 9¼ 232 PAGES

ESOTERIC LESSONS 1904–1909 Volume 1 RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Christopher Bamford • Translated by James H. Hindes 1904–1909 (CW 266/1)

has it become clear that on most occasions

Rudolf Steiner would visit a city to give a lecture, either to O members or to the general public, and also hold a meeting of the NLY RECENTLY

to provide his most advanced students with the esoteric background of his ongoing spiritual research. The three volumes of Steiner’s “esoteric lessons” are based on notes taken by his closest students. The talks are profound, intimate, and revealing and will be a major resource for serious students of Steiner’s work and anyone interested in Anthroposophy and Western esotericism. ISBN: 0880106107 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $29.95 6 X 9¼ 576 PAGES NOVEMBER 2006

FROM THE HISTORY AND CONTENTS OF THE FIRST SECTION OF THE ESOTERIC SCHOOL 1904–1914 From the History and Contents of the First Section of the Esoteric School, 1904–1914

letters, documents, and lectures

Letters, Documents, and Lectures RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Hella Wiesberger • Translated by John Wood Volume 3 (CW 264)

text for those inter-

ested in the development of Rudolf ASteiner’s teaching and for exploring the N IMPORTANT

advice and admonitions offered by Steiner to his early students. This collection Rudolf Steiner of letters, circulars, and lectures give a glimpse of the birth of the anthroposophical movement out of the theosophical movement of the late nineteenth century. We gain a clear picture of why Steiner could no longer work within the theosophical framework, and of the events that led to the split between the Theosophical Society under the leadership of Annie Besant and the Esoteric School under Steiner’s leadership. Primarily in the form of letters are the specific exercises and advice that Steiner gave to pupils who wished to further their spiritual capacities. Also included are his early lectures and teachings concerning the “Masters” and their relationship to human evolution. Includes introductory remarks by the book’s original editor, Hella Wiesberger. ISBN: 0880104341 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $29.95 6 X 9¼ 464 PAGES OCTOBER 2006

Esoteric Section where he also gave a talk. These talks were intended

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The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

A WAY

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And the Soul’s Path to Spiritual Experience Translated and Introduced by Christopher Bamford Written 1912 and 1913 (CW 16/17) ART ONE ,

“A Way of Self-Knowledge,” contains

eight meditations that take the reader on a Pjourney through human experience. Steiner offers

ways to imagine and understand the physical body, the elemental (or etheric) body, the elemental world, the Guardian of the Threshold, the astral body, the I-body (or thought body), the nature of experience in suprasensory worlds, and ways of perceiving previous earthly lives. Part two, “The Threshold of the Spiritual World,” contains sixteen short chapters in which Steiner provides aphoristic thoughts on trusting one’s thinking’ cognition of the spiritual world’ karma and reincarnation’ the astral body and luciferic beings’ how to recognize suprasensory consciousness; the true nature of love; and more. The books included in this volume represent Steiner’s most personal statements about his own spiritual path. He speaks directly from experiences of cognitive research and explorations. This Collected Works edition contains a new introduction, a chronology of Rudolf Steiner’s life, and an index. ISBN: 0880104430 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $17.95 6 X 9¼ 220 PAGES NOVEMBER 2006

APPROACHING THE MYSTERY OF GOLGOTHA

Introduction by Christopher Bamford Translated by Michael Miller 10 lectures, various cities, 1913–1914 (CW 152)

RUDOLF Steiner and Anthroposophy, 1913 was a landmark

year. In February, after more than a year of gestation, the first FGeneral Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society was held. In OR

September, the Foundation Stone for the Goetheanum was laid in Dornach. The ground for Anthroposophy as we know it today was established. Outwardly, these lectures begin to set the record straight. Inwardly, they try to establish a relationship of service to Christ and the spiritual worlds in accord with the spirit of the times, the Archangel Michael. For the first time, Rudolf Steiner reveals openly the need for a true “Michael School” and that he and Anthroposophy, the fruit of his spiritual research, are earthly representatives of Michael. Christ and Michael are the explicit guiding lights of this collection, which itself represents a profound act of Christ-Michael service. With courage, devotion, and conviction, Rudolf Steiner, now free and independent, the “teacher” of his own “school,” sets about

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unveiling the truth and reality, as he knows it. Again and again, he returns to the sacrificial deeds of Christ—creative, sustaining, and enabling our humanity—before, during, and after Golgotha. The teaching at the heart of this volume, as it is at the heart of the Christ, is selflessness: the overcoming of egotism and the primacy of the other. This Collected Works edition contains a new introduction, a chronology of Rudolf Steiner’s life, and an index. ISBN: 0880106069 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $24.95 6 X 9 INCHES 208 PAGES SEPTEMBER 2006

“FREEMASONRY” WORK

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The Misraim Service Texts and Documents from the Cognitive-Cultic Section of the Esoteric School 1905–1919 Introduction by Christopher Bamford Translated by Paul Emberson (CW 265)

Esoteric Section, Rudolf Steiner cre-

ated the “Cognitive Cultic Section,” a ritual order Aconnected to Masonic tradition, but independent and LONGSIDE THE

anthroposophical in inspiration. This astonishing volume contains the rituals, lectures, meditations, and other instructions Steiner gave. As he began to establish his esoteric mission, Rudolf Steiner chose to connect his spiritual goals and efforts with the wisdom streams that had prepared the ground for his task. For the sake of conscience, gratitude, and continuity, he determined to acknowledge those who preceded him and to relate himself to them in his characteristically free, creative, conscious, and independent way. Steiner also understood that ritual was central, even necessary, as the essence of embodied spiritual work. For this reason, he saw Freemasonry as the preeminent spiritual, non-sectarian, communitarian paradigm. Although he never “became” a Mason, in 1905 the “Great Orient of the Scottish A & A Thirty-Three Degree Rite of the Order of the Ancient Freemasons of the Memphis-Misraim Rite” granted Rudolf Steiner — based on his self-evident, extraordinary initiatory status — a patent to direct his own “order” under the name “Mystica Aeterna,” which became the “Cognitive Cultic Section” of the Esoteric School of the German Section of the Theosophical Society; this is the subject of this book. This volume is an excellent companion to From the History and Contents of the First Section of the Esoteric School 1904–1914 (2006). ISBN: 0880106123 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $29.95 6 X 9¼ 600 PAGES NOVEMBER 2006

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

CHRISTIANITY

Chapters in the Course of My Life: 1861–1907 Introduction by Christopher Bamford, Notes by Paul Marshall Allen Written 1924–1925 (CW 28)

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MYSTICAL FACT

Translation and preface by Andrew Welburn • Introduction by Christopher Bamford Afterword by Michael Debus Written 1902 (CW 8)

“Jesus Christ appeared in his own time as an initiate— but one initiated in a uniquely great way. He was proof of the divine presence in the world. Henceforth, for the Christian community, mysteriosophy would be indissolubly bound up with the personality of Jesus Christ.” —Rudolf Steiner

“Because I entered this world with defined soul predispositions, and because the course of my life, as expressed in my biography, is determined by those predispositions, as a spiritual human being I must have existed before my birth. As a being of spirit, I must be the repetition of someone through whose biography mine can be explained. In each life the human spirit appears as a repetition of itself with the fruits of experiences during previous lives.” —Rudolf Steiner

URING THE fall and winter of 1901, STEINER seldom spoke of himeself in a personal way, but Steiner gave a series of lectures called in his Autobiography we are offered a rare glimpse into some of “Christianity As Mystical Fact” to members the most intimate aspects of his inner life, his personal relationships, of the Theosophical Society. The lectures and significant events that helped to shape the philosopher, seer, and were rewritten and issued as a book later teacher he became. that year. They mark a watershed in the This edition restores the original format of seventy chapters, just development of Western esotericism. as they were written for the Goetheanum This is a fundamental book, in Stiener’s own development, in weekly newsletter. This autobiography is that of Western esotericism, and for our understanding of the not merely a narrative of Rudolf Steiner’s Christ event. Readers will find the evolutionary development from successes and failures, but the story of the ancient Mysteries through the great Greek philosophers to the a soul possessed of a precise, probing events portrayed in the Gospels. scientific mind and a natural clairvoyant ability to see into the spiritual world. ISBN: 0880104368 Although naturally clairvoyant, Steiner BOOK (PAPERBACK) always recognized the integrity and STEINERBOOKS importance of modern scientific meth$17.95 ods, and thus he developed a modern 256 PAGES discipline he named Anthroposophy, or NOVEMBER 2006 spiritual science. During the century that followed the events recorded in this autobiograTHE ROSICRUCIAN UNITY OF SCIENCE, phy, Rudolf Steiner’s insights have touched and RELIGION, AND ART — OCCULT enriched numerous areas of life in ways that continue to transform people’s lives in the twenty-first The Rosicrucian IMAGES, SEALS & PILLARS century. Unity of Science, The Theosophical Congress This illustrated, revised, updated, and expanded Religion, and Art of Whitsun 1907 edition is the first volume to be released in The Occult Images, Introduction by Christopher Bamford • Translated by Marsha Post Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner. This series Seals & Pillars will gradually collect all of the English transla13 lectures, various cities, 1907–1924 (CW 284) The tions of Rudolf Steiner’s works—including many Theosophical Congress OPICS INCLUDE : • On the Munich Congress • Rosicrucian never before in English—into an attractive and of Witsun 1907 Initiation • Planetary and Human Evolution • Remarks uniform set of his written and spoken words.

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ISBN: 088010600X BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $29.95 416 PAGES ILLUSTRATED

Ton the Seals of Columns • Report on the Congress • Various

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reports and commentaries • The Apocalyptic Seals • Symbols and Sings and the Working of Chaos • Speech at the Laying of the Malsch Foundation Stone • In what Sense are we Theosophists and in what Sense Rosicrucians • includes illustrations. ISBN: 0880106115 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $40.00 DECEMBER 2006 ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOR PLATES

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NEW BOOKS

WATER The Element of Life THEODOR SCHWENK & WOLFRAM SCHWENK

THE GREEN SNAKE AND THE BEAUTIFUL LILY A Fairy Tale JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

“Water’s flow constantly links life and death. It is the mediator between the two, and its surface provides a common frontier in nature where they meet. Death is continuously being overcome there.”

the living movement of water that makes life on Earth possible. Based on spiritual science and on their own numerous experiments, Theodor and Wolfram Schwenk show that our Earth is a living organism and that water is its sensory organ that perceives vital cosmic influences and transmits them into earthly life The authors’ approach to the current water and environmental crises goes beyond problem-oriented and piecemeal, band-aid solutions; rather, they suggest that we need a new and radical understanding of water — that we must, in fact, attain a revolutionary new level of consciousness if the Earth is to remain alive and available to human habitation. This pioneering classic on water is more relevant than ever before.

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Theodor Schwenk (1910–1986) was a pioneer in water and flow research. He founded the Institute for Flow Sciences for the scientific study of water’s movement and life-giving forces. A well-known author and lecturer, he contributed original insights and methods to the production of homeopathic, anthroposophic medicines. He developed “drop pictures” for analyzing water quality and methods for healing polluted, “dead” water. Schwenk gained public recognition with the publication of Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air. ISBN: 0880102772 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 264 PAGES ILLUSTRATED

Illustrated by Hermann Linde Edited by Joan DeRis Allen • Afterword by Paul Marshall Allen OETHE’S FAIRY

tale is one of the most important stories of mod-

ern esotericism. It is a timeless, allegorical tale of initiation and G had a profound impact on spiritual teachers such as Rudolf Steiner.

He called the fairy tale a kind of “secret revelation,” an “apocalypse.” It begins with an image: a river separating two lands that contrast to each other, as do the sensory and spiritual worlds. The story ends with a bridge, created through sacrifice, that spans the river between the two lands. Rudolf Steiner was so deeply impressed by Goethe’s fairy tale, that he used it as the model for his first mystery drama, The Portal of Initiation. The twelve paintings in this book represent the soul experiences of the “Youth” in the fairy tale. They are the fruit of an intense collaboration between Hermann Linde and Rudolf Steiner, who commissioned the work. Steiner visited Linde’s studio every day and gave him detailed indications for various motifs. Once Linde had finished the original panels — done mainly in tempera — he planned to reshape the whole subject in transparent watercolor glazes, intending to follow Steiner’s suggestion of working wholly “from the color itself.” Sadly, Hermann Linde was unable to realize this intention; he died suddenly just a few months after the First Goetheanum was burned to the ground on New Year’s Day 1923. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) is a giant of German and world literature. The volume of work during his eighty-two-year lifetime is impressive, including a bestselling novel, volumes of poetry, and several dramas. He also engaged in painting and science, from which came his Theory of Color (“Farbenlehre”) among other scientific works , a collected edition that Rudolf Steiner edited and introduced as a young man Hermann Linde (1863–1923) was a classically trained painter. As early as 1904, he developed a relationship with Rudolf Steiner, who encouraged him to create a form of artistic expression for those on a spiritual path. Inspired by his experiences with Steiner’s ideas, Linde dedicated his artistic work to Anthroposophy. He participated in the creation of the stage sets for Steiner’s first mystery drama, The Portal of Initiation, performed in Munich in 1910. Later, during World War I, he helped paint the cupolas in the First Goetheanum. ISBN: 0880105704 BOOK (HARDCOVER) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 11 X 8 ½ 56 PAGES FULLY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR NOVEMBER 2006

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H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

NEW BOOKS

CHRIST

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SOPHIA

Anthroposophic Meditations on the Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocalypse VALENTIN TOMBERG Introduction by Christopher Bamford

astounding meditations

the true Christian nature of Itheonscriptures, Tomberg shows how N THESE

the entire Bible tells the history of the Christ being; describes the cosmic and earthly preparations for the Mystery of Golgotha, its significance and results for humanity and the world as a whole; shows the central role of the Sophia being and her relationship to the Christ, to the Holy Spirit, to the Disciples and Pentecost, and to humanity as a whole; and imagines the Grail nature of the Christ’s involvement in earthly history. At last, these profound studies are available in a single volume. Long out of print, this newly revised text includes Valentin Tomberg’s anthroposophic meditations on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocalypse. The appendix contains his unfinished work, “The Four Sacrifices of Christ.” Here are all of Valentin Tomberg’s essential anthroposophic works on the scriptures together for the first time. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual scientific approach to esoteric Christianity as revealed by a close, meditative reading of the Bible—from Genesis to the Revelation of St. John. Valentin Tomberg was born into a Lutheran family in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1900. He became involved with the Russian Christian esoteric tradition at an early age, having been strongly influenced by Vladimir Soloviev and a personal experience of the Sophia at a Cathedral in Holland. Under the auspices of the Anthroposophical Society (which he left around 1940), he lectured in Holland and England and wrote extensively on his esoteric understanding of the Bible and Christianity. He later converted to Catholicism, resided in England, and worked for the BBC, while devoting his time to meditation and writing. He died in 1973 while vacationing in Majorca. Tomberg was also the author of Inner Development and Meditations on the Tarot.

LAZARUS, COME FORTH! Meditations of a Christian Esotericist on the Mysteries of the Raising of Lazarus, the Ten Commandments, the Three Kingdoms & the Breath of Life VALENTIN TOMBERG Translated by Robert Powell & James Morgante

the ancient and often-forgotten sources of esoteric

Christianity, Valentin Tomberg reflects on the mysteries of D humanity’s covenant with God in history. The power of these mediRAWING ON

tations is that they reflect the author’s personal spiritual journey into the depths of God’s kingdom within — within the soul, within personal relationships, within nature and the cosmos. Part one, on the raising of Lazarus, looks at an encounter with God the Father through the miracles of Creation and the Fall and through Moses and the Old Testament Covenant and the Ten Commandments. Part two, on the Ten Commandments, is a meditation on the seven miracles of Christ as described in the Gospel of John, culminating in the raising of Lazarus, the miracle of being raised from forgetfulness, sleep, and death to remembrance, wakefulness, and resurrection. Lazarus thus becomes a paradigm for understanding the spiritual and cultural history of humanity. Part three considers the encounter with the Holy Spirit and living out the life of Christ through the Church. The union of love and prayer in the Holy Spirit is the focus of the first section of part four, “The Breath of Life,” in which we are invited to see our natural breathing as breathing the breath of God. And part four ends with “Natural and Supernatural Images of the Holy Trinity,” which discusses the message of the starry heaven at night, the message of the setting Sun, and the message of the birth of a new day. A previous edition of this work was titled Covenant of the Heart. ISBN: 1584200405 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $30.00 6 X 9 INCHES 300 PAGES

ISBN: 0880105658 BOOK (HARDCOVER) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $50.00 7 X 10 INCHES 472 PAGES

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NEW BOOKS

ONE LANGUAGE

HOW WIDE

Source of All Tongues

The Roots of Peace in Palestine and Israel

DR. ARNOLD D. WADLER

MARKO POGACNIK & ANA POGACNIK

“The book is one which cannot fail to be of the greatest use and interest to all whose concern is with the word as a means of approach to the spiritual world and to the history of the human being.” ––Owen Barfield

source of all tongues

times, we are

in the story of the Tower Fof told Babel, human beings have been ROM ANCIENT

ONE LANGUAGE

Dr. Arnold D. Wadler

separated by different languages and, consequently, different cultures. Over the centuries, this division has increased and the distance between nations and peoples has prevented true communication and understanding. Gradually, mutations of meaning within single languages have further isolated individuals from one another. Toward the end of the twentieth century, however, a newly intensified consciousness arose — one that sought the basis of a new unity. This has resulted in, among other things, the budding globalization of world societies, economically, politically, and culturally. Linguists and language historians have long searched for the source of our original unity — the one language from which we were separated. Inspired by a pamphlet on the origin of language by Hermann Beckh, and encouraged by his study of Rudolf Steiner’s works, Dr. Arnold D. Wadler began thirty years of devoted research into the tongues of various human families. In One Language, he lifts the veil from pre-Columbian America and reveals its place in the developing life of earthly human beings. Based on language and custom, ancient America can be seen as the key to the question of the common primeval tongue of the origin of humanity and modern civilization. His comprehensive grasp of the subject and his broad understanding of history, religion, art, and the science of language places this book among the classics of spiritual scientific literature. ISBN: 1584200464 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $29.95 6X9 324 PAGES SEPTEMBER 2006

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HEART

2001 Marko Pogacnik and Ana Pogacnik set out on a pilgrim-

age with a group interested in geomancy and lasting peace. They Itraveled along the archetypal path from the Pyramids across the N

Sinai Peninsula to Jerusalem. They visited the holy sites of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and by meditating and tuning in to the vital energies of those ancient sites they were able to decipher the emotional and spiritual dimensions of each location and put into place impulses for healing and regeneration. How Wide the Heart provides an overview of the planetary role and the true identity of the Holy Land. The authors affirm the capacity of the landscape of Israel and Palestine to communicate messages that have, so often in the past, been turning points for human history. The book also contains messages that Ana received from the deep source of love and wisdom, or “Christ energy.” Those messages encourage us to take a closer look at our lives and to follow our chosen path with increased awareness and equanimity. These communications also reveal important points in human history — moments that have determined our common path together and provide impulses for our future evolution. The main purpose of this book is to help us reestablish a bridge to the landscape. The authors describe ways that life energy is anchored in a specific energetic structure in the landscape surrounding the Sea of Galilee, revealing the important role that this area plays and reflects. Marko Pogacnik was born in 1944 in Kranj, Slovenia, and studied sculpting at university, later gaining an international reputation in conceptual land art. He has developed this further into earth lithopuncture, whose goal is to heal disturbed landscapes and power points. He leads seminars in earth healing in several countries and provides advice on landscape matters for communities and businesses. Marko is a lecturer at the Hagia Chora school for geomancy which was founded in 1995. He is also the author of the bestselling Turned Upside Down (2004). Ana Pogacnik, born in Slovenia in 1973, is an archaeologist and pianist now living in Munich. Ana conducts educational programs and collaborates frequently with her father, Marko Pogacnik, in Earth-healing projects throughout the world. In 2001, she founded the Schule “Wieder Sehen.” Ana has published numerous books (in Slovenian and German), in which she hopes to encourage self-development and a better understanding of the landscape. ISBN: 1584200391 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $20.00 6X9 216 PAGES

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How Wide the Heart: from the introduction

Ana Pogacnik and Marko Pogacnik of us, it is almost inconceivable

human beings are capable of vioTlencethatandwemutual contempt, yet they manifest O MANY

every day before our very eyes, and unfortunately with extra intensity and potency in the country the West calls the “Holy Land.” Our desire to learn about this country in greater depth — that is, to understand the causes and background of the conflict smoldering there — and the impulse to seek ways of achieving a lasting peace inspired a trip that grew out of the inner vision of our friend Gabriele Ulich of Berlin and took place around Easter 2001. The participants were a group of people interested in geomancy and peace-making. The archetypal route from the Pyramids across the Sinai Peninsula to Jerusalem led us past many of the holy places of three world religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity). Immersing ourselves in the essence of these sites also enabled us to decipher their vital-energetic, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. Tuning in to the locations and landscapes of several acupuncture points in the Near East resulted in personal experiences that sowed the seeds of regenerative impulses. Throughout our trip, we were fascinated by the country’s human diversity and the beauty of its landscape. Nonetheless, the book you are holding in your hands is no travelogue. In addition to profound personal experiences, the forces or aspects of the landscape that we felt privileged to encounter (and especially the interference between them) inspired one participant, publisher Peter Vieweger, to suggest compiling a collective journal by all the participants. He dedicated himself enthusiastically to this project and put a great deal of energy and attention into reading all of our reports, notes, rough drafts, and ideas with the intention of compiling them into a single text. When Peter crossed the threshold, the driving force behind the original impulse was lost and with it the possibility of pursuing the project as he had envisioned it. When a new publisher supplied a new concept based on two main texts, the actual physical journey and the participants’ reports retreated into the background and began to serve simply as the context for the book’s actual contents. After multiple attempts to incorporate all our reports into the book in journal fashion, several things became clear:

Mount Zion

the trip had left behind many important impulses in us participants; our common experiences had sparked points of light in all our lives; we had left traces of healing behind us in the landscapes we passed through. Nonetheless, the trip itself, as an accomplished fact, already seemed so distant that it would have been difficult to compile our impressions effectively. It would also have been a shame to pin down such a unique and spontaneous experience. In the end, a different book emerged. In it, the subject of the trip itself is subsumed in a holistic view of the planetary role and true identity of the Near East. In Part I, Marko translates our experiences of individual places en route to the insights and concepts that made this view possible and revealed the energy needed to access these places appropriately. “Appropriate access” is the portal that allows us to approach the essence of a place or landscape directly. An appropriate angle of approach avoids obstacles concealing the essential aspects of the place. In Marko’s experience, the “portal” to Israel/Palestine is the archetypal route from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula toward Jerusalem, the route first taken by the Israelites under the leadership of Moses and his brother Aaron. If we tune in to modern, holistic consciousness, this ancient route proves to be an inspiring opportunity to approach the geomantic and social layers that will ultimately allow peace to take root in Israel/Palestine. During our original trip in 2001, we made an effort to involve local people in our activity because we already knew that an impulse for peace can bear fruit only if supported from within and not merely transplanted from outside. In Sekem and Kiryat Tivon, we gave talks on the motivation for our trip and invited anyone interested to participate in our geomantic explorations of the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. In subsequent years, Marko conducted three Earth Healing workshops for Israelis, one in Jerusalem and around Mount Carmel (2002), one in the area

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around the Sea of Galillee (2004), and one in the Dead Sea area (2006). Marko’s experiences served as the basis of two new projects to promote peace in Israel/Palestine. These projects, which round out Part 1 of this book, will also allow you, our readers, to contribute individually to the collective search for peace in the Near East. The first project is a weekly cycle of seven meditations to promote peace both within the individual and in Israel/Palestine. It can be implemented in any given week but should always be started on a Sunday; meditations for each day of the week follow. The second project involves eight cosmograms developed by Marko to support the places of healing in the geographical area between the Pyramids, Sinai, and Jerusalem. These cosmograms actively embody the vital-energetic and spiritual foundations of the transformation that will turn the present waves of destruction into impulses for peace. We hope that you, our readers, will feel called upon to photocopy these cosmograms or reproduce them in artistic media of your choice and to find places to post them. In Part II, there is no longer any direct connection to our original trip in 2001. This half of the book contains the messages Ana received last year from the deep source of love and wisdom that we in the West call Christ energy. Ana’s text functions on several levels simultaneously. One level addresses us individually, calling on us to look more closely at our own life and to follow our chosen path with increased consciousness and equanimity. On another level, it takes life, lifestyles, the heart’s energy, and the power of the Christ to a universal level and shows them from a different perspective. A parallel level describes the process humankind has undergone in the course of history and reveals important moments in this process — moments that determined our common path, thus providing impulses for evolution as a whole. A “red thread” running through all of these messages is our connection to our religions and the interferences, complexities, and friction that result, as well as the danger that arises when we do not approach this connection as independent individuals. A subsequent section describes how lifeenergy is anchored in a specific energetic structure in the landscape around the Sea of Galilee, revealing the important role played and reflected by this area. This description reestablishes the bridge to the landscape as such, which is central to the book as a whole. •••••

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ever before. Can evil be defeated? Indeed, do we have the courage to even look at its root causes? Drawing on the spiritual investigations of Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo, and others and from his own inner work, Bruce McCausland takes us on a fascinating journey into the hidden recesses of this very timely subject, helping us understand and cope with today’s events and our daily lives. What is evil? What is its source or sources? How should we view evil and those who perpetrate it? Using what he calls a holoscopic approach, McCausland stresses the importance of how we look at a problem. Traditional means no longer suffice and have proven inadequate to the task. By its very nature, evil is illusive and fraught with emotion. These obstacles must be overcome if we are to succeed in examining this manifold menace in a meaningful, productive manner. But whatever we do, we cannot ignore it. The greatest evil, it has been noted, is indifference toward evil. McCausland discusses the sources of evil in the form of spirit beings—“spiritual adversaries”—called Lucifer and Ahriman. He explains how these two beings interact with each other and with humanity as the two extremes of evil, with goodness in the center. In the end, we discover ways to deal with evil, both as individuals and as a society. In today’s climate of fear and its exploitation on every side, the question of evil has become an urgent matter of human survival. Those who watch or read the news can use this guidebook to understand the forces at work behind daily events. It guides the reader through the confusion caused by evil and toward inner freedom. Bruce H. McCausland has been a keen student of the Western mystery tradition for more than thirty-six years and has conducted seminars and workshops on a wide variety of subjects. As a retired business executive, he is now an active observer of current events and enjoys reading his own poetry at local salons. Before retiring he was active in a number of roles, including owner of the Living Seed Health Center, a Toronto Health-food shop and bookstore; chair of the Michael Group, the Anthroposophic members group in Toronto; secretary of the Canadian Lorian Association; elected to Village council of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland; founding president of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association of Southern Ontario; and founding chairman of the Aurora members group. Mr McCausland is currently a director of the Western New York Holoscopy Group. ISBN: 1584200448 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $20.00 5½X8½ SEPTEMBER 2006

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A MEASURE

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ENDURANCE

On Steven Sharp

The Unlikely Triumph of Steven Sharp

From an Interview with Bill Manning

WILLIAM MISHLER

William Manning has been a trial lawyer for twenty-six years. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, less than two blocks from the Mississippi River, with his wife Ruth Mickelsen and their daughter Sonja Christine, both of whom are the passion of his life. Since 1973, he has been involved in Anthroposo¬phy, which has played a central role in his life.

“A Measure of Endurance knocked me down. I read it in two sittings, fascinated by its harrowing story and its tale of courage and integrity.... This is one of those rare books that prove once more the worth of human spirit, at its best, when most challenged.” —Kent Haruf, author, Plainsong

the remarkable, heartwarming story of a courageous teenage boy who, after being gravely injured while using a farm machine, takes on its powerful manufacturer and wins. Steven Sharp was a hardworking, energetic sixteenyear-old, growing up happily in a tiny farming community in the eastern Oregon high desert. His family was his harbor. Nothing pleased him more than the outdoor life and fending for himself in the nearby mountains. In the last hour of the last day of a summer job on a local ranch, his life was changed forever when a huge baler suddenly and mysteriously turned itself on and severed both his arms. Slipping in and out of consciousness and stumbling through a field, he followed a fence to a nearby house. Soon he was on an airplane and hoping time would still be on his side. His recover was amazing. He maintained his optimism and zest for living and returned to school, joking with his classmates to reassure them on what might have otherwise felt like an awkward first day back. Eventually, he was back in his beloved mountains, hunting and fishing with the hospital’s prosthetics and his own rigged-up equipment to compensate for his missing arms. He had always been convinced that the machine malfunctioned, but had no intention to seek redress — farm life has its risks and compensations. By a quirk of fate, however, a friend recalled a notice in a three-year-old magazine and he learned that others had been injured while using the same kind of machine. How, with the help of a brilliant and idealistic trial lawyer named Bill Manning — whose commitment to Steven seemed something of a completion of his own spiritual journey—Steven took on the multinational, multibillion-dollar company, withstood their counterattack, and emerged triumphant. A Measure of Endurance is gripping, poignant — a truly unforgettable read.

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my friendship with

Bill, he was aware of my case with BSteven Sharp, and when it was over ECAUSE OF

he asked if he could meet Steven. At the time, he was sort of thinking about writing a book about Steven. After the whole case was finished and settled, he met Steven, who invited Bill out to his home in Oregon. So Bill went to Oregon and met Steven’s family and friends. Steven and his father asked Bill if he wanted to go fishing, and Bill said, “Sure.” He thought they would go down to a stream to do some fishing, but he didn’t understand. They got the mules out — four of them — and went up into the mountains for five days. Here was a professor with a dictaphone and tapes, sleeping on a stone and drinking old coffee from old coffee grounds, and standing next to Steven Sharp. interviewing the young man as he was fly fishing. During the trip back on the mules, Bill was terrified, thinking he’d lose his life on some of the narrow ledges. When he got back he transcribed the tapes and wrote the first three chapters, and after various publishers bid for the book, he received a handsome advance from Knopf to write his first book. It’s really a fascinating story about Bill’s ability to listen and absorb Steven — this seemingly ordinary person — and find that he was an extraordinary hero. Before Bill met Steven, I was speaking with Bill after a study group, and I told him about Steven’s dream, or premonition, which I hadn’t told to anyone else. This intrigued Bill, because he saw that, from an anthroposophical point of view, Steven was foreseeing his life, as we all do at the beginning before coming into life — but we also continue to foresee it. And it was that one event that truly convinced Bill that this was a story worth telling. Being a longtime anthroposophist, Bill saw something that could speak to the anthroposophic view. [Steven] is now thirty, he doesn’t drink, he’s quite serious about his business of running a farm where he grows Christmas trees and some livestock. He also has some rental property that he takes care of, and has a few people working for him. But, when you meet him — both then and now — there’s this extraordinary depth of character. Bill touched on that, where all his friends come around for counseling, and when he was in the Shriners’ hospital — the way he was able to help the other patients; the way he was able to say in such a nonchalant way, “I am not my arms; that’s not who I am.” He understands what that means. It perhaps comes from his heritage of a very spiritual background, from his grandmother, who was a minister of extraordinary spirituality, and his very devout mother. At the same time, he doesn’t carry it on his sleeve; there’s just his enormous depth of character.

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The Scandal of Reason

R. J. REILLY

MARIA NEMCOVÁ BANERJEE

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Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason

masterworks, Notes from Underground and The Brothers Karamazov Her theme is the harm that reason can do to the human soul if it is divorced from the higher spiritual powers within it. The separation of reason from the other human faculties is a fundamental theme of Russian religious philosophy. Thus her understanding of Dostoevsky’s worldview is formed by the philosophical commentaries of Solovyov, Ivanov, and Berdiaev. In passing, she gives us a panorama of Russian intellectual life of the nineteenth century, showing how Dostoevsky was influenced by and reacted against such figures as Belinsky, Bakunin, Chernyshevsky, and Herzen. Banerjee has successfully accomplished what should be the final goal of such a work: to send us back to the masterworks themselves, which we will now reread with a deeper comprehension.” —Boris Jakim, preeminent translator of works by S. L. Frank, Pavel Florensky, and Sergei Bulgakov.

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Maria Nemcová Banerjee was born in Prague, where she spent her childhood. Her family fled from Czechoslovakia and lived in France for three years before emigrating to Canada. Maria Banerjee holds a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literature from Harvard University. A professor of Russian and comparative literature at Smith College, she lives in Northampton with her husband, the poet Ron D. K. Banerjee. Her published works include Terminal Paradox: The Novels of Milan Kundera and The Lime Tree in Prague, as well as numerous articles on Russian literature and philosophy and translations of Russian and Czech poetry in collaboration with her husband. ISBN: 1584200413 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $25.00 5½X8½ 176 PAGES NOVEMBER 2006

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book was first published thirty-five years ago,

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Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, household names. R. J. Reilly’s remarkably readable and perceptive book about the two writers and their two brilliant friends Owen Barfield and Charles Williams, was soon treasured by fans as the best book on their circle of writer–philosophers, the Inklings. The title Romantic Religion reflects Reilly’s premise that the four thinkers share a “matured romanticism.” For them, creative imagination is central, with literature and religion intimately related. Reilly devotes an insightful chapter to each of these writers and discusses their differences and similarities. Barfield fans will be especially impressed by the author’s ability to clarify Barfield’s condensed prose. In his compelling new preface, Reilly considers the changing reputations of these writers and their relevance for today. The book was first published during a war and horrendous societal dilemmas, similar to those that plague the world today. Now, as then, says Reilly, the four writers remind us of “the possibility of a higher and saner life.” They remind us that “if we belong to the party not of memory but of hope, it is because we are imaginative beings and can imagine better beings and better worlds.” This is the first study to examine in depth the theological and philosophic implications of the work of that remarkable group of writers now called the Oxford Christians. In focusing on the central religious concern of the group, Reilly provides an approach that is destined to become normative. With this new edition of Romantic Religion, this wise, penetrating picture of our own possibilities is placed before us once more.

R. J. Reilly, served in the army in Europe during World War II before receiving much of his higher education under the G.I. Bill of Rights. He received Ph.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Detroit and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He is a professor of English (emeritus) at the University of Detroit, where he taught for thirty-three years. He has written fiction as well as critical essays in American history and literature and is coauthor of the twovolume Barnes & Noble Guide to American Literature. He lives with his wife Lena in St. Clair Shores, a lakeside suburb of Detroit. ISBN: 1584200472 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $25.00 220 PAGES SEPTEMBER 2006

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A Handbook for Parents of Young Children SHARIFA OPPENHEIMER S WE witness the shifting of old forms that once stood as the foundation of our daily lives, parents — who must prepare the next generation to meet this changing world — have more questions now than ever before. Although our culture and the nature of the family may be changing, the atmosphere in the home continues to create the foundation of a child’s life. In Heaven on Earth, parent and educator Sharifa Oppenheimer reveals how to make the home environment warm, lively, loving, and consistent with your highest ideals. Heaven on Earth balances theoretical understanding of child development with practical ideas, resources, and tips that can transform family life. Readers will learn how to establish the life rhythms that lay the foundation for all learning; how to design indoor play environments that allow children the broadest skills development; and how to create backyard play spaces that encourage vigorous movement and a wide sensory palette. Through art, storytelling, and the festival celebrations, this book is a guide to build a “family culture” based on the guiding principle of love. Such a culture supports children and allows the free development of each unique soul. Responding to parents’ questions from more than twenty years of teaching, Oppenheimer has created a gift from the heart. This is a practical, inspiring resource that brings her informed, intuitive understanding of young children into the heart of the home.

SINGING

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ETHERIC TONE

Gracia Ricardo’s Approach to Singing, Based on Her Work with Rudolf Steiner HILDA DEIGHTON • GINA PALERMO • DINA SORESI WINTER

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Sharifa Oppenheimer was the founding teacher of the Charlottesville Waldorf School, Virginia, where she taught kindergarten for twenty-one years and served as day care director of the early-childhood program. She has helped develop new teachers through teacher-training programs at Sunbridge College in New York State and Rudolf Steiner College near Sacramento, California, and as a master teacher offering practicum and internship opportunities. She has written many articles on Waldorf education, helping the parents of her students create supportive home environments. Recently she initiated a home-based kindergarten program, The Rose Garden. Sharifa is the mother of three grown sons, who received Waldorf educations. She lives in an enchanted forest in Virginia.

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“Singing and the Etheric Tone dares to say what many singing artists know but is seldom stressed in vocal studios today, that singing well needs the involvement of the total human being: body, soul and spirit. This book helps us become conscious explorers in the enlivening search for a joyful, healthy production of tone. I recommend it highly as a wonderful companion guide for any professional singer, teacher or student.” —Wendy Hoffman, mezzo soprano, Metropolitan Opera Company, NYC “Finally! — a book that gets back to the simple basics of beautiful singing (“bel canto”). Singing and the Etheric Tone is the book I’ve been searching for. It describes sensations I have had, but could not articulate, in a clear and accessible way. It has enlightened my own singing and enlivened my teaching of others on the path to good singing. Anyone involved in communicating the art of healthy singing should read it ... especially those who have gotten into the trap of over-intellectualizing rather than viewing singing as a natural expression of the soul.” —Valerie Yova, singer, choral conductor, teacher, and Metropolitan Opera audition winner

introduce a practical, joyful approach to singing that

its strength and inspiration from Gracia Ricardo’s work Twithdraws Rudolf Steiner. HE AUTHORS

Chapter 1 deals with the tone, the onset of the tone, the humming approach, and the relations between vowels, consonants, words, and phrases. Chapter 2 goes into the voice, how to build a voice and extend its range. Chapter 3 develops the idea of blending the vocal registers, the placement of the voice, embellishments, resonance, and diction. Finally, the book moves on to some professional tips on choosing a program, stage fright, mood, presence, etc. This book — long out of print — is an invaluable resource for any singer, professional or not, who wants to improve the ability to sing well by working with the whole body — spirit, soul, and the physical organism. ISBN: 0880103566 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $15.95 5½X8½ 96 PAGES AUGUST 2006

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AN INTRODUCTION

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ANTHROPOSOPHY

Rudolf Steiner’s World View L. FRANCIS EDMUNDS

parents send their children to

Waldorf schools around the world, and bioTdynamic farming and anthroposophic medical HOUSANDS OF

movements are growing quickly. Nonetheless, few are aware of the richness of Steiner’s spiritual science. His contribution to human knowledge was based on his ability to conduct spiritual research, through which he investigated the metaphysical dimensions of existence. With his scientific and philosophical training, he brought a new systematic discipline to the field through conscious methods that gave comprehensive results. Francis Edmunds’ introduction—revised and updated—covers the fundamental aspects of Steiner’s philosophy, beginning with a brief outline of his life. Edmunds describes spiritual science as a “way to higher knowledge” and outlines the threefold human being. He also delves into the secrets of human evolution and history, the fundamental elements of child development, and numerous other aspects of Steiner’s vast teachings. This is a warm and clear introduction to Anthroposophy that will prove valuable to anyone who wants a better understanding of Rudolf Steiner’s work. L. Francis Edmunds began his studies as a medical student, but the driving force in his life was a quest for insight into the nature of the human being. This journey led him to Anthroposophy and his vocation as a teacher. In 1962 he founded Emerson College, an adult educational establishment based on Rudolf Steiner’s work. He traveled and lectured extensively around the world, and authored the perennially popular Introduction to Steiner Education. Francis Edmunds died in 1989. ISBN: 1855841630 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $18.00 208 PAGES

COSMIC MEMORY The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Division of the Sexes RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Paul Marshall Allen Written 1904-1908 (CW 11)

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THE INCARNATION

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The Embodiment of Evil on Earth RUDOLF STEINER

a significant figure of Persian

mythology. Rudolf Steiner spoke of A Ahriman as a real, living spiritual entity. HRIMAN IS

Ahriman, he tells us, works to embed human beings firmly into their physical nature, thus encouraging dull, materialistic attitudes and a coarse, dry intellect. In these extraordinary lectures, Steiner assumes a rare prophetic mode. He speaks of an actual incarnation of Ahriman on Earth and the potential consequences of that event. Just as Christ incarnated in a physical body, so would Ahriman incorporate in the Western world before “a part” of the third millennium has passed. Steiner places Ahriman’s incorporation in the context of a “cosmic triad” that includes Ahriman, Lucifer, and Christ. Ahriman will become a counterpoint to the physical incarnation of Lucifer, which took place in the East during the third millennium b.c. The incarnation of Jesus Christ took place in Palestine as the point of balance between Lucifer and Ahriman. During the quarter century when Steiner was developing Anthroposophy, he spoke of Ahriman’s incarnation only six times. For the first time, these six lectures (plus a supporting excerpt) are reproduced in their entirety in a single volume.

best tradition of ancient wisdom

Cosmic Memory reconstructs, from Itheliterature, akashic record, events that span the time N THE

“root races” that developed the first concepts of good and evil, manipulated natural forces, laid the foundation for human legal and ethical systems, and defined and nurtured the distinctive yet complementary powers of men and women that brought humankind, many centuries ago, to its highest artistic, intellectual, and spiritual attainments. Through this discussion of our true origins, Cosmic Memory offers a genuine foundation for our lives, allowing us to realize our real value, dignity, and essence. The reader is shown our human connection with the world around us as well as our highest goals and true destiny. This is a key volume for understanding Rudolf Steiner’s early development as a Theosophist and how his ideas, terminology, and formulations during that time fit into the development of his anthroposophic epistemology and Christology.

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Goethe’s study of the relationships between art and nature, leading through architecture to the discovery of the metamorphosis of plants

A New Theory of Language CARL H. FLYGT Foreword by Madison Smartt Bell

DAVID LOWE & SIMON SHARP

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David Lowe was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, into a coal mining family. He went on to study philosophy and politics at Queens College, Oxford, and later took his M.A. in art history at Oxford Brooks. His time is taken up increasingly by lecturing and study groups in the United States and United Kingdom. The weeds in his garden in Oxford grow progressively taller. Simon Sharp is a teacher of art and design. He is currently director of the Leonardo Centre at Uppingham School in Rutland, England. He uses Goethe’s approach to observation extensively in his teaching and practical demonstrations. Trained originally as a designer, Simon believes in mixing art and science in his innovative teaching programs. He spends much of his time drawing and painting architecture and landscape.

social order was

Rudolf Steiner’s conception of an Tarchetypal social organization that HE THREEFOLD

their basis Goethe’s Italian Journey, the authors of this fascinating and unusual study explore how Goethe’s experience of Palladio’s architecture influenced his view of the relationship between art and nature and helped him understand metamorphosis, leading to his discovery of the “archetypal plant.” Goethe seems to oscillate between experiences of architecture and experiences of nature. In nature, he searched for the “archetypal plant,” the essential form whose metamorphosis through time would produce the plant we see in its cycle from seed to fruit. In the art and architecture of antiquity and in Palladio’s classical reformulation of it, he tried to understand the purpose and function of artistic creation. Until now, no one has put these two together. David Lowe and Simon Sharp show for the first time how these seemingly unrelated subjects are related—how the living geometries and volumes of harmoniously proportioned buildings, the “great idea” of architecture, can lead to the intuition of similar principles in nature. David Lowe and Simon Sharp have worked together for twenty-one years. One of their first projects was the recreation of Goethe’s Italian Journey. They have given numerous workshops and presentations on the subject in the U.S. and U.K., including The British Museum, the German Embassy, and the Edinburgh Festival. This is must-reading for anyone interested in Goethe’s ideas on plants and metamorphosis. AKING AS

would utilize the norms of universal spiritual initiation, individual freedom, and the fundamental social law. A social science purporting to encompass these norms has yet to arise, but with Carl H. Flygt’s book, a step in that direction has been achieved. Flygt’s argument is that the phenomenon of conversation has an objectively treatable structure and, as such, can be held to standards that not only can awaken human clairvoyance, but can also liberate the emotions and the spiritual will and contribute to a cultural background that makes real community into an explicit and fundamental social value. Flygt’s treatment of language use and social background is penetratingly original, academically up to date, and anthroposophically convincing.

Carl H. Flygt is an anthroposophical psychologist living near San Francisco. Born and imprinted largely in Middle Tennessee, he became interested in the psychological and evolutionary significance of altered states of consciousness induced by exogenous agents, such as marijuana and LSD. Accordingly, he migrated to California where, in the cultural wake of the 1960s, the New Age movement was coming into prominence. His book on language is the outcome of twenty-five years of study, experimentation, and devotion to the ideal of a psycho-social unity devolving from the deepest wishes and dreams of which the human being is capable. You can visit his website at www..consciousconversation.com. ISBN: 1584200383 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $25.00 224 PAGES

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THE SECRETS

OF

METALS

WILHELM PELIKAN

light of spiritual science, Pelikan discusses the significance of the classic “seven metals” and their importance for humankind as well as for nature as a whole and the Earth. He also discusses the “newer” metals and the virtually unknown “radiation effects of metals—effects that Rudolf Steiner employed therapeutically. Pelikan’s method here is a phenomenological one, in which he helps us try to see natural objects in the Goethean sense, as developed by Rudolf Steiner (see, for example Nature’s Open Secret). Here is a classic text for understanding metals more deeply as a whole and for gaining a fuller appreciation of spiritual scientific research methods in relation to the world we inhabit.

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Wilhelm Pelikan (1893–1981) was born in the ancient city of Pula (now in Croatia). A chemist by training, for nearly forty years he was a director of laboratories for Weleda in Germany. He died in Silesheim, Switzerland. ISBN: 158420043X BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $25.00 5½X8½ 228 PAGES ILLUSTRATED

MEDITATIONS ON THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC JOHN JOCELYN

classic contains medita-

on each of the twelve signs of Tthetions zodiac. John Jocelyn uses traditional HIS ESOTERIC

astrological symbolism to envision a Christ-centered zodiac—one in which each of the signs relate to an aspect of the New Testament. This is not a book about astrology, but about the deeper meaning of the twelve zodiac signs. The author relates the zodiac signs to the development of inner Christ consciousness and encourages readers to meet their individual destinies more consciously and courageously and even with gratitude. ISBN: 0880105526 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 5½X8½ 276 PAGES

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THE NEW MYSTERIES And the Wisdom of Christ VIRGINIA SEASE & MANFRED SCHMIDT-BRABANT

old mystery cultures, indi-

experienced themselves Iasviduals “children” of the gods, or even N THE

as their instruments. According to Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science, the birth of independent thinking did not arise until our present state of consciousness—the awareness of one’s individual self. But who is this “I”? Virginia Sease and Manfred Schmidt-Brabant maintain that true self-knowledge is intimately related to knowledge of the central being of world evolution—Christ, the “I AM.” Focusing on the being of Christ and on Christianity, the authors present a series of engaging lectures on the development of mystery wisdom today. Having given an overview of the history of the mysteries in their book Paths of the Christian Mysteries, the authors deepen and expand their study by drawing particular attention to the effect of the “Christ mysteries.” Some of the essential themes of this new volume include the transformation of conscience, the place of prayer and meditation, and the significance of sacrifice today.

Virginia Sease was born in Pennsylvania and earned her doctorate in German from the University of Southern California. She taught in a university and a Waldorf school in Los Angeles and has been a member of the Executive Council of the Goetheanum since 1984. She directs the English language Anthroposophical Studies Program at the Goetheanum. Manfred Schmidt-Brabant was born in Berlin in 1926. In 1975 he became a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, and served as Chair of the Council from 1984 until his death in 2001. His service during those years included leadership of the Social Science Section of the School of Spiritual Science, and he lectured around the world on many subjects. He was the author of several books that have been published in English. ISBN: 1902636740 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $29.00 5½X8½ 208 PAGES

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WHAT

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ANTHROPOSOPHY?

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF Translated by Simon Blaxland de Lange

works on this theme, Sergei Prokofieff ’s short book is really more of a personal work than it is an introduction to Anthroposophy. The author presupposes the reader’s familiarity with the basic principles of Anthroposophy and focuses on the central Christological insights that make up the core of Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy. What is Anthroposophy? is personal in the sense that it reflects one individual’s efforts to build a connection to Anthroposophy. As Prokofieff states in his preface, “As soon as we comprehend Anthroposophy as something living, we are concerned not merely with defining it intellectually but, rather, with developing a real relationship to it.” He continues, “The content [of this book] will probably reveal more about the author and his relationship to Anthroposophy than about [Anthroposophy] itself, for its nature is basically beyond description and consequently evades any purely intellectual definition.” This is a valuable addition to the body of secondary literature on Anthroposophy from an established and well-respected author on the subject. Contents: 1. Anthroposophy and the Riddle of Man 2. The Anthroposophical Path of Knowledge 3. Ego-Consciousness and the Mystery of Golgotha 4. Rudolf Steiner’s Path of Development 5. The Being of the Christ and the Mystery of Man

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Sergei O. Prokofieff was born in Moscow in 1954, where he studied fine arts and painting at the Moscow School of Art. At an early age he came across the work of Rudolf Steiner and soon realized that his life was to be dedicated to the Christian path of esoteric knowledge. He wrote his first book, Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries while living in Soviet Russia, and it was published in Germany in 1982. After the fall of Communism, he became a co-founder of the Anthroposophical Society in Russia. He currently works for the Society in Russia and as a writer and lecturer worldwide. ISBN: 1902636783 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $15.00 5½X8½ 48 PAGES JULY 2006

N o w i n Pap e r b a ck !

THE HEAVENLY SOPHIA AND THE BEING ANTHROPOSOPHIA SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF Translated by Simon Blaxland de Lange

the author’s experience of the suprasensory being

behind Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science, this volume is the Bculmination of Sergei Prokofieff ’s twenty-five years of work on ASED ON

Steiner’s Anthroposophy. He shows that the being Anthroposophia is not merely a poetic image or an abstract concept, but an actual spiritual entity who works in the higher worlds to benefit earthly evolution and bring to humanity “the new revelation of the heavenly Sophia, the divine wisdom.” ISBN: 1902636791 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $30.00 5½X8½ 312 PAGES JULY 2006

THE TRANSFORMATION

OF

EVIL

And the Subterranean Spheres of the Earth SIGISMUND VON GLEICH Introduction by Paul V. O’Leary

after World War

II, von Gleich offers a powerful meditaW tion on evil and its eventual transformation. RITTEN IMMEDIATELY

Focusing on the realm of “subnature,” or “the subterranean spheres,” he shows how the various layers of the Earth’s interior are linked directly to the mystery of evil. The author discusses the mythical image of the underworld and describes the qualities of the Earth’s nine layers according to Rudolf Steiner. Finally, he outlines the the forces of “good” that oppose the nine currents of evil harbored within the Earth. In a new introduction, Paul V. O’Leary places this work within the context of today’s world. Sigismund von Gleich was born in Germany in 1896. While serving in the army he became ill with lung disease and during convalescence was given a book by Rudolf Steiner. He was soon immersed in Steiner’s philosophy, and became one of the most prolific lecturers and writers in the early years of the anthroposophic movement. He fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and, in 1953, died in Holland. ISBN: 1902636716 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $15.00 72 PAGES

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THE FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATION RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Michael Wilson 3 English translations with the original German (CW 260)

STEINER gave “The Foundation Stone

Meditation” as a central tool for developR ing the inner life of anthroposophic students. UDOLF

First presented during the reestablishment of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference of 1923, it is a powerful and penetrating meditative text that many consider to be a key to the spiritual mysteries of our time. This budget-priced pocket version features three alternative translations (by George Adams, Pauline Wehrle and Richard Seddon), along with the original German verses and an introduction by Michael Wilson. ISBN: 1855841738 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $10.00 4” X 3 ¼” 48 PAGES

CALENDAR

OF THE

SOUL

The Year Participated RUDOLF STEINER Translated by Owen Barfield

verses for each week of the year

awaken a feeling of unity with nature and stimuTlatehelpself-discovery and lead to a greater feeling of unity HESE MEDITATIVE

with the surrounding world. This budget-priced pocket version features Owen Barfield’s pioneering translation based on more than fifty years studying this text. As Barfield asserts, no simple translation can convey the real thrust of these verses. Because of this, he tries to “suggest” rather than simply reproduce the original in exact English translations. ISBN: 1855841886 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $8.00 3 ¾ X 5 ¼ INCHES 64 PAGES

HOW DO I FIND

THE

CHRIST?

RUDOLF STEINER 1 lecture (CW 182)

one find the Christ today? Steiner emphasizes the

H importance of working toward knowing one’s true self, or “I” being, the significance of experiencing powerlessness, and the OW DOES

In this important lecture, Steiner also discusses the ancient Academy of Gondishapur, the significance of the year 666, the mission of Islam, and the crucial consequences of the Nicaean Council of 869. ISBN: 1855841932 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $6.00 3 ¾ X 5 ¼ INCHES 64 PAGES

THE WORK OF THE ANGEL IN OUR ASTRAL BODY RUDOLF STEINER 1 lecture (CW 182)

that the angels — the spirits closest to

beings — are trying to create images in human Sastralhuman bodies. Such images are given for the purpose of TEINER REVEALS

bringing about “definite conditions in the social life of the future,” related to brotherhood, religious freedom, and conscious spirituality. Other spiritual beings, however, work in opposition to the angels. If, because of their disruption, humanity sleeps though the angels’ spiritual revelation, the consequences will be dire, leading to the manifestation of sexual aberrations, the misuse of medicine, and the misapplication of mechanical and technological forces. ISBN: 1855841983 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $6.00 3 ¾ X 5 ¼ INCHES 48 PAGES

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US

RUDOLF STEINER 1 lecture (CW 182)

important lecture, Rudolf Steiner clearly

describes life after death and explains how those on the IEarth can maintain a connection with loved ones who N THIS

have passed on. He describes the conditions in the environment of the dead; both the advantages and the dangers of connecting with the dead; the important moments of waking up and going to sleep; the significance of dying in childhood or in old age; and the appropriateness of various kinds of funeral services. ISBN: 1855841045 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $6.00 3 ¾ X 5 ¼ INCHES 48 PAGES

eventual resurrection from powerlessness.

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TRANSFORMING

THE

SOUL,

VOL.

1

THE KARMA

RUDOLF STEINER 9 lectures, Berlin, Oct. 14–Dec. 9, 1909 (CW 58)

SOUL,

VOL.

1

lectures were given in 1916, they

much to teach us about today’s political spin, Amediahavedistortions, propaganda and downright lies—all LTHOUGH THESE

delivered by the media on a daily basis. Rudolf Steiner’s calm, methodological approach penetrates the smokescreen of accusations and counterclaims, illusions and lies, surrounding World War I. From behind this fog and under the guise of outer events, the true spiritual struggle is revealed. Steiner’s words give the reader a deeper understanding of the politics and world conflicts that confront us today through the filter of popular media. Amid the turmoil of World War I, Steiner spoke out courageously against the hate, lies, and propaganda of the time. His detailed research into the spiritual impulses of human evolution allowed him to reveal the dominant role that secret brotherhoods played in events that culminated in that cataclysmic war. He warned that the retarding forces of nationalism must be overcome before Europe can find its true destiny. He also emphasized the urgent need for new social structures in order to avoid such future catastrophes. Political and social changes around the world are moving at a breathless pace, hurtling us all toward an uncertain future. These lectures illuminate much of what lies behind today’s turbulent events and the scenes played out on the nightly news.

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VOL.

Introduction by Terry M. Boardman 13 lectures, Dornach & Basel, Dec. 4–31, 1916 (CW 173)

ness, to knowledge of spiritual realities. But, to avoid a distorted understanding and vision of that world, Steiner’s offers preparatory steps — the metamorphosis and purification of the human soul — required for achieving true spiritual enlightenment. Life itself teaches and prepares us for progress, and Anthroposophy explains and brings this to consciousness. Steiner describes the missions of anger, truth, and reverence; the significance of human character; the meaning of asceticism and illness; and egoism. He explains the differences between Buddhism and Christianity and the goal of spiritual science and, throughout these talks, refers to significant persons such as Augustine, Leonardo da Vinci, H. P. Blavatsky, Goethe, Homer, and Shakespeare. A previous edition of this work was titled Metamorphoses of the Soul: Paths of Experience, vol. 1. This volume is a translation of Metamorphosen des Seelenlebens—Pfade der Seelenerlebnisse: Erster Teil (GA 58).

TRANSFORMING

UNTRUTHFULNESS,

RUDOLF STEINER

key series of lectures on personal development,

Steiner explains that the central mission of spiritual Iscience is to enable people to ascend, in full consciousNA

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RUDOLF STEINER 9 lectures, Berlin, Jan–May 1910 (CW 59)

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refreshingly practical series of lectures, Rudolf Steiner speaks about the nature of the human soul and how it can be transformed and lifted to higher consciousness. He considers the spiritual significance of various expressions of human nature — laughing and weeping, sickness and health, error and mental disorder, positivity and negativity, and conscience. Steiner also discusses prayer, mysticism, the purpose of art, and the significance of language. Throughout these talks, he refers to many key historical figures, including Zoroaster, Socrates, Plato, Homer, Wagner, Goethe, Hegel, and Angelus Silesius. These inspiring lectures make up the important conclusion to Transforming the Soul, vol. 1, but can also be read independently.

Introduction by Terry M. Boardman 12 lectures, Dornach Jan. 1–30, 1917 (CW 174)

A previous edition of this work was titled Metamorphoses of the Soul: Paths of Experience, vol. 2. This volume is a translation of Metamorphosen des Seelenlebens—Pfade der Seelenerlebnisse: Zweiter Teil (GA 59).

offering much insight into today’s political spin, media distortions, Ipropaganda and downright lies

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Secret Societies, the Media, and Preparations for the Great War RUDOLF STEINER

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2, Rudolf Steiner takes these lectures further, again

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RAISING

THE

SOUL

Practical Exercises for Personal Development WARREN LEE COHEN

OWEN BARFIELD Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography SIMON BLAXLAND-DE LANGE Foreword by Andrew Welburn

world of rising tension and stress

it is not unusual to feel dominated and Ioverwhelmed by the life’s events. Here is NA

a practical guide to gaining a firm anchor and taking control of the situation. It is based on seven contemplative exercises as the author has interpreted from the work of Rudolf Steiner. When practiced diligently, these simple exercises — which may take only a few minutes per day — are powerful tools for personal growth and inner strengthening. The exercises in Raising the Soul help one maintain greater balance in emotionally charged situations; see the positive side of “negative” circumstances; open one’s mind; and develop an inner mood of gratitude. These exercises help the practitioner cope with the ordinary aspects of everyday life by remembering the significant details of the day, acting on one’s intentions, and thinking more clearly. Cohen presents a pathway to help us say “yes” to more of what life offers; we become more open to the abundance of life’s experiences.

Raising the Soul is organized so that each chapter introduces a different soul capacity, which in turn can be mastered. Topics include: review of the day; clear thinking; intention in action; balance in feeling; positive world view; open mind; and gratitude. Raising the Soul also offers clear descriptions of the exercises, a “plan of action,” and advice on developing and maintaining a meditative practice. Warren Lee Cohen is director of the Foundation Studies program at Emerson College in England. He teaches courses on inner development and on the arts and sciences. During his years of experience in practicing and teaching meditation, he has explored many paths, including Judaism, Hatha Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, and especially Anthroposophy. He is also the author of the children’s picture book Dragon Baked Bread. ISBN: 1855841096 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $20.00 5½X8½ 160 PAGES JULY 2006

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BARFIELD, philosopher, author, poet, and critic, was a

founding member of the Inklings group, a private Oxford sociO ety that included leading literary figures of the time: C. S. Lewis, WEN

J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Writing of their many heated debates, Lewis — who was greatly affected by Barfield during their long friendship — remarked, “I think he changed me a good deal more than I him.” Blaxland de Lange’s biography (the first to be published on Owen Barfield) was written with the help of Barfield himself, who, before his death in 1997, participated in numerous interviews with the author. Barfield also lent him many of his papers and manuscripts. The fruit of their collaboration is a book that penetrates deeply into the life and thinking of one of the twentieth century’s towering figures of Western culture. Blaxland de Lange studies the influences on Barfield by the Romantic poet Coleridge and the philosopher Rudolf Steiner, while also focusing on Barfield’s profound personal connection with C. S. Lewis. The book also features a biographical sketch in Barfield’s own words and describes his strong relationship with North America as well as his dual profession as a lawyer and writer. Simon Blaxland de Lange has worked for many years as a special needs educator. He is a prolific writer, translator, amateur musician, and gardener. Blaxland de Lange helped establish Pericles Translations and Research, Pericles Training and Work (for adults with special needs), and the Pericles Theatre Company. In 1997, with Dr. Vivian Law, he cofounded the Humanities Research Group and, in 1998, the British group of the Humanities Section of the School of Spiritual Science. He met Owen Barfield in 1979, and has been a student of his work for the past thirty years. ISBN: 1902636775 BOOK (HARDCOVER) TEMPLE LODGE $45.00 6 X 9 INCHES 356 PAGES SEPTEMBER 2006

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THE BIODYNAMIC FOOD & COOKBOOK

BEYOND

Real Nutrition that Doesn’t Cost the Earth

Working together for Sustainable Health Care

WENDY E. COOK

ROBERT ZIEVE, M.D.

about respect for nature, sus-

and spiritual ecology. But most of Ball ittainability, is about flavorful, nutritious, enjoyable food! IODYNAMICS IS

The Biodynamic Food & Cookbook is a rich book of information, beautifully illustrated and packed with delicious and healthy recipes. The biodynamic movement is supported by top chefs, master winemakers, and numerous celebrities — Prince Charles introduced biodynamic methods at his Gloucestershire farm. Nonetheless, biodynamic agriculture had a humble beginning in 1924, with a small group of farmers and gardeners who gathered to hear Rudolf Steiner give a series of lectures on revitalizing agriculture. It was a time of growing interest in industrial farming and mass production, and Steiner spoke of the need to preserve and nurture the qualitative aspects of food. He outlined an agricultural method based on a holistic perception of nature. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, The Biodynamic Food & Cookbook explains the principles behind biodynamic methods and places it in the context of food and cooking through the ages. Wendy Cook, author of the bestselling Foodwise, takes us on a journey through the four seasons with more than 150 delicious recipes based on many years of working with biodynamic nutrition. She considers the ethics of food, the foundation of a balanced diet, and conjures up the color and vibrancy of Mallorca, which has contributed so much to her personal approach. Included are supplementary sections on breads, sauces, salads, desserts, drinks, and much more. Wendy E. Cook is a writer and speaker on nutritional issues and author of the bestselling Foodwise: Understanding What We Eat and How It Affects Us. The first wife of satirist Peter Cook, she gained a reputation as a hostess in the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1940, she studied art at Cambridge where she met Peter Cook. Later they lived in London and New York, where Wendy developed cooking and entertaining as her creative motif. When their daughter Daisy developed asthma and conventional medicine had little effect, Wendy began a journey of discovery of complementary treatments and alternative ideas. She studied macrobiotics as well as Rudolf Steiner’s approach to nutrition and agriculture (biodynamics). Having discovered how life-changing nutrition can be, she devoted herself to cooking and teaching in clinics, communities, and schools. More recently she was resident at Schumacher College while simultaneously studying for a degree in Waldorf Education at Plymouth University.

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MEDICAL MELTDOWN

ZIEVE demonstrates that there is enough quality

health care and enough money to pay for it, that more D drugs and surgery is not necessarily better, and that the pres-

ent health care quandary does not need to be the way it is. But to see this and to change health care will require enough people to wake up, think outside the box, and take action. We are on a threshold. Health care as we have known it is dying. What we have come to see as “normal” medicine is not “healthy” medicine. To quote Dr. John Abramson of Harvard, we have an “overdo$ed America.” Health care today is a manipulated market, not a free market. It is neither effective nor affordable for most people in the United States. In both the public sector and the private business world, it is a top-down, overcontrolled system. This must change. Beyond the Medical Meltdown details how to create a bottom-up approach, which is necessary if health care is going to work for all of us.

Robert J. Zieve, m.d., graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and studied homeopathic medicine, anthroposophical medicine, and Neural Therapy. Dr. Zieve is an author (Healthy Medicine, 2005), lecturer, and practitioner of comprehensive medicine, homeopathy, European biological medicine, anthroposophical medicine, neural therapy, nutrition, and energy medicine. He was medical director of the Foxhollow Clinic near Louisville, Kentucky, and an affiliate of Paracelsus Klinik near Zurich, Switzerland. He is cofounder and director of the Pine Tree Clinic for Comprehensive Medicine in Prescott, Arizona (www.pinetreeclinic.com). ISBN: 0880105720 BOOK (PAPERBACK) BELL POND BOOKS $16.50 5½X8½ 104 PAGES

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DA

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The Last Supper A Cosmic Drama and an Act of Redemption MICHAEL LADWEIN

THE WILL

TO BE

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Michael Ladwein is an art historian and expert on religions who now conducts art study tours. He is also an author and translator. His published works include Chartres, Ein Führer durch die Kathedrale (“Chartres, A guided tour of the cathedral”) and Raphaels Sixtinische Madonna (“Raphael’s Sistine Madonna”). Visit his website at www.ladwein-reisen.de. ISBN: 1902636759 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $30.00 6½X7¾ 140 PAGES ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR JULY 2006

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trying to prove that we are free, Wember describes

a path that enables us to become free — one that depends on R one’s inner activity. We cannot become free, he states, unless we ATHER THAN

works of art have been created that we call “Christian,” but none has received as much acclaim as Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Art lovers venerate it for its composition and noble aesthetics, whereas, for Christians, it epitomizes the intimacy between Christ and his disciples. In recent years — following the publication of bestselling fictional narratives and dubious historical studies — The Last Supper has also become the focus of intrigue, controversy, speculation, and sensation. Recent restoration of the painting has exposed remnants of the original work and removed falsifications created by over-painting. Thus, for the first time since its creation more than five hundred years ago, we can contemplate Da Vinci’s masterpiece in its more or less original form. This lavishly illustrated, full-color book reproduces many details of the restored work, and the author turns our attention to newly revealed aspects of The Last Supper that lead to fresh interpretations. The philosopher Rudolf Steiner called The Last Supper the world’s most important work of art, adding that it revealed “the meaning of Earth existence.” Michael Ladwein sheds light on many aspects of the spiritual facts that can be uncovered in this immortal painting — one that has lost nothing of its urgency in our modern world. ANY GREAT

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A Philosophy for Young People

enliven our volitional forces. The author brings his ideas to life by relating them to practical, everyday situations. He offers real assistance to anyone who is searching for the next step in personal development. It is ideal for young people (for whom it is primarily written) and provides useful stimulation for those interested in philosophical and life questions. Dr. Valentin Wember is a SteinerWaldorf school teacher in Stuttgart, Germany and a writer and lecturer. ISBN: 1902636082 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $13.00 64 PAGES

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FOR

RHYTHMICAL EINREIBUNGEN

According to Wegman / Hauschka EDITED BY MONICA LAYER

EINREIBUNGEN are gentle

forms of therapeutic massage that R can be used by nurses, caregivers, and HYTHMIC

therapists familiar with the methods and principles of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science. The German word Einreibung refers to the application of oil or ointment to the body. This clear, comprehensive manual is intended for all those who wish to use rhythmical Einreibungen professionally or to renew and deepen their knowledge; those who have had some training in the field and want to deepen their knowledge; those who teach rhythmical Einreibungen; and those who would like an in-depth introduction to this effective healing method. ISBN: 1902636767 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $40.00 6 ½ X 9 ¾ INCHES 176 PAGES 8 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS AUGUST 2003

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SEKEM

MYTH

A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert

The Virgin Birth Re-examined

OF THE

NATIVITY

ANDREW WELBURN

DR. IBRAHIM ABOULEISH Illustrator Markus Kirchgessner

EGYPTIAN desert can be a hos-

tile place, yet in 1977, Dr. Ibrahim TAbouleish founded a new agricultural HE

and social settlement on seventy hectares of desert land in Belbes, 60 kilometers northeast of Cairo. Thus, the Sekem initiative was born. Dr. Abouleish’s goal was to build a new type of community. His vision was for a farm that grows biodynamic crops and plants out of the harsh desert sand and a community in which workers and residents are all given holistic primary health care and where their children can be well educated in the sciences. This was to become a place that would sell its produce and become self-sufficient and self-sustaining. Ultimately, this would be a place where Islam and Western technology could come together in harmony. This book—as well as the very community itself—asks and seeks to answer questions such as: How can an efficient economy, a healthy social fabric, and a living culture develop together? How can partnership between West and East build peace and prosperity? What is the modern understanding and practice of Islam? Nearly thirty years after its inception, Sekem has grown strong and prosperous, both economically and socially. In 1981, the people of this community shipped their first medicinal herbs to the U.S., and by 2004, they oversaw a network of more than 800 farms in Egypt and the Sudan, producing high quality organic crops, herbs, fruits, and vegetables. The community’s mobile health units work with local rural populations, and real social change has been the results of its efforts In 2003, Sekem was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize, the Right Livelihood Award as “a business model for the twenty-first century,” combining social and cultural development with commercial success. The public recognized Sekem’s activities as offering answers to significant questions of our time in the Arab world. This is the story of Sekem—the original vision, the challenges and hard work, and the eventual successes—in Ibrahim Abouleish’s own words. Stunningly illustrated with color photographs throughout.

Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish was born in Egypt in 1937. He studied medicine and worked in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland before founding the Sekem initiative in 1977. In 2004 he was named as one of the world’s Ten Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs by the Schwab Foundation. Go to www.sekem.com for more information. Markus Kirchgessner is a professional photographer from Germany. He has traveled widely in the Islamic world and has had several solo exhibitions.

Lamech “was afraid of him and fled and ... said: I have begotten a strange son; he is not like a human being, but like the children of the angels.” (1 Enoch from the Dead Sea Scrolls)

and birth of Jesus is one of the most mysterious

challenging stories in the Gospels, surrounded by many signs Tandandmiracles. Is it possible to understand the virgin birth in a way HE CONCEPTION

that is both true to its origins and meaningful for today? In this carefully researched study, Andrew Welburn states that we must re-imagine the events of the virgin birth through the eyes of the Gospel writers. He explores many parallel stories and prototypical characters drawn from the ancient traditions of Judaism, Persia, Egypt, and Rome—all of which could have been known to the early Christian writers. Stories of unusual children with mysterious parenthood have, in fact, long inspired human beliefs and storytelling, and most of this has been lost to modern exoteric Christianity and theology. Welburn concludes that the virgin birth is part of a much greater story and a synthesis of many traditions, and that it stands, above all, for a promise of spiritual rebirth. This unique book is for anyone interested in the beginnings and the future of the Christianity. CONTENTS: 1. Memoirs of Joseph and Mary? 2. The Shocking Truth 3. Jesus as Noah 4. A Near Miss and the Wrong Virgin 5. The Christmas Gospel 6. The Son of God 7. Virgin Birth: The Mystery Andrew Welburn is a fellow of New College, Oxford. He has written, translated, and edited numerous books on spiritual science and early Christianity. ISBN: 086315543X BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 224 PAGES

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Foundational Works by Rudolf Steiner STEINER considered several of his written works fundamental to the recovery of human

R dignity, freedom, and wisdom. These foundational books contain the essence of his teachings. UDOLF

HOW

TO

KNOW HIGHER WORLDS

A Modern Path of Initiation Translated by Christopher Bamford Written 1904–1905 (CW 10)

the classic account of the modern

TWestern esoteric path of initiation made public HIS IS

by Steiner in 1904. He begins with the premise that “the capacities by which we can understand the higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.” Steiner carefully and precisely leads the reader from the cultivation of the fundamental soul attitudes of reverence and inner tranquility to the development of inner life through the stages of preparation, illumination, and initiation. He provides practical exercises of inner and outer observation and moral development. By patiently and persistently following his guidelines, new “organs” of soul and spirit begin to form, which reveal the contours of the higher worlds thus far concealed from us. ISBN: 0880103728 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS, CLASSICS IN ANTHROPOSOPHY $16.95 288 PAGES

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AVAILABLE AS :

KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS AND ITS ATTAINMENT Translated by George Metaxa Revised by Henry Monges &Lisa D. Monges ISBN: 088010046X BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $14.95 288 PAGES

KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS How Is It Achieved? Translated by John Davy, & D. S. Osmond ISBN: 1855841436 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $17.95 224 PAGES

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INTUITIVE THINKING AS A SPIRITUAL PATH A Philosophy of Freedom Introduced by Gertrude Reif Hughes Translated by Michael Lipson Written 1894 (CW 4)

Steiner’s works, this is the one he believed would have the longest life and the greatest spiritual and cultural consequences.This seminal work asserts that free spiritual activity — the human ability to think and act independently of physical nature — is the appropriate path for people today who wish to gain true knowledge of themselves and the universe. This is not abstract philosophy; it is a warm, heart-oriented guide to the practice and experience of “living thinking.” Readers will not find abstract philosophy here, but a step-by-step account of how a person may come to experience living, intuitive thinking — “the conscious experience of a purely spiritual content.” During the past hundred years since it was written, many have tried to discover this “new thinking” that could help us understand the various spiritual, ecological, social, political, and philosophical issues facing us. But only Rudolf Steiner laid out a path that leads from ordinary thinking to the level of pure spiritual activity — intuitive thinking — in which we are participants in the creation and redemption of the world.

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THE PHILOSOPHY

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FREEDOM

The Basis for a Modern World Conception Written 1894 (CW 4) Translated by Michael Wilson ISBN: 1855840820 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $16.95 264 PAGES

THEOSOPHY An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos Translated by Catherine E. Creeger Written 1904 (CW 9)

“This book cannot be read the way people ordinarily read books in this day and age. In some respects, its readers will have to work their way through each page, and even each single sentence, the hard way. This was done deliberately; it is the only way this book can become what it is intended to be for the reader. Simply reading it through is as good as not reading it at all. The spiritual scientific truths it contains must be experienced; that is the only way they can be of value.” — Rudolf Steiner

for anyone looking for a solid

A foundation in spiritual reality. Steiner presents a comprehensive understanding of KEY WORK

human nature — from the physical body and the soul to our central spirit being. He also provides an extraordinary overview of the laws of reincarnation and karma and the various ways we live within the three worlds of body, soul, and spirit, describing the path of knowledge through which each of us can begin to understand the marvelously harmonious and complex worlds of soul and spirit. Theosophy is the work by Rudolf Steiner that one should read first for a real understanding of the truths behind Anthroposophy. ISBN: 0880103736 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 256 PAGES

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THEOSOPHY

An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man RUDOLF STEINER Translated by A. P. Shepherd ISBN: 1855841312 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $20.00 160 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

AN OUTLINE

OF

ESOTERIC SCIENCE

Translated by Catherine E. Creeger Written 1910 (CW 13)

of

esotericism places Thumankind at the very HIS MASTERWORK

heart of the vast, invisible processes of cosmic evolution. When we use the term “natural science,” don’t we mean that we are dealing with human knowledge of nature? This masterpiece of esotericism, the results of those efforts, is as vital and relevant now as it was when first published in 1910. It remains the most comprehensive and effective presentation of a spiritual alternative to contemporary materialist cosmologies and the Darwinian view of human nature and evolution. In this essential work of spiritual science, we see how the creation and evolution of humanity is embedded in the heart of the vast, invisible web of interacting cosmic beings, through whom the alchemical processes of cosmic evolution continue to unfold. Included are descriptions of the various bodies of the human being, their relationship to sleep and death, and a detailed, practical guide to methods and exercises, including the “Rose Cross Meditation,” through which we can attain initiation knowledge. Perhaps most remarkable and revolutionary of all is the central function that Steiner allots to the Christ and his entrance into earthly evolution through the Mystery of Golgotha. ISBN: 0880104090 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $19.95 448 PAGES

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AVAILABLE AS :

OCCULT SCIENCE

An Outline Translated by George Adams & Mary Adams ISBN: 1855841363 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 352 PAGES

The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy APPROACHES

TO

ANTHROPOSOPHY

RUDOLF STEINER 2 lectures, Basel, Jan. & Oct. 1916 (CW 35)

intro-

duction to spiritual A science. Steiner states that N EXCELLENT

Anthroposophy is neither spiritualism nor a revival of ancient esoteric teachings, but a genuinely modern spiritual teaching for Western humanity, using scientific methods to investigate spiritual realities by awakening higher perception. ISBN: 1855841517 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $16.95 72 PAGES

THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL His Mission and Ours

Rudolf Steiner Selected by Christopher Bamford

1879, the Archangel Michael resumed direction of earthly evolution. Steiner articulated Michael’s hope for humanity and his future tasks: the development of courage, the affirmation of individuality, the transformation of knowledge, perception of nature and the cosmos, the creation of a true world culture, and cognition of Christ. Includes early lectures about the event of 1879, Michael and Christ, Michael as Archangel and Time Spirit, and Michael and the fall of the spirits of darkness. Also includes “The Mission of the Archangel Michael,” a selection from the “Michael Letters,” and an extract of Steiner’s last address.

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AT HOME

IN THE

UNIVERSE

Exploring Our Suprasensory Nature RUDOLF STEINER 5 talks, The Hague Nov.13–18, 1923 (CW 231) Introduction & Afterword by Paul Margulies

to being at

in the universe Tis tohome comprehend the HE KEY

significance of our individual lives on Earth and after we leave the physical world. Steiner describes our journey after death and its consequences for our future. He shows us how our character and actions on Earth affect us after we die and how those experiences shape our next physical life. Includes exercises that help us explore our suprasensory human nature, so that we can begin to act more consciously by recognizing the real nature of morality and the consequences of our present lives. ISBN: 0880104732 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.00 144 PAGES

ANTHROPOSOPHY

IN

EVERYDAY LIFE

Practical Training in Thought Overcoming Nervousness Facing Karma The Four Temperaments RUDOLF STEINER

Steiner’s

F best-loved lectures are collected in this OUR OF

book — perhaps the most accessible presentations of Anthroposophy available in English. With its many practical exercises, mantras, and meditations, this book is a fundamental introduction for anyone beginning or needing encouragement along the path of inner development. ISBN: 0880104279 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 96 PAGES

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The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

LOVE

AND ITS

WORLD

MEANING

MATERIALISM AND THE TASK OF ANTHROPOSOPHY

THE MEANING

OF

LIFE

RUDOLF STEINER

RUDOLF STEINER

And other Lectures on Fundamental Issues

Introduction by Christopher Bamford

17 lectures, Dornach, Apr.–June 1921 (CW 204)

RUDOLF STEINER

STEINER did not often speak or write about love explicitly, love is at the very heart of his whole body of work and the foundation of his hopes for humankind and the Earth. Steiner teaches that, without love, nothing is possible; with love, however, we can do everything. Love is always “love of the notyet.” To love is to create; it is to selflessly enter the current of time that flows toward us from the future. This collection gathers all of Rudolf Steiner’s main lectures and writings on love—from earthly love to the nature and function of spiritual love. Chapters include “The Division of the Sexes”; “Lucifer and Christ”; “The Mission of Reverence”; “The Buddha’s Teaching of Compassion and Love”; “Faith, Love, and Hope”; and the title lecture, “Love & Its Meaning in the World.” Also included as an epilogue: “I-Feeling, the Soul’s Capacity to Love, and Their Relationship to the Elemental World.”

of human consciousness, Steiner says that the world ended in a.d. 300, when it became impossible to find spirit in nature. Since then, we have been living in an increasingly spiritual world on a disintegrating, dying Earth. Steiner shows a way out of today’s blind materialism and toward new spiritual perception and knowledge, which is the only way that we will find the Christ in our time.

7 selected lectures

IN THE

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THE BATTLE

FOR THE

SOUL

The Working Together of Three Great Leaders of Humanity BERNARD LIEVEGOED

thoughts about Lthreehisspiritual streams in IEVEGOED SHARES

human evolution led by Rudolf Steiner, Christian Rosenkreutz, and Manu. He explores their karmic connections and past lives, how these spiritual streams are active today, and the spiritual challenges we will face in the future. ISBN: 1869890647 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $19.95 142 PAGES

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WHAT IS ANTHROPOSOPHY? Three Spiritual Perspectives on Self-Knowledge RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Christopher Bamford 3 lectures, July 20–22, 1923, Dornach (CW 225)

explain why the path of Anthroposophy “unites what is spiritual in the human being with what is spiritual in the universe.” Steiner describes what happens when we die, showing the relationship between our physical life on Earth and the etheric, astral, and spiritual life of the cosmos. He also explains how physical lives are completely interwoven with cosmic existence, and how the “missing links” in evolution are spiritual in nature. He demonstrates the shallow soullessness of mainstream psychology and points out that the idea of the soul has been lost. In the third lecture, Steiner takes as his guide our three states of being — waking, dreaming, and sleeping — and describes what happens in these three states and how each is connected with our lives as physical, psychic, and spiritual beings.

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the meaning

of Life? Steiner disW cusses this ancient enigma HAT IS

with directness, offering profound and enlightening answers. He speaks on health, reincarnation, destiny, luck, and the trials of modern life. The variety of topics address practical and fundamental issues facing us in our modern lives: growth, decay and reincarnation; human participation in evolution; illusory illness; the feverish pursuit of health; luck; psychological distress and the birth pangs of the consciousness soul and how to listen to the spirit. ISBN: 1855840928 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $23.00 176 PAGES

MICHAELMAS AND THE SOUL FORCES OF MAN Rudolf Steiner

4 lectures, Vienna, Sept.–Oct. 1923 (CW 223)

were given during Steiner’s

visit to London after the formation Tof thefirstAnthroposophical Society in 1913. HESE LECTURES

Steiner speaks of a new kind of autumn festival, Michaelmas. Steiner introduces a theme he expanded on in The Four Seasons and the Archangels. ISBN: 0880100079 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $7.95 69 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINER SPEAKS TO THE BRITISH Lectures and Addresses in England and Wales RUDOLF STEINER

gives a picture of Steiner’s

lively approach to esoteric ideas while in TBritain. It gathers lectures, addresses, and artiHIS VOLUME

cles. Also includes a list of Steiner’s lectures and addresses in Britain. ISBN: 1855840472 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $30.00 320 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

RUDOLF STEINER’S VISION

OF

LOVE

Spiritual Science and the Logic of the Heart

Bernard NesfieldCookson TEINER’S VISION of love, the transformative power brought by Christ, unites the forces of the human head and heart, leading to the spiritual awakening of humankind. The author collects Steiner’s references to the “logic of the heart,” the meaning of love, and the supreme importance of the greatest of all acts of love, the Mystery of Golgotha.

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SELF TRANSFORMATION Selected lectures RUDOLF STEINER

exercises for breaking out of the ordinary consciousness and offers advice on the development of inner qualities such as clear thinking, inner tranquillity, and positivity, the necessary foundation for esoteric work. This essential collection will be an invaluable guide for all serious spiritual seekers.

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TEINER DESCRIBES

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THE SOURCES OF INSPIRATION OF ANTHROPOSOPHY SIGISMUND VON GLEICH HRIST, KARMA ,

the Archangel Michael, the

— whatever has been estabClishedGrail,on Sophia Earth from spirit will remain alive

only if it continues to draw nourishment from the original sources. Gleich, who bases his research on the work of Steiner, presents the fivefold stream of inspiration from the spirit world, which is the basis of Anthroposophy. ISBN: 0904693872 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $12.95 56 PAGES

THE SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION OF MORALITY

A STUDY COMPANION TO AN OUTLINE OF ESOTERIC SCIENCE

Francis of Assisi & the Christ Impulse

CLOPPER ALMON

RUDOLF STEINER Translated & introduced by Malcolm Gardner 3 lectures, Norrköping, May 28–30, 1912 (CW 155)

and

moral preaching canM not establish morality. Only ORAL TEACHING

by delving into the hidden secrets of life can we find its moral sources. Humanity has always manifested moral life. In ancient India, for example, morality lay in devotion to spirit; in early European societies, the cardinal virtue was courage. To understand the relationship between these, however, the evolution of consciousness must be considered. Originally, morality was a gift of the gods and part of human nature, but errors, deviations, and falling away have occurred in the course of evolution. Nonetheless, something divine still underlies human nature. Using Francis of Assisi as an example, Rudolf Steiner shows the sources for reclaiming living morality. In ancient times, some version of the caste system ruled. Then the Buddha came with his teaching of equality and compassion. This teaching was particularly suited to Eruope. Thus, “some centuries into the Christian era,” on the shores of the Black Sea, an occult school was established, where the Buddha’s teaching interpenetrated with the Christian impulse. Two streams flowed out of that school—the more Buddhist stream of equality and friendliness, and the stream of Christic morality. Francis came from the second school. Steiner explains how the spiritual world was connected with his coming. Francis exemplifies morality as the middle path. We see warrior nature transformed into an expression of mercy, compassion, and love. Steiner shows the transformation of the virtues through the evolution of consciousness and Christ’s incarnation and the Mystery of Golgotha. Since then, true morality works to build up Christ’s being. ISBN: 0880104252 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 108 PAGES

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“An Outline of Esoteric Science is Rudolf Steiner’s most complete and methodical presentation of the results of his own spiritual research. Written in 1909, when he was forty-eight years old, it represents his mature thinking, yet also has the careful structure and development characteristic of the work of young authors. The title points out that the subject of the book is just those realities and beings which are, at least initially, hidden from most of us. But at the same time, it makes explicit that this is not a collection of ‘tales of the supernatural,’ but a clear, conceptual, thoroughly scientific account of these matters.” —Clopper Almon STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

through one of

Steiner’s most difficult texts. Almon’s comAmentary is keyed by paragraph number to the text of An Outline of Esoteric Science, with themes and brief summaries of the main points; review questions; discussion questions; and observations on the text. ISBN: 0880104538 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 128 PAGES

UNDERSTANDING

THE

HUMAN BEING

Selected Writings of Rudolf Steiner RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Richard Seddon

SEDDON

brings together a selecR tion of Rudolf Steiner’s ICHARD

writings that illustrates his manifold talents and sure eye toward spiritual knowledge. Steiner was a pioneer in communicating spiritual wisdom that had, until then, remained largely secret and available to only a select few. He knew no boundaries to thinking, and he often declared that the world is far different than it appears on the surface. And he knew no limits in the spiritual worlds, speaking often of Christ’s ability to touch all of humankind with the greatest love and grace. ISBN: 1855840057 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $16.95 208 PAGES 27

The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

COMMUNITY LIFE, INNER DEVELOPMENT, SEXUALITY & THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthroposophical Society, Dornach, 1915 RUDOLF STEINER 7 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 10–16, 1915 (CW 253)

contains Steiner’s strongest statements on the issues of human relationships within a spiritual community. Occasioned by a scandal involving people influenced by psychoanalysis, these lectures are Steiner’s comprehensive assessment of Freud’s work and psychoanalysis as a whole. Steiner shows, our physical life, including human sexuality, has spiritual roots; and that looking to sexuality for the explanation of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction. He also makes clear that becoming part of a spiritual community, such as the Anthroposophical Society, entails special responsibilities and a new way of being.

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CHANCE, PROVIDENCE & NECESSITY RUDOLF STEINER

8 lectures, Dornach, Aug.–Sept. 1915 (CW 163) HANCE , NECESSITY,

and providence are Crelated to love, loyalty,

and grace. Into this central theme, Steiner introduces a fascinating description of the nature spirits, particularly the gnomes. He also relates his penetrating insights into the question of the death of children and the significant role this plays in earthly culture and the spiritual worlds. ISBN: 0880102624 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 148 PAGES HARDCOVER; ISBN: 0880102616; $20

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FREEDOM AS SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY EDWARD WARREN

of freedom is

Tincreasingly connected to economics, politics, and HE IDEA

religion. But what is freedom, really, and does it have a spiritual aspect? Observing Steiner’s wish that his main philosophical book (Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path) be reworked in every new generation, Warren treats this theme in a fresh and lively way. ISBN: 0904693600 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $17.95 96 PAGES

THE EAST WEST

IN THE

LIGHT

OF THE

Two Eastern Streams in the Light of Christian Esotericism, Part 1: Agni Yoga ROKOFIEFF EXAM-

P Agni Yoga as represented by Helena INES

AND

RUDOLF STEINER 9 lectures, Dornach, February, 1923 (CW 221)

a great differ-

ence between the “know Tyourself ” of the ancient

mystery centers and this phrase today. What used to be achieved after death must now be achieved in life. To reach higher stages of development after death we must become fully human in earthly life. This was not always so. The difference is the Christ Event that is the center of human evolution. Now we must experience the Christ in ourselves as light, life, and love. Adopting the appropriate cognitive path, we become citizens of the universe, rather than “hermits” of the Earth. ISBN: 0880102942 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $14.95 190 PAGES

EVIL

Selected Lectures RUDOLF STEINER

an

original and complex Spicture. He explains that evil TEINER OFFERS

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SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

EARTHLY KNOWLEDGE HEAVENLY WISDOM

HERE IS

and Ahriman—who work as forces that hinder our way. Paradoxically, we develop ourselves by confronting and coming to terms with such difficulties. Evil is thus necessary in human evolution, allowing the possibility of freedom.

arises when a phenomenon appears outside its proper context, enabling something initially “good” to become harmful. He speaks of the effect of particular spirit beings — especially Lucifer

and Nicholas Roerich. Relating the inspiration of Helena Roerich to that of H. P. Blavatsky and using Steiner’s spiritual research, the author pinpoints what he believes are the principal spiritual errors of Agni Yoga. He uncovers connections with Lenin and Bolshevik Russia, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Mikhail Gorbachov. ISBN: 0904693570 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $22.00 176 PAGES

ESOTERIC STUDIES The Flaming Word: Pioneers of Spiritual Science, vol. 2 MARIE STEINER

STEINER, wife

Mand close pupil of Rudolf Steiner, was a pioARIE

neer of spiritual science. This volume includes insightful forewords that she wrote for many of Steiner’s publications. They display the depth and energy of her dedicated spiritual work. ISBN: 0904693589 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $16.95 144 PAGES

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The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

ESOTERIC STUDIES From Mathematics to Star-lore: Pioneers in Spiritual Science, vol. 3 ELIZABETH VREEDE

VREEDE’S fascinating writings give a vivid picture of her complex personality. She writes with warmth and vigor on subjects as varied as star lore, pyramids, Michaelmas, anthroposophic group work, and mathematics. This book features many rare articles, reviews, and essays, as well as a biographical sketch. Elizabeth Vreede, ph.d. (1879–1943), was a close trusted student and associate of Rudolf Steiner, who appointed her to head the Mathematical-Astronomical Secion of the School of Spiritual Science.

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HUMAN

AND

COSMIC THOUGHT

RUDOLF STEINER 4 lectures, Berlin, January 20–23, 1914 (CW 151)

Can there be a true “science of philosophy?” How are we convinced of the truth of a viewpoint? Why do we find it difficult to comprehend views that differ from our own? What are the inner foundations for our own knowledge?

Pathways to Our Innermost Being PIETRO ARCHIATI

radical departure from the typical comparative study of religion, Archiati shows that the various religions represent stages in each individual’s path of development. In this sense the great religions create an absolute unity, not separation, through what they teach. Beginning with the Flood of Atlantis, the author places the religions in the context of human evolution, taking us through the development of Buddhism, Zarathustrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and onwards to the future of religion based on spiritual reality. For example, Archiati considers how the founders of the various religions are working today. Are the Buddha, Krishna, Moses, and Zoroaster doing and telling us the same things today that they were in the past, even though humanity has undergone considerable changes since then? Pietro Archiati was born in 1944 in Brescia, Italy. He studied philosophy and theology and worked for many years as a Catholic priest. Following a decisive AKING A

concentrated,

aphoristic lectures, Steiner Ishows that there are twelve N THESE

THE GREAT RELIGIONS

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encounter with the work of Rudolf Steiner in 1977, he worked as a teacher in a seminary in South Africa. Since 1987 he has worked independently as a freelance lecturer and author for a regeneration of humanity through a modern scientific awareness of spiritual beings and realities.

main philosophical perspectives, and that fruitful progress in philosophy depends not on defending one and refuting others, but in learning to experience the validity of them all. This method not only sharpens and makes our own powers of thinking more dynamic and flexible, but also helps overcome narrow-mindedness while promoting tolerance and understanding for others and differing ideas. Steiner goes on to show how our own perspective is also colored by a particular “soul mood” that influences the way we pursue knowledge and our lives in general. Several philosophers and their works are discussed in this way, illuminating their contributions to human knowledge. Through these insights into the real nature of human thinking, we may come to understand the nature of cosmic thought, which is brought by the cosmic hierarchies. This is an invaluable lecture course for broading the reader’s worldview and one’s acceptance of others and their views.

JUDAISM & ANTHROPOSOPHY Interfaces: Anthroposophy & the World FRED PADDOCK & MADO SPIEGLER, EDITORS

was initiated

by the Rudolf Steiner TLibrary, where the librarHIS BOOK

ian Fred Paddock long felt the need to make available cutting-edge writings by European anthroposophists. It examines the relationship between Anthroposophy and religion, between Christian and Jewish esotericism, and between Cabala and Anthroposophy. It also focuses on Jews in Anthroposophy — Martin Buber, Hugo Bergman, Shimon Levy, and Ernst Müller. The problem of anti-Semitism is explored by three leading anthroposophic thinkers. ISBN: 0880105100 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $19.95 128 PAGES

AWAKENING

TO

COMMUNITY

RUDOLF STEINER 10 lectures, Jan.–Mar. 1923 (CW 257)

STEINER

R presented these lectures right after the UDOLF

fire that destroyed the first Goetheanum. Given during the year before the Anthroposophical Society was reestablished, they form an important part of the history of the anthroposophical movement. Steiner calls for a “searching of conscience.” He explains that in anthroposophic communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our encounters with others, and he describes how the “reverse cultus” forms the foundation for a new community life. ISBN: 0910142610 BOOK (HARDCOVER) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 178 PAGES

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MAY HUMAN BEINGS HEAR IT! The Mystery of the Christmas Conference SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

suggests

the impulse of Tthethat Christmas Conference HIS STUDY

can be reenlivened today through conscious efforts to experience its spiritual essence. It offers ways to illuminate various aspects of the conference, the Foundation Stone, and its meditation. It also explores the link between the Christmas Conference and human evolution; the inner relationship between each anthroposophist and the Christmas Conference; and much more. ISBN: 1902636538 BOOK (HARDCOVER) TEMPLE LODGE $64.00 944 PAGES

THE CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE For the Foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society 1923/1924 RUDOLF STEINER Introduced by Virginia Sease Foreword and conclusion by Marie Steiner Conference & Lectures, Dornach (CW 260)

documents the founding of the General Anthroposophical Society. It is a complete record of that meeting plus Steiner’s description of the structure and organization of the new society. Includes the Foundation Stone Verse and a lecture on rebuilding the Goetheanum.

T

HIS BOOK

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WORLD HISTORY AND THE MYSTERIES IN THE LIGHT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY RUDOLF STEINER 9 lectures, Dornach, Dec. 1923–Jan. 1924 (CW 233)

It is a common belief that human consciousness, as we experience it today, has been essentially the same throughout the whole of what we know as history. In this challenging course of lectures, Rudolf Steiner suggests that history is truly seen only 30

by studying the differences in the human soul life during the various historical eras. Consciousness constantly evolves, and we cannot understand the present unless we understand its origin. Steiner surveys the development of memory in human evolution and how people saw themselves and the world in the ancient East and how that understanding manifested in the ancient mysteries and influenced modern spiritual life.

RUDOLF STEINER 6 lectures, Dornach, Jan. 4–13, 1924 (CW 233)

the changes in con-

for Western humanity since the Sninthsciousness century. The previous awareness of the

spiritual in all of nature disappeared and was replaced by today’s materialism. But esoteric knowledge was preserved by early Rosicrucian schools and alchemists and later occult schools of the 18th and 19th centuries. This leads to consideration of the inner training most appropriate for today — mastery of science and its transformation through individual selfdevelopment of inner capacities.

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/ THE LIFE, NATURE & CULTIVATION OF ANTHROPOSOPHY RUDOLF STEINER

brings

Stone” and “The Life, Nature, and Cultivation of Anthroposophy.” The first contains Steiner’s comments on “The Foundation Stone Meditation,” made during the reestablishment of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas

Christmas

D Conference, Steiner presented the “Foundation URING THE

Mystery Centers of the Middle Ages

HIS VOLUME

THE FOUNDATION STONE MICHOVEN

ROSICRUCIANISM & MODERN INITIATION

two clasTsics:together “The Foundation

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WILLEM ZEYLMANS VAN EM-

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TEINER DESCRIBES

Conference, 1923–1924. “The Foundation Stone Meditation” is central in the meditative life of many students of spiritual science. Part two, “The Life, Nature, and Cultivation of Anthroposophy,” contains Steiner’s letters to members of the society following the Christmas Conference. They contain thoughts and guidelines regarding the Anthroposophical Society and its members’ conduct in the world.

Stone Meditation.” During that week, he showed how elements of the meditation could be rebuilt into new meditations (or “rhythms”) that could be practiced inwardly. The author was present at that meeting and lived intensively with the meditations for more than thirty years. Gradually, Zeylmans began to make people aware of the germinating forces contained in the meditation. This seminal book has inspired generations of students of Anthroposophy. ISBN: 1902636376 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $19.95 128 PAGES

THE CHRISTMAS FOUNDATION Beginning of a New Cosmic Age RUDOLF GROSSE

an introduction to the spiritual and

historical conditions during the restablishH ment of the General Anthroposophical Society ERE IS

at the “Christmas Conference,” just one year after the first Goetheanum was destroyed by fire. The author’s purpose was to see Rudolf Steiner within the overall process of world history and so to recognize his spiritual mission while experiencing the nature of that important event. ISBN: 0919924239 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $14.95 158 PAGES

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The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

FOUNDING

A

SCIENCE

OF THE

SPIRIT

The Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom

RUDOLF STEINER

OPICS INCLUDE

some of

Rudolf Steiner’s most Tfundamental lectures on

HARMONY

OF THE

CREATIVE WORD

The Human Being and the Elemental, Animal, Plant & Mineral Kingdoms RUDOLF STEINER 12 lectures, Oct. 19–Nov. 11, 1923 (CW 230)

an extraordinary panorama of spiritual knowledge, centered on the human being as a microcosm of cosmic laws and mysteries. Steiner describes our relationship to three ancient representatives of the animal kingdom — eagle, lion, and bull — and to the cosmic forces that form them. He speaks of the plant and animal worlds in planetary and cosmic evolution and introduces us to elemental nature spirits, the beings behind plants and animals. Their relation to humankind is the harmony of the Creative Word. Previous edition: Man As Symphony of the Creative Word

H

ERE IS

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alchemy and the modern

of human wisdom today; alchemy and consciousness; natural alchemy: mercury, sulphur, salt; beyond nature consciousness: the spiritual goal.

spiritual science, offering an excellent introduction to the whole of his teaching as well as valuable material not found elsewhere. With precision and clarity, he discusses essential human nature in relation to the cosmos, the evolution of the Earth; the soul’s journey after death; reincarnation and karma; good and evil; and the modern path of meditative training. The emphasis throughout is on scientific exposition of spiritual phenomena. Previous edition: At the Gates of Spiritual Science ISBN: 1855840774 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 168 PAGES

The Evolution of the Mysteries

Tmysteries; loss of the divine, the alchemical quest; mysteries of the metals; the standpoint

14 lectures, Stuttgart, Aug.–Sept., 1906 (CW 95) HESE ARE

ALCHEMY

philosophical and scientific

training, Rudolf Steiner brought a W systematic discipline to the field of spiriITH HIS

tual research. A natural seer, he cultivated his spiritual vision, enabling him to speak with authority on previously veiled mysteries. These small books gather excerpts from his many talks and writings on various themes, and feature editorial introductions, commentary, and notes.

ATLANTIS The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge

the continent of Atlantis;

Tmoving continents; the history of Atlantis; the earliest civilizations; the beginning of OPICS INCLUDE

thought; etheric technology; Atlantean magic; divine messengers; Atlantean secret knowledge; the origins of the Mysteries; Atlantis and spiritual evolution; and more. ISBN: 1855840790 BOOK (PAPERBACK) SOPHIA BOOKS $15.95 112 PAGES

THE HOLY GRAIL

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CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ The Mystery, Teaching and Mission of a Master

the mystery of Christian

TRosenkreutz, today and in the past; the guardian of modern knowledge; ancient and OPICS INCLUDE

modern Rosicrucian teachings; Rosenkreutz at the Chymical Wedding and his cosmic mission; Rosicrucian literature. ISBN: 1855840847 BOOK (PAPERBACK) SOPHIA BOOKS $15.95 96 PAGES

THE DRUIDS

Esoteric Wisdom of the Ancient Celtic Priests

the sun initiation of the

TDruids; mysteries of ancient Ireland; Celtic Christianity: Druid heritage: spirit in nature; OPICS INCLUDE

the great mysteries: the mystery of Christ; the function of the standing stones. ISBN: 1855840995 BOOK (PAPERBACK) SOPHIA BOOKS $15.95 96 PAGES

The Quest for the Renewal of the Mysteries

THE GODDESS

opics include from the Mysteries to Christianity; death and resurrection in ancient Egypt; the miracle of initiation; the Mystery of Golgotha; the mystery of the higher “I” and the Holy Grail; the Grail and the spiritual evolution of humanity; the Gnostic crisis and the loss of the Mysteries; stages of evolution; archaic clairvoyance; the role of the Mysteries; the secret of evolution.

dess Natura; mediaeval thought and the Tschool of Chartres; the goddess Natura in the

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From Natura to the Divine Sophia OPICS INCLUDE

the rediscovery of the god-

ancient mysteries; the goddess in the beginning; esoteric Christianity: the virgin Sophia; the search for the new Isis; the renewal of the mysteries; the modern Isis, the divine Sophia. ISBN: 1855840944 BOOK (PAPERBACK) SOPHIA BOOKS $15.95 112 PAGES

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and informal discussions in these volumes took place between Rudolf Steiner and workers at the first Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. At Rudolf Steiner’s instigation, the varied subjects were chosen by his audience. He took their questions and usually gave immediate answers. The astonishing nature of these responses — their insight, knowledge, and spiritual depth — is testimony to Steiner’s outstanding ability as a spiritual initiate and profound thinker. Accessible, entertaining and stimulating, the records of these sessions will be a delight to anyone with an unbiased mind.

T

HE REMARKABLE

FROM SUNSPOTS

TO

STRAWBERRIES

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER 14 discussions with workers, Dornach, June 30–Sept. 24, 1924 (CW 354)

sunspots to strawberries! He discusses, among other things: Lemuria and Atlantis; Chinese and Indian cultures; raw food; vegetarianism; children’s nutrition; farming matters such as manure and soil; hardening of the arteries; the sense of smell; planetary influences; weather and its causes; creation of the world; origin of the human being; Saturn, Sun and Moon; Darwinism; Earth strata and fossils; Biela’s comet; star wisdom; evolution of human culture; lightning, and volcanoes.

S

TEINER DISCUSSES

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FROM CRYSTALS

TO

CROCODILES

RUDOLF STEINER 10 discussions with workers, Dornach, Aug. 2–Sept. 30, 1922 (CW 347)

volume, Steiner discusses speech

Iand languages; lefthandedness; dinosaurs; Lemuria; turtles and crocodiles; oxygen and 32

ISBN: 185584107X BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 192 PAGES

FROM COMETS

TO

COCAINE

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER 18 discussions with workers, Dornach, Oct. 19, 1922–Feb. 10, 1923 (CW 348)

nicotine and alcohol, the causes and timing of illness, pregnancy, vegetarian vs. meat diets, the human nose, smell and taste, eye and hair colors, planets and metals, mental illness, the ice age, the thyroid gland and hormones, beavers, wasps, bees, jaundice, smallpox, rabies. Previous edition Health and Illness, vols.1 & 2.

S

TEINER DISCUSSES

ISBN: 185584088X BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $30.00 320 PAGES

FROM BEETROOT

TO

BUDDHISM

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER

Christianity and Islam, Egyptian mummies, astronomy, Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Freemasonry, moon and sun religions, the Mysteries, the Trinity, Moses, Easter, the ancient cultures, Kant and Schopenhauer, and nationalism.

T

OPICS INCLUDE

ISBN: 1855840626 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $30.00 304 PAGES

FROM MAMMOTHS

TO

MEDIUMS

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER 16 discussion with workers, Dornach, May 30, 1922 to Sept. 22, 1923 (CW 348)

dancing and sport, guardian

Tangels, stars, Druids, Aristotle, Catholic and Masonic rituals, proteins, fats, carboOPICS INCLUDE

hydrates, salts, blood circulation, honesty, boredom, opinions, kidneys, plant and human fertilization. ISBN: 1855840782 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $30.00 328 PAGES

FROM ELEPHANTS

TO

EINSTEIN

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER 10 discussions with workers, Dornach, January 7–February 27, 1924 (CW 352)

elephants, ants and

bees, shells and skeletons, animal and D plant poisons, bodily secretions and nutrition, ISCUSSIONS COVER

potatoes, the human eye, fresh and salt water, fish and bird migration, clothing, opium and alcohol.

16 discussions with workers, Dornach, March 1–June 25, 1924 (CW353)

Answers to Questions

N THIS

carbon; ancient giant oysters; the Moon, Sun, and Earth; the Old Testament; the real nature of Adam; breathing and brain activity; dreams; sugar; the liver and perception; brain cells and thinking; illnesses such as cancer and its origin, migraines, and diabetes; the eyes of animals; Paracelsus; alcohol; and more.

ISBN: 1855840812 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 288 PAGES

FROM LIMESTONE

TO

LUCIFER

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER 12 discussions with workers, Dornach, February 17–May 9, 1923 (CW 349)

technology, the Earth, heal-

ing, color and illness, rainbows, childhood Tdiseases, seances, sleep, dreams, reincarnation, OPICS INCLUDE

and more.

ISBN: 1855840979 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 256 PAGES H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

The Life & Work of Rudolf Steiner RUDOLF STEINER & the Founding of the New Mysteries

CORRESPONDENCE & DOCUMENTS 1901–1925

AT

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

RUDOLF STEINER

investigates the deepest mysteries of Steiner’s life and the establishment of new mysteries on Earth during the twentieth century. He examines the physical and suprasensory aspects of the first Goetheanum, the implications of the Christmas Conference, and the Foundation Stone meditation, a legacy from Steiner to the Anthroposophical Society. This study is unprecedented in its depth and significance.

(CW 262)

presents his autobiography. It is filled with A recollections and insights into the significance

T

HE AUTHOR

ISBN: 0904693619 BOOK (HARDCOVER) TEMPLE LODGE $55.00 480 PAGES ILLUSTRATED

A LIFE

FOR THE

SPIRIT

Rudolf Steiner in the Crosscurrents of Our Time HENRY BARNES

today rec-

Steiner’s Fname,ognizebut Rudolf those who are EW PEOPLE

aware of him know that nearly all fields of life have been fructified by his insights — not abstractly or theoretically, but in a concrete way that changes lives. No wonder, then, that Steiner has been called “the best kept secret of the twentieth century.” Anthroposophy challenges and extends the underlying methods of modern knowledge and has inspired many practical cultural initiatives. In this biography, Barnes recounts Steiner’s dynamic life, given entirely to the service of humanity and to the spirit. Steiner is seen here as an active leader in the crosscurrents of history. ISBN: 0880103957 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS, VISTA SERIES $18.95 320 PAGES

both into

and the relationship between Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner-von Sivers through their letters. Subjects range from an esoteric view of human evolution to how to deal with problem personalities, as well as many discussions of organizational details. ISBN: 0880102071 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 340 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINER’S PHILOSOPHY and the Crisis of Contemporary Thought ANDREW WELBURN

STEINER cre-

R ated a vast legacy of practical contributions to UDOLF

DAWN

OF A

PERSONAL STUDENT

the development of the U anthroposophic movement NIQUE INSIGHT

THE

cultural, scientific, and spiritual renewal. And behind it all is a highly developed system of thought that addresses some of the most problematic philosophical issues. Welburn presents fascinating insights into the radical nature of Steiner’s thinking by examining his inheritance of ideas from Goethe, his attempts to break away from Cartesian dualism and Kantian idealism, and his challenge to the conventional framework of European philosophy. Andrew Welburn is a fellow of New College, Oxford. He has written, translated, and edited numerous books on spiritual science and early Christianity. ISBN: 0863154360 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $49.00 288 PAGES

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NEW AGE

RUDOLF HAUSCHKA

of Steiner, Hauschka

of Anthroposophy.

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RUDOLF STEINER

An Illustrated Biography JOHANNES HEMLEBEN

biography

light on Steiner’s Tlifesheds — his childhood HIS CLASSIC

and his youthful years as a respected Goethean scholar and philosopher in Weimar; his involvement in the Theosophical and Anthroposophical societies; the development of spiritual science; the creation of spiritual initiatives in art, the social sciences, education, medicine, agriculture, religion and architecture; the Christmas Foundation meeting. Also includes a chronology, personal tributes, an extensive section for further reading, an index, and sixty-nine photographs and illustrations. ISBN: 1855840936 BOOK (PAPERBACK) SOPHIA BOOKS $22.00 216 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINER An Introduction to His Spiritual World-View ROY WILKINSON

succinct summaries of Steiner’s

thinking — now gathered into a single Ivolume — we are introduced to aspects of this N THESE

philosophy. Twelve chapters cover Steiner as the herald of a new age; reincarnation and karma; the spiritual nature of human beings; the development of human consciousness; cosmic and human evolution; relationships between the living and those who have died; evil; a modern path of initiation; life between death and rebirth; the spiritual hierarchies; a philosophical approach to spirit; and the mission of Christ. ISBN: 1902636287 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $22.00 256 PAGES

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RUDOLF STEINER Herald of a New Epoch STEWART EASTON HIS FULL-SCALE ,

classic biography of Rudolf Steiner by Stewart Easton is the first one written in English. It shows how Steiner’s thought and work developed year by year and provides background to his various books, lectures, artistic achievements, and activities. At the same time, the reader gets to glimpse the man himself, the unique personality who founded Anthroposophy and whose influence is still increasing seventy-five years after his death.

T

ISBN: 0910142939 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 376 PAGES

MEETING RUDOLF STEINER Classics Selections From the Journal for Anthroposophy JOAN ALMON, EDITOR

An Introduction to the Fundamental Works of Rudolf Steiner

Series editor Robert McDermott

RICHARD SEDDON

of articles from the Journal for Anthroposophy consists of first-hand accounts of what it was like to live and work with Rudolf Steiner. Articles range from intimate experiences of Steiner’s dinner table humor to vivid descriptions of the first Goetheanum burning to the ground. Authors include: Albert Schewitzer, Bruno Walter, Arvia MacKay Ege, Andrei Belyi, Lisa Monges, and others.

is to provide Tan study overview of Rudolf

T

HIS COLLECTION

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RUDOLF STEINER’S RESEARCH INTO KARMA & THE MISSION OF THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

TIME

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

Experience and Encounter

inspiring lecture

addressed to the anthroIposophical movement, N THIS

Prokofieff explains why true modern Christian research into karma does not arise out of intellectual speculation, curiosity, or nebulous mystical experiences. The process of karmic research based on spiritual science should lead to a fundamental transformation of our human nature, enabling a full experience of the cosmos within which we exist. Giving an overview of how the spiritual hierarchies and Christ, the Lord of Karma, work in the ordering of human karma, Prokofieff leads us to the karma and mission of the Anthroposophical Society, indicating what must come about — before the end of the century — if this karmic mission is to be fulfilled. ISBN: 0904693694 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $12.95 48 PAGES

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PHILOSOPHY AS AN APPROACH TO THE SPIRIT

WITH

DECISION RUDOLF STEINER OF

FRIEDRICH HIEBEL Translated by Maria St. Goar

recol-

of the early days Tof lection the Anthroposophical HIS FASCINATING

Society offers a unique perspective on Rudolf Steiner’s work and his relationship to his students. Of particular interest to our readers will be the chapters on the Christmas Conference of 1923 for the foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society. Hiebel attended the meeting, and his lively descriptions and warm style let those solemn events rise up again in our souls. He recreates the solemn, sacred mood of the laying of the Foundation Stone, and provides insights into the structure and meaning of the “Foundation Stone” meditation verses. ISBN: 0880102748 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $19.95 390 PAGES

HE OBJECT

of this

Steiner’s philosophical work. Though his work was were far ahead of its time, it has remained virtually unnoticed by most contemporary philosophers. Steiner’s philosophy, which lays the foundation for all that followed, needs to be more widely understood. Because this philosophy describes Steiner’s living experiences of the physical and invisible worlds, the author places it in the context of a brief biography to show how Steiner’s thinking developed. Seddon’s studies in moral sciences convinced him that Steiner’s resolution of the main problems of philosophy since Aristotle was correct. After a half century of subsequent work in Anthroposophy, Seddon saw the need for an introductory volume that clearly lays out Steiner’s views without the complications that arise in the context of late nineteenth-century philosophy. This book is the result, intended both for students of Anthroposophy who have no knowledge of philosophy and for students of philosophy who have no knowledge of Anthroposophy. ISBN: 1902636694 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $18.00 144 PAGES

REMINISCENCES OF RUDOLF STEINER and Work on the First Goetheanum ASSYA TURGENIEV

TURGENIEV, a colleague of Rudolf

answers many questions in this firstAhandSteiner, account of her close relationship with SSYA

Steiner from 1912 until his death in 1925. She recounts the burning of the Goetheanum, the period surrounding Steiner’s death, the early performances of his mystery plays, his lectures and travels, and the artistic work and performances at the Goetheanum. ISBN: 1902636406 BOOK (HARDCOVER) TEMPLE LODGE $26.00 144 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Esoteric Studies MYSTICS

AFTER

MODERNISM

THE MYSTERIES

Discovering the Seeds of a New Science in the Renaissance

Rudolf Steiner’s Writings on Spiritual Initiation

RUDOLF STEINER

RUDOLF STEINER & ANDREW WELBURN

Foreword by Christopher Bamford Afterword by Paul M. Allen Written 1901 (CW 7)

were early

in the modern art Tof giants illumined self-knowlHESE MYSTICS

edge. Their ways of seeing the world, God, and themselves foreshadowed all that we practice now in the best of meditation, both East and West. Steiner describes their passion for unity, their practice of intensifying their perception, and their ever-fresh insights into the process of knowing itself. Steiner immerses us in the evolving stream of eleven mystics from thirteenth to seventeenth centuries who resolved the conflict between inner perceptions and the beginnings of modern science in the new world of individual freedom. Contents: • Foreword by Christopher Bamford • Preface to the 1923 Edition • Introduction: Mystics, Natural Science, and the Modern World (by Rudolf Steiner) • Meister Eckhart • The Friendship with God: Johannes Tauler • Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa • Agrippa of Nettesheim & Theophrastus Paracelsus • Valentin Weigel & Jacob Boehme • Giordano Bruno & Angelus Silesius • Epilogue • Afterword: About the Author, the People, and the Background of This Book (by Paul M. Allen) • Preface to First Edition 1901 A previous edition was titled Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age ISBN: 0880104708 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $18.95 208 PAGES

“The mysteries have been since ancient times an expression of the inner triumphing over external forces. In Antiquity they played the role especially of preserving a link with the ‘time of the gods,’ of primordial revelation. Not in a static way, but by bringing the chosen leaders, prophets, or priests to confront the powers of life and death, to discover the deeper needs and potential of the human spirit, the Mysteries had kept humanity in touch with the living foundations of experience.” —Andrew Welburn

Mknows little of the ancient mystery schools— ODERN SCHOLARSHIP

hypothetical explanations and outer appearances are its sources. Through his spiritual research, Steiner gives us a penetrating look into the evolution and history of human consciousness, Earth, and the cosmos and describes the experiences people gained through the ancient mysteries. This survey takes us through the mysteries of Artemis in Ephesus, as well as those of Hibernia, Eleusis, Samothrace, and the Middle Ages. Steiner also discusses modern initiation. After preliminary lectures on the nature and function of the human soul, a magnificent drama is presented of the Earth’s development—graphic descriptions of the metals, their connection with the planets, and their curative properties. Steiner outlines the origin of plants and animals and humanity’s connection with the Earth, giving a panoramic view of humanity’s past, present, and future. Andrew Welburn is a fellow of New College, Oxford. He has written, translated, and edited numerous books on spiritual science and early Christianity. ISBN: 0863152430 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 208 PAGES

MYSTERY KNOWLEDGE & MYSTERY CENTRES RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Andrew Welburn 14 lectures, Dornach, Nov.–Dec., 1923 (CW 232)

descriptions of the ancient

schools, surveying the mysteries Sof mystery Artemis, Hibernia, Eleusis, Samothrace, TEINER OFFERS

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and the Middle Ages as well as the conditions of initiation today. Following lectures on the the human soul, Steiner presents an imagination of the Earth’s development, including descriptions of the metals, their connection with the planets, and their curative properties. He outlines the origins of plants and animals and our connection with the Earth, and also gives a panoramic view of human evolution. ISBN: 1855840618 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 272 PAGES

PRINCIPLES

OF

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

CARL UNGER HIS SLIM ,

challeng-

volume supports Tandingextends Steiner’s

Anthroposophy and provides a secure foundation in suprasensory realities. Steiner had asked Unger to work with the spiritual scientific theory of knowledge, and this is the essence of what he accomplished in this field. Carl Unger was an early student of Rudolf Steiner and lectured extensively on spiritual science. He is the author of The Language of the Consciousness Soul., a study guide to Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts. ISBN: 0910142696 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $4.95 80 PAGES

PHILOSOPHY, COSMOLOGY & RELIGION RUDOLF STEINER 10 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 1922 (CW 215)

on exercises to attain

higher spiritual development, describing Sphilosophy as based on imagination, cosmology TEINER FOCUSES

on inspiration, and religion on intuition. This is followed by a rich account of the stages of sleep and the period between death and rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual cognition. ISBN: 0880101105 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 190 PAGES 35

Esoteric Studies

SPIRITUALISM, MADAME BLAVATSKY & THEOSOPHY An Eyewitness View of Occult History RUDOLF STEINER Edited & introduced by Christopher Bamford

spiritu-

alist movement and W the amazing personality ITHOUT THE

of H. P. Blavatsky, the Theosophical Society, and the spiritual revolution of the twentieth century, today’s spiritual movements would be unimaginable. Nor would the works of Rudolf Steiner, G. I. Gurdjieff, René Guénon, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sri Aurobindo, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, and C. G. Jung have developed as they did. In this fascinating volume on the Theosophical movement, Steiner, as a major participant, goes into occult history and the roots of Theosophy in Western esotericism, especially Rosicrucianism, secret societies, and the hidden history behind the creation of Theosophy in the nineteenth century. ISBN: 0880104953 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $24.95 288 PAGES

SECRET BROTHERHOODS And the Mystery of the Human Double RUDOLF STEINER 7 lectures, various cities, Nov. 1917 (CW 178)

that secret

Tgroups are trying to gain control of humanity HE IDEA

is no longer in doubt. But this was not understood in 1917, when Rudolf Steiner spoke of these matters in these extraordinary lectures. His unique contribution to this controversial topic arose from spiritual research. Taking us behind the scenes, he reveals a dark world of secret elitist brotherhoods trying to control the masses through economics, technology, and political assassinations. Topics include the geographic nature of the American continent and the forces that arise from it; the nature of the double (or doppelganger) and the dangers of psychoanalysis; the spiritual origin of electromagnetism; the abuse of inoculations and vaccinations; the meaning of Ireland for world development; confused 36

ideas about angels in relation to higher beings and divinity; and, above all, the need for clear insight into world events based on spiritual knowledge. ISBN: 1855841622 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 240 PAGES

An Introduction

Rudolf Steiner 14 lectures, Munich, May 22–June 6, 1907 (CW 99)

the stream

of Rosicrucian teachB ing—not old ideas of

tradition, but a wholly new contribution from spiritual research—Steiner portrays the Rosicrucian path as the most appropriate for modern seekers. He warns that, rather than abstract theory, these ideas must reach into daily activity and transform life. He describes the law of destiny, life after death, spiritual sight, and much more. Previous edition: Theosophy of the Rosicrucians ISBN: 1855840634 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 194 PAGES

THE TEMPLE LEGEND Freemasonry and Related Occult Movements: From the Contents of the Esoteric School RUDOLF STEINER 20 lectures, Berlin, 1904–1906 (CW 93)

unique lectures

of his EsoItericto members School (1904–1914), N THESE

Steiner reveals the hidden meaning of images in myths, sagas, and legends, and clarifies the history and nature of the cultic tradition. He discusses Freemasonry and its background, the Rosicrucians, Manicheism, the Druids, the Golden Legend, Cain and Abel, and much more. Includes extensive publisher’s notes. ISBN: 1855840413 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $35.00 408 PAGES

OF

COENRAAD VAN HOUTEN

extends his earlier works—

TPractising Destiny and Awakening the Will—and the path of adult education he calls “destiny HE AUTHOR

ROSICRUCIAN WISDOM

ASED ON

THE THREEFOLD NATURE DESTINY LEARNING

learning.” He broadens and deepens his work on this theme, showing that learning from destiny, as well as awakening the forces of will, are continuing processes. His practical advice can be applied directly to everyday life. ISBN: 1902636589 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $15.95 80 PAGES

THE FUTURE

IS

NOW

Anthroposophy at the New Millennium SEVAK GULBEKIAN, EDITOR

essays offer thoughts

Ton where Anthroposophy in its earthly manifestation now stands and to what extent HESE EIGHTEEN

it is fulfilling its tasks. This commentary on the challenges ahead offers us all a chance to reassess, prepare, and wake up. Contributors include J. ben-Aharon, M. Betti, T. Boardman, P. Bridgmont, G. Childs, D. Deverell, M. Glöckler, S. Gulbekian, B. Masters, T. Meyer, B.NesfieldCookson, S. Prokofieff, R. Seddon, N. Thomas, P. Tradowsky, H. P. Manen, E. Warren, and O. Whicher. ISBN: 1902636090 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $26.00 272 PAGES

THE REDEMPTION

OF

THINKING

A Study in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas RUDOLF STEINER 3 lectures, Dornach, May 1920 (CW 74)

the background of

early Christian thought, from which the Sscholastic philosophers arose. He then focuses TEINER DESCRIBES

on the unanswered question of the scholastic movement: How can human thinking be made Christlike and develop upward to a vision of the spirit world? Steiner’s study of European thought, especially Kant, shows us how to deepen scientific thinking to suprasensory perception, today’s “true Christianity.” ISBN: 0880100443 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $12.95 191 PAGES

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Esoteric Studies

TOWARD IMAGINATION Culture and the Individual RUDOLF STEINER 7 lectures, Berlin, June 6–July 18, 1916 (CW 169)

confronts us with the dead end to which materialism has brought modern civilization. Starting with a new look at the festival of Pentecost, he shows how the chaos of the times can be transcended. He deals with the importance of balance in life; the twelve senses and their relationship to the cosmos; psychology; the arts; and the importance of imagination.

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TEINER VIVIDLY

ISBN: 0880102853 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $12.95 5½X8½ 192 PAGES ISBN: 0880102845 HARDCOVER $24.95

TRANSFORMING EARTH— TRANSFORMING SELF CARLO PIETZNER

of

the intiTmateconsciousness, relationship between HE DEVELOPMENT

the physical world and higher worlds, and the power of the word as a transforming force are recurring themes in these lectures by Carlo Pietzner, founding president of the Camphill Association of North America. ISBN: 0880104287 BOOK (PAPERBACK) CAMPHILL PUBLICATIONS $16.95 224 PAGES

REALITY, TRUTH & EVIL Facts, Questions, and Perspectives on September 11, 2001 T. H. MEYER

events of September 11, 2001,

and Pearl Harbor as his backdrop, Meyer U studies the issues of reality, truth, and evil. He SING THE

shows that U. S. political practice under the influence of secret societies such as Skull and Bones is based on an ideology of polarity, conflict, and what Huntington famously referred to as a “clash of civilizations.”

In contrast to the divisive thinking and “conflict management” of leading representatives of the Anglo American elite, the author shows how the holistic approach of Rudolf Steiner and Mabel Collins offers a radical alternative for dealing with polarities and overcoming conflict. THOMAS H. MEYER is the founder of Perseus Verlag, Basel, and is editor of the monthly journal Der Europäer. ISBN: 190263666X BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $22.00 160 PAGES

TRANSPARENT REALITIES HANS PETER VAN MANEN

part explores

of spiritual sciTencetheandrolespiritual impulses HE FIRST

in rescuing our environment and how to develop a healthy relationship to nature. The author shows how an intimate connection to the divine Sophia can lead to moral activity in this world. The second part focuses on thirty-three-year rhythms in the history of the Anthroposophical Society. ISBN: 0904693627 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $12.95 64 PAGES

TRUMPET

TO THE

WITH

DESTINY II

The Golden Blade 1998 WILLIAM FORWARD, SIMON BLAXLAND-DE LANGE & ANDREW WOLPERT, EDITORS

is devoted to taking charge

Tof destiny by understanding, in practical ways, one’s karmic stream. Contributors HIS COLLECTION

include Owen Barfield, Baruch Urieli, Christopher Clouder, Trui Derwig, Elizabeth Atwell, and others. ISBN: 0953160009 BOOK (PAPERBACK) GOLDEN BLADE $12.95 98 PAGES

THE ULTIMATE COMMUNION OF MANKIND A Celebration of Rudolf Steiner’s Book “The Philosophy of Freedom” KAREN SWASSJAN WASSJAN ’S SPARKLING

humor, wit, and

lively style make this a thoroughly unique Sdiscourse on what is perhaps Steiner’s most

important work. Brilliant insight and comprehensive scholarship. ISBN: 0904693821 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $19.95 112 PAGES

MACROCOSM

AND

MICROCOSM

RUDOLF STEINER

MORN

The Golden Blade 2001 WILLIAM FORWARD & SIMON BLAXLAND-DE LANGE, EDITORS

of

articles brings out new Tanthroposophical research HE COLLECTION

WORKING

from clairvoyance to Bolshevism to computers and psychiatry. Contributors are Dr. James Dyson, Harlan Gilbert, Corinna Gleide, Bernard Jarman, Alex Naylor, Bodo von Plato, Sergei Prokofieff, and Jonael Schickler. ISBN: 0953160033 BOOK (PAPERBACK) EMERSON COLLEGE $15.00 134 PAGES

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11 lectures, Vienna, March 1910 (CW 119)

alternates

between the great H outer macrocosm and the UMAN LIFE

hidden inner microcosm. Steiner discusses the various paths of inner development that lead to crossing these two thresholds and the transformation of soul forces into spiritual organs of perception. ISBN: 0880102004 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 5½X8½ 208 PAGES ISBN: 0880102012 HARDCOVER $20.00

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Inner Development ENLIVENING THE CHAKRA OF THE HEART

ANTHROPOSOPHY &

The Fundamental Spiritual Exercises of Rudolf Steiner

9 lectures, Dornach, Jan.–Feb. 1924 (CW 234)

FLORIN LOWNDES

the

Mfoundation of every spiritual path. As protecEDITATION IS

tion against the dangers of meditation, Steiner suggested exercises to promote inner certainty by developing thinking, volition, and feeling. The author details the fundamental exercises and offers suggestions for developing living thinking, which is closely related to the heart chakra. Florin Lowndes has had an international career in architectural art and design. He coauthored The Human Life and founded the Center of Heart Thinking in Boston. ISBN: 1855840537 BOOK (PAPERBACK) SOPHIA BOOKS $22.00 208 PAGES

ESOTERIC DEVELOPMENT Lectures and Writings RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Stephen Usher

an orderly

sequence of statements H by Steiner on the developERE IS

ment of higher, suprasensory knowing — imagination, inspiration, and intuition. Nine chapters take the reader from the idea of inner development, through the cultural and evolutionary need for higher knowing, and then to examples of the practices and inner gestures required by this work. Steiner describes the necessary steps and stages, always insisting on the free, individual, and cognitive character of anthroposophic spiritual research. ISBN: 0880105240 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $20.00 208 PAGES

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THE INNER

LIFE

RUDOLF STEINER

were

given to an audience Tof seasoned students of HESE LECTURES

Anthroposophy; nevertheless, Rudolf Steiner described this course as “introductory.” As the wide-ranging content reveals, Steiner’s gaze was clearly fixed on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy in an exoteric way, because he believed that today’s spiritual crisis requires it. Given a year before he died, these lectures consider the implications of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy can help us develop. Steiner’s subjects include the transition from ordinary knowing to the science of initiation; meditation and inspiration; love, intuition, and the human “I”; dream life and outer reality; imaginative cognition and the building of destiny; and phases of memory and the true self. This is essential reading for all serious students of Anthroposophy. Previous edition: Anthroposophy: An Introduction. ISBN: 0854403876 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $17.95 136 PAGES

GUIDANCE

IN

ESOTERIC TRAINING

From the Esoteric School RUDOLF STEINER Talks & writings, 1903–1913 (CW 245)

mate-

Srial given by Rudolf Steiner to members of his ELECTED FROM

esoteric school (1904–1914), this volume features exercises, meditations, and practices for spiritual selfdevelopment. In contrast to Eastern methods of inner development, these practices arise from the

Western, Rosicrucian stream, adapted fully to modern consciousness. Steiner provides various exercises — for morning and evening, for the days of the week, and for the months of the year. Also included are numerous explanations that can deepen and enhance meditative work, including several articles on inner development and the obstacles one faces on the way to true selfawareness. This enlarged edition contains additional clarification of the exercises, descriptions of future world and human evolution, and advice that Steiner gave later in his life on the nature of breathing exercises and ancient and modern methods of initiation. This is an invaluable resource for all those who are serious about inner development, regardless of one’s chosen path. ISBN: 1855840766 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 192 PAGES

WORKING

WITH

ANTHROPOSOPHY

The Practice of Thinking GEORG KÜHLEWIND

of this study

an expeTrienceis toofcultivate living, intuiHE GOAL

tive thinking, such as we experience with each fresh understanding. Kühlewind tells us that this unique contribution to the practice of Anthroposophy has a twofold purpose: “to stimulate working with spiritual science through exercises, and to stimulate independent new formulations of its content on the basis of experience.” Studying Anthroposophy “is an activity, an event,” not the gathering of information and facts. Working with Anthroposophy will help guide beginning students and inspire longtime students along the path made public by Rudolf Steiner. As with all of Kühlewind’s works, this book brings new insights with each reading. ISBN: 0880103612 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 96 PAGES

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Inner Development

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the eye, using Athe meets eyes of the soul along

with the physical eyes. As all seeing is a form of cognition, higher seeing is the key to higher cognition or knowing. For most of us, the spiritual world is hidden, deeply disguised by the sensory the world. The human psyche and our consciousness — enmeshed as they are in the physical senses — cannot easily be aware of both worlds. The human soul, which has the latent ability to focus consciousness into any number of levels, is our link between the physical body and direct experience of spirit. The ability to determine the focus of awareness is our great gift and our greatest challenge. These practices begin right where we are in life and take us through the levels of concentration; the ability to transform the image; and meditation. After presenting the practical exercises, along with commentary, that identify and lay out the steps, Klocek shows us how the path can be followed through to an understanding of a seemingly impenetrable alchemical image of the soul’s journey as he guides us up the Alchemical Mountain to heartfelt thinking. Through such a journey, it becomes possible for human beings to live as spiritual beings among other spiritual beings. The Seer’s Handbook is a unique and friendly handbook that will help guide anyone along the path to higher worlds. DENNIS KLOCEK is a “Renaissance man” — artist, scientist, teacher, researcher, gardener, and alchemist. After graduating with a MFA in 1975 from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art with a thesis on Goethe’s color theory, he taught at a community college. In 1982, his love for the work of Rudolf Steiner took him to Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento, where he has been the director of their Consciousness Studies Program (“Goethean Studies”) since 1992. ISBN: 0880105488 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 288 PAGES

“A beautiful text with much originality.” —Georg Kühlewind “A profound and loving book, filled with practical wisdom, beautiful writing, and true inspiration.... I highly recommend it for all seekers of a deeper, more creative life.” —David Spangler, author of Blessing and Apprenticed to Spirit

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STEINER’S

accomplishments R in so many fields make UDOLF

it easy to forget that perhaps his greatest gift was to offer himself to the world as a spiritual researcher, meditator, and meditation teacher. Structured in chapters that lead the reader from foundational instructions and practices to more advanced work with verses, meditations, and visualizations, Start Now! is certain to become a classic. Here is an inspiring guide to all the practical aspects of Anthroposophy. It offers the most extensive collection available of Steiner’s spiritual instructions and practices, including meditation instructions; mantric verses; daily, weekly, and monthly practices for developing one’s soul qualities; karmic exercises and meditations for working with the dead, with the angelic hierarchies, and with our guardian angels. Working out of many traditions — Rosicrucian, alchemical, esoteric Christian, Masonic, and Theosophic — Steiner practiced and became an adept in all of these, ultimately creating his own unique approach. Start Now! is an extensive sample of Steiner’s spiritual instructions and meditative practices that, until now, have remained hidden within the overwhelming volume of his more than three thousand works. The introduction by Christopher Bamford provides background for Rudolf Steiner’s path and gives a context for many of the events behind the genesis of this modern path of initiation. No one who is serious about spiritual practice — whether a beginner or an advanced student — should be without this handbook! ISBN: 0880105267 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $20.00 272 PAGES

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Myth, Evolution & History ANCIENT MYTHS & THE NEW ISIS MYSTERY

ASPECTS

RUDOLF STEINER

Christian Rosenkreutz & Rosicrucianism

RUDOLF STEINER

Foreword by J. Leonard Benson 8 lectures, Berlin May–July 1917 (CW 176)

RUDOLF STEINER

7 lectures, Jan. 1918 (CW 180); 1 lecture, Dec. 1920 (CW 202) TEINER LOOKS

ISBN: 0880103779 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $14.95 184 PAGES

EGYPTIAN MYTHS

MYSTERIES

RUDOLF STEINER 12 lectures, Leipzig, Sept. 1908 (CW 106)

the deep spiritual connection of our modern epoch with ancient Egypt and why it is important to study its civilization. Its profound wisdom, its extraordinary knowledge of cosmic laws, and its myths are meaningful for us now. He describes the experiences of the Egyptian initiations, facts of occult anatomy and physiology, the stages of evolution of the human form, and more, culminating with a lecture on Christ as the conqueror of matter.

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of twenty-seven. After that, nothing happens for our inner being, so that life becomes a kind of mummification, unless we learn to develop inwardly. He explains how to exert thinking and feeling to keep the soul alive and growing. Ultimately, this is the only way we can make this incarnation successful. Through such effort, we continue to develop inwardly until a very advanced age, each year, becoming richer and more interesting than the year before. These lectures give real meaning to the idea that we live in a state of becoming! This volume and The Karma of Materialism comprise the whole of CW 176. ISBN: 0880102527 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 208 PAGES ISBN: 0880102519 HARDCOVER $18

THE KARMA AND

that the

developSmentsoul’sstopsnatural around the age TEINER SHOWS

at Egyptian, Greek, and Hebrew myths, showing how they depict human consciousness at the time. He explains how the Osiris–Isis myth expresses the loss of direct suprasensory experience, and how we must bring new life to our abstract ways of knowing today. He also offers a new Isis legend. In the Egyptian myth, the veiled Isis says, “I am the All, I am the Past, the Present, and the Future; no mortal has yet lifted my veil.” In the New Isis legend, as told by Steiner, Isis states, “I am the Human Being, I am the Past, the Present, and the Future. Every mortal should lift my veil.” This extraordinary story challenges us to awaken to a new consciousness of the spiritual forces and to bear this new spirit with greater understanding and responsibility.

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MATERIALISM

RUDOLF STEINER 9 lectures, Berlin, July–Sept. 1917 (CW 176) Foreword by Owen Barfield

“[Natural science] has left unexamined and unimproved the first and most essential, the most ubiquitously applied, of all its tools. It has never tried to examine the nature of thinking itself; the point at which unconscious process blossoms into, or rather ‘sets’ as, conscious thought.” —Owen Barfield

udolf Steiner examines the effects of

scientists’ failure to examine thinking R itself since the beginning of the so-called

scientific revolution. This has led to a materialistic attitude in human culture that generates what Steiner calls “the karma of materialism.” He explains that there is a lack of harmony between the human intellect, which involves the physical body and life forces, and the sense of morality, which involves the most recent aspect of our human constitution—our individuality, or “I” being.

THE SECRET STREAM

Edited & introduced by Christopher Bamford

collects

discusTsionsall ofof theSteiner’s Rosicrucians, HIS VOLUME

answering questions such as What is the Rosicrucian path? What is alchemy? What is the difference between Rosicrucianism and mysticism? And what does it mean for today? The topics include the Tao and the Rose Cross; the history and mission of Christian Rosenkreutz; the nature of Rosicrucian practice and experience; the meaning of The Chymical Wedding, and Goethe’s Rosicrucian poem “The Mysteries.” Rosicrucian meditation is also discussed, including how to meditate on the Rose Cross itself. This important collection goes to the spiritual heart of Anthroposophy, the essence of which is the Rosicrucian path. ISBN: 0880104759 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $19.95 256 PAGES

THE EVOLUTION OF AND OF HUMANITY

THE

WORLD

RUDOLF STEINER 13 lectures, Penmaenmawr, Wales, Aug. 1923

were

given in Wales at the TInternational Summer HESE LECTURES

School, initiated by D. N. Dunlop. Steiner spoke about the three stages of higher consciousness, the human being’s relation to the three worlds, the ruling spirit in nature, existence in the spiritual world after death, and the human being’s entry into the era of freedom. ISBN: 089345060X BOOK (HARDCOVER) GARBER BOOKS $18.00 246 PAGES

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DESTINIES OF INDIVIDUALS AND OF NATIONS

THE GREAT INITIATES

LIGHT

A Study of the Secret History of Religions

RUDOLF STEINER

EDOUARD SCHURÉ

14 lectures, Berlin 1914–1915 (CW 157)

overview of history Tencompasses centuries

Rudolf Steiner’s Association with Helmuth and Eliza von Moltke— Letters, Documents & After-Death Communications

each

of these lectures, given Sduring World War I, with TEINER STARTED

a verse for those who had died. He begins this volume with a consideration of the destinies of nations from a spiritual perspective. He goes on to consider the Christ impulse and Michaelic spirits. Also included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the rhythm of sleeping and waking, the relation between our physical and etheric bodies, and the prophetic nature of dreams. The last lecture discusses the cosmic meaning of our sensory impressions as well as the life of thinking, feeling, and volition. ISBN: 0880102055 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 258 PAGES

HISTORY WORDS

IN

ENGLISH

OWEN BARFIELD Foreword by W. H. Auden ARFIELD’S THOUGHT-

B works have made him a legendary figure. PROVOKING

History in English Words, his classic historical excursion through the English language, is back in print after many years. It is a brief and brilliant history of the peoples who have spoken the Indo-European tongues, illustrated throughout by current English words whose derivation from other languages, whose history in use and changes of meaning, record and unlock the larger history. Owen Barfield (1898–1997), philosopher and critic, was a member of the group known as the Oxford Inklings, which included C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. His history of the evolution of human consciousness, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry, was named among the 100 “Best Spiritual Books of the Century.” ISBN: 0940262118 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $17.95 192 PAGES

HIS COMPREHENSIVE

MYSTERY

OF THE

UNIVERSE

The Human Being, Model of Creation RUDOLF STEINER 16 lectures, Dornach, April–May 1920 (CW 201)

the ultimate secret of the universe? In these eloquent lectures, Steiner describes the human being as the model of creation and the primary focus of the cosmos. He talks extensively of our intimate connection with the constellation of cosmic forces, the zodiac, and planets. The ancient mystery traditions called on the human being to “know thyself!” Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study subjectively our own personal character, but rather to come to a knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature, and the decisive position we occupy in the universe. Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces that surround us—the microcosm within the greater macrocosm—can enable humanity to progress. This book is an important contribution to the development of a contemporary spiritual science of the human being. Previous edition: Man, Hieroglyph of the Universe

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of human existence and reflects on our greatest search—the quest for spirit. It shows the motives behind outer history, the growth of religions, the rise and fall of cultures, and shows their importance for us today. Schuré describes the lives and works of extraordinary human beings, including Rama, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and Jesus. ISBN: 0893452289 BOOK (PAPERBACK) GARBER BOOKS $24.95 480 PAGES

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of

and documents Tdealsletters with themes of HIS COLLECTION

tremendous significance for today—the third millennium; karma and reincarnation; life after death; the function of evil; the destiny of Europe; and the hidden causes of World War I. It tells of the meeting between two great men: Rudolf Steiner (1865–1925) and Helmuth von Moltke (1848–1916), chief of staff of the German army before he was dismissed from his post in 1914, following disagreements with the kaiser. The connection between Moltke and Steiner included personal meetings, letters, and clairvoyant messages after the general’s death. Their communications are reproduced here, along with an interview with Steiner and related articles. ISBN: 1855840510 BOOK (HARDCOVER) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $49.00 404 PAGES

THE SPIRITUAL EVENT TWENTIETH CENTURY

OF THE

The Occult Significance of the 12 Years, 1933–45 in the Light of Spiritual Science JESAIAH BEN-AHARON EN-A HARON GIVES

a first-hand testimony

on Steiner’s view of the new Christ revelaB tion and offers his findings on the “spiritual

event of the twentieth century.” He shows us how to freely participate in that event. Because the second coming is an ever-present spiritual reality beyond time and space, it is always at hand and awaiting our willing cooperation in mediation and prayer, through which the second coming can be experienced directly. ISBN: 0904693775 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $15.95 80 PAGES

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Myth, Evolution & History

OCCULT HISTORY Historical Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritual Science

THE PRINCIPLE OF SPIRITUAL ECONOMY

NECESSITY

AND

FREEDOM

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5 lectures, Berlin, Jan.–Feb. 1916 (CW 166)

11 lectures, 1909 (CW 109)

6 lectures, Stuttgart, 1910–1911 (CW 126)

aspect of Thowparticular human beings have

Sthe questions of freedom and necessity,

this through important historical individuals, including Plato, Copernicus, Raphael, and Galileo, discussing their influence in changing the cultural and intellectual climate of the various ages. He demonstrates the inadequacy of viewing history only from a temporal and spatial perspective, emphasizing the need to recognize the deeper meaning of historical events disclosed in myths and in the spiritual impulses behind them.

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THE MYSTERIES OF THE EAST AND OF CHRISTIANITY RUDOLF STEINER 4 lectures, Berlin, February 3–7, 1913 (CW 144)

a sketch of

evolution of the mysSteriesthefrom ancient Persia, TEINER GIVES

POLARITIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF MANKIND

TEINER DISCUSSES

IN THE

thinking and their spiritual and

social structures in any period are not W accidental. They are brought about by certain

groups of people working together for good or evil. Steiner describes these hidden groups in the nineteenth century and their effects today.

and belief. He describes the forces of decline in modern civilization, how they are trying to overcome freedom in human destiny, and how Christ is pouring a new spirit into human evolution. ISBN: 0880105569 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $12.95 5½X8½ 190 PAGES

guilt and innocence. He includes questions of evolution, history, and culture, showing how and where human beings carry responsibility for these developments. ISBN: 0880102608 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 134 PAGES

THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE ROY WILKINSON

surveys

Tlanguage, going back to a time when people still HE AUTHOR

the polarities of West East, materialism Sandandmysticism, knowledge

10 lectures, Dornach, Oct. 1915 (CW 254)

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11 lectures, Stuttgart, Mar. 5–Nov. 22, 1920 (CW 197)

RUDOLF STEINER

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been guided spiritually throughout history—by the life forces and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were preserved, duplicated, and interwoven with the leading personalities of history. Steiner gives numerous examples of this process, but he says that such inspired people are rare today. Nevertheless, we have the possibility of elevating ourselves in the future to the point where we can receive into ourselves the “I-being” of the Christ, which is indeed our greatest goal — “not I but Christ in me.”

RUDOLF STEINER

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AYS OF

reveal a

West & East; Materialism & Mysticism; Knowledge & Belief

through Egypt and Greece, to the Christian era and the present day with the modern initiation of the Holy Grail.

THE OCCULT MOVEMENT NINETEENTH CENTURY

HESE TALKS

TEINER ILLUMINATES

understood its spiritual roots. Wilkinson enthusiastically shows the many layers of language and how spiritual science once again helps us to truly understand the language we use. ISBN: 1869890353 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $13.95 88 PAGES

THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF EASTERN EUROPE And the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

PSteiner’s spiritual research to look behind ROKOFIEFF USES

history. He shows that human conscience arose from ancient, hidden mystery centers in Hibernia and among Slavic people. As a result, compassion, patience, and willingness for sacrifice developed in the souls of Eastern Europeans, leading to a true “Grail mood.” ISBN: 0904693554 BOOK (HARDCOVER) TEMPLE LODGE $65.00 560 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Life after Death

THE TENSION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Owen Barfield 10 lectures, Vienna, June 1–11, 1922 (CW 83)

to human

only a shadBowy,thinking subjective validity, Y ASCRIBING

modern science tries to invalidate the very faculty that gives us our human dignity. At the same time, however, this “unreality” of thought images makes possible an inner freedom that scientific doctrine tends to deny in principle. The need arises from these contradictions to extend the limits of ordinary scientific thinking to new investigative faculties. Steiner esplains that this can be achieved in a healthy way through two kinds of meditative excercises—different from Eastern and other older paths—that lead to the discovery of a paradox: To know yourself, look into the world; to know the world, look within. While acknowledging that we are just beginning to discover the right relationship between individual and community, Steiner explains how we might find a way from our highly developed sense of personal self into the worldwide social organism. ISBN: 0880100710 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 188 PAGES

THE FUTURE EARTH

OF

HUMANITY

AND THE

As Foreseen by Rudolf Steiner RICHARD SEDDON

STEINER sys-

tematically cultivated R methods of spiritual UDOLF

vision and research, which enabled him to investigate the course of human evolution. He described how the thoughts and activities of the hierarchies of spiritual beings are discernible within the dimensions of soul and spirit. Under certain conditions, it is possible for an initiate who has developed special capacities to grasp what those beings are preparing for the future. This was achieved by St. John in his Book of Revelation and by Steiner throughout his many years of spiritual research and teaching.

The author gathers the essence of hundreds of lectures to create this broad overview of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research into the course of human evolution. His fascinating survey takes us from the present to the farfuture stages of our planet. He also discusses the respiritualization both of Earth and the solar system, which illuminates events in the Book of Revelation and the eventual transformation of evil into good. Richard Seddon studied moral sciences (philosophy, ethics, logic, and psychology) with Bertrand Russell and John Wisdom—an advocate and colleague of Ludwig Wittgenstein—at Cambridge. ISBN: 1902636295 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $22.00 160 PAGES

OVER THE

RIVER

Joseph Wetzl MAZING COMMUNICA-

Amusician named from a young Sigwart to TIONS

his sister after his death in 1915. After experiencing an inner unrest leading to the feeling that her brother was trying to contact her, she gradually achieved conscious contact with him, receiving the remarkable messages included here, messages that she shared with Steiner. Containing prayers, meditations, insights, advice, and a view of the world born aloft by love, it will comfort, enlighten, and speak to hearts of all persuasions. ISBN: 0910142599 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $15.95 108 PAGES THE

THRESHOLD

Practical and Spiritual Guidance on Death and Dying, Based on the Work of Rudolf Steiner NICHOLAS WIJNBERG & PHILIP MARTYN

the perspective of Steiner’s

spiritual philosophy, the authors suggest W ways of coping with the time leading up to RITING FROM

BEYOND THE

DARKNESS

How I Healed My Suicide Son after His Death

After Death Communications of a Young Artist Who Died in World War I

CROSSING

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LIGHT

Life after Death BRIDGE

various circumstances and offer advice on practical questions such as funeral arrangement, the body, legal issues, and wills. They also suggest how those left behind can continue to relate to the departed soul of the deceased. The authors clarify Steiner’s approach to funerals and, in particular, how his advice relates to members of the Christian Community and the Anthroposophical Society.

DORÉ DEVERELL Foreword by George Ritchie EVERELL’S SON

Richard

led a difficult life of D physical and mental illness

and depression. His suicide at the age of thirty-six devastated her, but she was determined to find healing. This is a first-hand account of how, through the work of Rudolf Steiner, she discovered how to communicate with her son’s spirit. Those who commit suicide often experience great suffering and regret, and she learned how to alleviate and transform her son’s pain. Practical steps are explained for those who are in similar situations. An extraordinary account of love, despair, death, and resurrection that confirms a spiritual reality—that light overcomes dark through the spirit. Illustrated. Doré Deverell was born in Oklahoma in 1923 and lived for many years in Los Angeles, where she lectured, taught, counseled and wrote on health. Living in Sacramento, she attended Rudolf Steiner College and has tutored at the local Waldorf school. She is currently writing about her experience of child abuse, alcoholism, cancer, and suicide, and how overcoming them can be a path of spiritual development. She has two children and three grandchildren. ISBN: 1902636198 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $19.95 136 PAGES

death and the period afterward. They examine

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Life after Death

LIFE

BETWEEN

DEATH

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REBIRTH

RUDOLF STEINER 16 lectures, various cities, 1912–1913 (CW 140)

lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during and after death. On the basis of precise clairvoyant observations, he describes the events experienced during the millennium of the soul’s journey within the vast realms of soul and spirit between death and rebirth. Steiner describes the states of consciousness experienced by our deceased loved ones and how we—by considering their new consciousness—can communicate with them and even help them. Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still on Earth, in turn, derive enlightenment and support from their former earthly companions.

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LIFE

BEYOND

DEATH

RUDOLF STEINER

WESTERN

humanity has conquered A the outer world through LTHOUGH

technology and science, death remains an unsolved and largely unexplored mystery. Steiner was able to research spiritually the question of human consciousness after the physical body passes away. In these lectures, he affirms that life continues beyond death. Far from being dissipated, individual consciousness awakens to a new reality, beginning a great journey to the farthest expanses of the cosmos, where it embarks on a process of purification and preparation. Steiner explains that one of the most important tasks today is the reestablishment of living connections with those who have died. He gives suggestions as to how to do this safely, and describes how the dead can help those on Earth. ISBN: 1855840170 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 256 PAGES

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A RAINBOW OVER

THE

RIVER

ONE STEP

AT A

TIME

Experiences of Life, Death & Other Worlds

Mourning a Child

VERONIKA VAN DUIN

sands of parents, Ffriends, and relatives strugOR THE

years Veronika van Duin has been able to see “over the river” experiencing spiritual dimensions and worlds hidden to the physical eye. With clairvoyant vision she has perceived angels and demonic beings, people who have died, and even events taking place in other parts of the world. But in 2002, with the passing of her mother Barbara Lipsker, the author’s spiritual journeys became more concentrated and frequent, and she began to see people who had recently crossed the threshold of death, including the victims of an airplane disaster and a suicide bombing. Veronika van Duin lives with young children with special needs and leads seminars and workshops for homemakers.

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gling to come to terms with the loss of a child, this book is an invaluable source of comfort. Written from her personal experience, One Step at a Time combines Betty Madill’s own sensitive recommendations with recognized bereavement counselling advice. She offers practical suggestions to help people begin their own path of healing and acceptance. Her advice is touching and credible, from ideas for dealing with the effects of the child to working through debilitating grief and feelings of guilt and helplessness. ISBN: 0863153380 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $13.95 128 PAGES

Death and Life beyond Death STANLEY DRAKE Revised by Peter Van Brede

GABRIEL BRADFORD MILLAR, EDITOR

to

Plife from serious accidents sometimes describe

near-death experiences. Thresholds gathers a variety of accounts of “near-life” experiences. This is a book of ordinary revelation whose aim is to help readers respect the authority of their own profound life experiences.

DRAKE,

Swho was a Christian Community priest in TANLEY

Near-Life Experiences

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many thou-

THOUGH YOU DIE

THRESHOLDS

EOPLE RETURNING

BETTY MADILL

England, has brought together a large amount of evidence in this thought-provoking book about death and life beyond death. From the accounts of a growing number of people who have experienced near-death to the deep spiritual insights of Rudolf Steiner, we can begin to learn about the distinct stages in existence after death. Above all is the central Christian mystery of death, which reveals itself as our thinking becomes more spiritual. STANLEY DRAKE was a Christian Community priest in England. ISBN: 0863153690 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $13.95 128 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Life after Death

BESTSELLER

STAYING CONNECTED How to Continue Your Relationships with Those Who Have Died RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Christopher Bamford

“This is what it comes down to: that we learn to experience that those who have passed through the gate of death have only assumed another form. Having died, they stand before our feelings like those who, through life experiences, have traveled to distant lands, whither we can follow them only later. We have therefore nothing to fear but a time of separation. Spiritual science must help us learn to feel and experience this in the most living way we can.” —Rudolf Steiner of “working with the dead” — maintaining, continuing, and enhancing one’s relationships with those who have died — was a fundamental aspect of Rudolf Steiner’s work. This volume collects a rich harvest of his thoughts on the subject, gathered over many years. Steiner spoke directly from his own experience and formulated various meditation practices and verses that worked for him. We learn the usefulness of reading to the dead; the use of verbs (instead of nouns) when we speak with them; the importance of the sacred moments when falling asleep and awakening for asking questions and receiving answers; how our memories of the dead are like “art” to them; and of key moods we must cultivate — community with the world, gratitude, confidence in the current of life. We learn, too, of the many ways discarnate souls can help us in our earthly work, and of the many ways we can help them. Also included are many of the mantras Steiner gave to his students for connecting with those who have died. This important volume will help those who want to deepen their relationships to the living, to those who have died, or to the spiritual world itself. “Know the spiritual world! Then, among the many other belssings that humanity will gain will be this: that the living and the dead will be able to form a unity.” — Rudolf Steiner

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HE IDEA

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Christopher Bamford is the editor in chief of SteinerBooks and its imprints. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he lectures and writes widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions. He teaches regularly at the Rudolf Stiener Institute’s summer program and is the author of The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity (2000) and An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West (2003). He has also translated and edited numerous books, including Celtic Christianity, Homage to Pythagoras, and The Noble Traveller (all published by Lindisfarne Books). HarperSanFrancisco included an essay by Mr. Bamford in its anthology Best Spiritual Writing 2000. He was also a contributing editor to Lapis Magazine.

Also by Christopher Bamford:

AN ENDLESS TRACE The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West Introduction by Philip Zaleski

motives weave Tbeneath the surface of WO POWERFUL

our spiritual history: the desire to know and the desire to love. The secret history of the West is the story of saints, mystics, alchemists, poets, and philosophers trying to unite these two streams and celebrate — in the world and in their own persons — the sacred marriage of Logos and Sophia, Word and Wisdom. This book, an impressionistic history of the Western spiritual tradition, follows the traces — from ancient Greece into modern times — of those who sought to know the world and themselves, while realizing that they must overcome themselves to love the world and one another. ISBN: 1930337078 BOOK (PAPERBACK) CODHILL PRESS $19.95 304 PAGES

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WHEN DEATH ENTERS LIFE JOHN BAUM

“An informative and uplifting book written from long experience and understanding.” —SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK,

we prepare

for death? How can H we help others at the death OW CAN

of someone close? Anyone who has been present at someone’s death may have had the sense that a door is opened momentarily into another world. It is a moment that calls for quiet reverence. At the same time, meeting death comes as a shock, even though we know that the time will come when we will also face death. This inspiring book is for those facing their own death or those experiencing the death of someone close. It gathers thoughts, feelings, experiences, and observations about death, offering both spiritual and practical guidance. It will help prepare both those facing death and their caretakers. JOHN BAUM, Scottish by birth, is a priest of the Christian Community in Oslo, Norway. ISBN: 0863153895 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $17.95 160 PAGES

WHERE ARE YOU? Coming to Terms with the Death of My Child KARIN V. SCHILLING

SSaskia, -died’ instantly daughter, CHILLING S FOURTEEN YEAR OLD

in a car accident. Karin plunged into despair. This is her account of the long odyssey to understanding. The understanding she gains is not an abstract principle. Rather, she comes to experience the reality of Saskia’s spiritual presence. The path to this experience was not easy. Karin first overcame grief and made the decision not to forget and not to run from pain. Slowly she awoke to a feeling of Saskia’s presence. ISBN: 0880102683 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $7.95 85 PAGES 45

Reincarnation & Karma REINCARNATION

AND

KARMA

Two Fundamental Truths of Existence RUDOLF STEINER 5 Lectures, Berlin, Stuttgart, 1912 (CW 135) Introduction by Herbert Hagens

“Just as an age was once ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity.” —Rudolf Steiner

important lectures on reincarnation and karma, Steiner describes how to perceive the part of our being that passes through repeated earthly lives; how to develop feeling memory of reincarnation; karmic exercises; examples of how karma works between incarnations; and how knowledge of reincarnation and karma affects our moral life.

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REINCARNATION

AND IMMORTALITY

RUDOLF STEINER 5 lectures, various cities, 1916–1922; 1 essay, 1905

short introduction on Steiner’s life, the themes are developed in modern terms. Steiner shows that immortality is not just a continuation of life after death, but also involves a continuation of life in the spiritual world through reincarnation in the physical world. He shows how we can begin to understand the mysteries of reincarnation and immortality by developing our higher faculties of imagination, inspiration, and intuition. Steiner also explores the mysteries of the human being, human evolution, the nature of Anthroposophy, and social issues. This small book is an excellent introduction to Anthroposophy and Western concepts of reincarnation and karma.

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K ARMIC R ELATIONSHIPS S ERIES RUDOLF STEINER

end of his life, Steiner assumed

N his special destiny: to awaken the West to reincarnation and karma. He gave more than EAR THE

eighty lectures in 1924 to reveal the destinies of various individuals from one life to the next, to show how the laws of karma work in various cases. He also revealed the karmic streams of members of the Anthroposophical Society. Volume 1 12 lectures, Dornach, Feb. 16–Mar. 23, 1924 (CW 235)

An overview of karma. Considers the incarnations of Friedrich Nietzsche, Lord Bacon of Verulam, Lord Byron, and many others. ISBN: 0854402608 BOOK (HARDCOVER) $29.95 205 PAGES

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Volume 5 7 lectures, Prague, Paris, Mar.–May, 1924 (CW 239)

The difference between “moon karma” and “sun karma”; influences of Christian and Islamic thinking; the transformation of inner human qualities from one life to the next; and more. ISBN: 0854404325 BOOK (HARDCOVER) $29.95 128 PAGES

Volume 6 9 lectures, various cities, Jan 25–Jul. 20, 1924 (CWs 235, 236, 240)

Studies the karma of the anthroposophic movement and society; the spiritual gates of the Sun and Moon; and more.

Volume 2 16 lectures, Dornach, Apr. 6–Jun. 29, 1924 (CW 236)

Individual karmic relationships in history, such as Marx and Engels. Surveys karma in human life; the formation of karma after death; and the cosmic form of karma. ISBN: 0854402810 BOOK (HARDCOVER) $29.95 256 PAGES

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Volume 7 9 lectures, Breslau, June 7–15, 1924 (CW 239)

Volume 3 11 lectures, Dornach, Jul. 1–Aug. 8, 1924 (CW 237)

Discusses karmic relationships within the anthroposophic movement; predispositions that lead people to Anthroposophy; the two streams in the movement; Rosicrucianism; Islam; Aristotelianism; Platonism; and the School of Michael. ISBN: 0854403132 BOOK (HARDCOVER) $29.95 192 PAGES

Focuses on human experiences after death and before rebirth; karma in world history; the cosmic nature of Christ; waking, dreaming, sleeping; and the physical effects of karma. ISBN: 0854402764 BOOK (HARDCOVER) $29.95 148 PAGES

Volume 8 6 lectures, England, Aug. 12–27, 1924 (CW 240)

Subjects include cosmic Christianity; the Michael impulse; the Arthurian and Grail streams of wisdom; Gregory VII; Haeckel; Swedenborg; Loyola; Haroun al-Raschid; Byron; and Voltaire.

Volume 4 11 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 5–24, 1924 (CW 238)

Karmic groups of souls connected to Aristotelianism and Platonism; the karma of the anthroposophic movement; and individual incarnations. Includes Steiner’s last address.

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H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Spirit Worlds & Beings

MANIFESTATIONS

OF

KARMA

RUDOLF STEINER

REINCARNATION

IN

11 lectures, Hamburg May 16–28, 1910 (CW 120)

PIETRO ARCHIATI

people meet such different events and circumstances in life? What is behind diseases, accidents, and natural disasters? Steiner speaks of karma as a reality that, if we understand it, answers our deepest questions about life’s meaning and purpose. We create our own karma in every area of existence, laying the foundation in one incarnation for the next. Steiner tells us that the pattern runs through many lives and that we can gain a sense of purpose by recognizing that karma is always being resolved. Many areas of individual and world karma are discussed in this exciting volume.

Rudolf Steiner’s A approach to reincarna-

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A WESTERN APPROACH TO REINCARNATION AND KARMA Selected Lectures & Writings RUDOLF STEINER Edited & introduced by René Querido Foreword by Robert McDermott

QUERIDO presents

R an overview of the Western perspective of ENÉ

MODERN LIFE

Toward a New Christian Awareness

karma and rebirth, which he places in the context of Steiner’s spiritual science. He has selected Steiner’s most important lectures and writings on the causes and effects of karma in relation to world events, natural phenomena, illness, and more. Steiner also describes how we can understand our own karma in the light of past incarnations, and how we can take responsibility for our own destinies. RENÉ QUERIDO, former director of Rudolf Steiner College, had more than four decades of anthroposophic spiritual practice and esoteric study of biography. He was also a Waldorf teacher and general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America.

RCHIATI DESCRIBES

tion — one that is wholly relevant to Western consciousness and steeped in true Christianity. By applying and developing Steiner’s ideas, Archiati brings the concept of reincarnation to bear on many aspects of modern life, including such issues as abortion and rape. He addresses the question of whether reincarnation appears in the New Testament, and explains how we can understand theological problems such as Christ’s Resurrection and the resurrection of the body from this wider context. ISBN: 0904693880 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $19.95 136 PAGES

YOUR REINCARNATING CHILD Welcoming a Soul to the World GILBERT CHILDS & SYLVIA CHILDS

offer sound

Tadvice for all those who spend time with children HE AUTHORS

on how they can welcome those souls into the world and help them grow to become healthy, responsible adults. Mainstream educational policies and practices frequently cause children to be pushed prematurely into adulthood before they have a chance to experience true childhood. Gilbert and Sylvia Childs show that a true understanding of the human being as body, soul, and spirit leads to the knowledge that every child should be allowed to grow gradually and natually into the world. ISBN: 1855841266 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $20.00 192 PAGES

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Spirit Worlds & Beings ANGELS Selected Lectures RUDOLF STEINER Translated by A.R. Meuss

spiritual

R writings have always referred to beings from the ELIGIOUS AND

spiritual hierarchies, especially those known in Christian tradition as angels, who are the closest to human beings and who act as our invisible guides and companions. They influence individual lives as well as the evolution of humanity and the cosmos. Through clairvoyant vision, Steiner confirmed the existence of such beings and showed how modern minds could gain access to their world. It is crucial for the further development of humanity that we understand and cooperate with the work of the angels today. ISBN: 185584060X BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 192 PAGES

CHILDREN WHO COMMUNICATE BEFORE THEY ARE BORN Conversations with Unborn Souls DIETRICH BAUER, MAX HOFFMEISTER & HARTMUT GOERG

often experience a deep E connection to their unborn XPECTANT MOTHERS

child, knowing the baby’s appearance, character, or life path before giving birth. Many mothers are protective of such experiences and are unwilling to speak of them. The accounts here, gathered by three medical doctors, are all the more precious, therefore, for their frankness and sincerity. The authors also offer a comprehensive analysis that addresses difficult issues such as abortion and contraception, and the spiritual and scientific aspects of conception and birth. ISBN: 1902636686 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $26.00 256 PAGES

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Reincarnation & Karma

NATURE SPIRITS & WHAT THEY SAY

WHAT THE ANGELS NEED TO TELL US NOW

Interviews with Verena Holstein

Receiving, Considering & Acting on Their Messages

WOLFGANG WEIRAUCH, EDITOR

interviews, we hear the spirits of fire, air, water, and stone. We hear from spirits of glass, house, salt, paper, and silver. These spirits speak of their involvement with nature and their lack of human contact. They speak of cosmic secrets and about the past and future of humankind. They share views on the environment, on natural disasters, good and evil, and love and redemption. The interviews, some with the spirits themselves, reveal beautiful, sometimes disturbing, descriptions of our world.

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Collected by Margaret Jonas

stories of angelic Tintervention in human

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Selected Lectures

clairvoyant knowledge, Steiner explains that folk traditions of nature spirits are based on spiritual reality. People possessed a natural spiritual vision in ancient times, enabling them to commune with nature spirits. Those beings (also called elemental beings) became the fairies and gnomes of myth, legend, and children’s stories. Today, says Steiner, our understanding of elemental beings should be transformed into clear scientific knowledge. He asserts that humanity will not reconnect with the spiritual world until it develops a new relationship to the elemental world. Nature spirits want to assist us and act as emissaries of higher divine spiritual beings.

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first focuses on the author’s angelic guidance during her years as a Christian Community priest. Part two consists of messages received through her friend Agnes, whose ability to communicate with the angelic world is fully conscious. The messages she receives contain important guidance for humanity, including how to relate to angels and how to receive clear messages from them. Also included are answers to questions from the author on the Archangel Michael, the Apocalypse, and Jesus Christ. IRENE JOHANSON studied at the seminary of the Christian Community in Stuttgart and was ordained in 1956. She is the priest for the Munich congregation and lectures widely.

NATURE SPIRITS

ASED ON

Connecting with Our Spiritual Guides & Helpers

IRENE JOHANSON HE BOOK

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RUDOLF STEINER

GUARDIAN ANGELS

MORE MESSAGES ANGELS

FROM THE

Preparing to Receive, Verifying and Confirming the Truth IRENE JOHANSON

first section, Johanson offers valuable advice for the required inner preparation for receiving angelic messages properly. She explains how to distinguish among the spirits and how to know whether such information is genuine. She gives advice about transforming one’s life of soul and the forces of thinking, feeling, and volition. Part two presents messages containing advice, guidance, and insight to humanity. They address contemporary issues, including organ transplants, genetic modification, cloning, mad cow disease, nuclear energy, evil, catastrophes and disasters (including September 11), abortion, and more.

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many

life, but they are generally considered to be myths and superstitions. Steiner, spoke of guardian angels and other spirit beings in terms of concrete, scientific facts that can be researched and verified through spiritual research. One of his goals was to enable us to reconnect with these spirit beings, not only for our own benefit, but also for the benefit of the whole Earth and its evolution. Steiner intended to lead people from belief to knowledge and understanding of spirit beings. In these lectures, he describes the role of the guardian angel and discusses our relationship to the heavenly hierarchies of spiritual beings as a whole and how they shape our human form as a result of their cosmic activity. ISBN: 1855840731 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 144 PAGES

ENCOUNTERS

WITH

ANGELS

DAN LINDHOLM

have expe-

Mrienced moments in life when they have felt an ANY PEOPLE

invisible hand guiding their destiny, and there are also many recorded instances of dreams or visions of angels. The author has gathered accounts of these encounters from sources in various countries. ISBN: 086315137X BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $15.95 80 PAGES

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Esoteric Christianity ACCORDING

TO

MATTHEW

GENESIS

B a ck i n P r i n t !

The Gospel of Christ’s Humanity

Secrets of Creation

THE GOSPEL

RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Richard Smoley

RUDOLF STEINER

RUDOLF STEINER

11 lectures, Munich, August 16–26, 1910 (CW 122)

12 lectures, Berne, Sept. 1–12, 1910 (CW 123)

Introduction by B. Urieli; Translated by P. Wehrle

Introduction by Marie Steiner-von Sivers Translated by Maud B. Monges 12 lectures, Hamburg, May 5-31, 1908 (CW 103)

OR CENTURIES ,

people have been baffled by the varying accounts of Christ’s life in the four Gospels. Steiner addresses this question, showing how each presents a different lens onto Christ’s life and message. He reveals this Gospel as the one that emphasizes Christ’s humanity. Further, his visionary perspective traces Christ’s life and message to spiritual impulses that go back centuries, even millennia, to the legendary civilization of Atlantis, to the mysterious Zoroaster, and to the Jewish Essene sect. Richard Smoley’s introduction puts Steiner’s vision into perspective for modern readers. Previous translation: The Gospel of St. Matthew.

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ISBN: 0880105046 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 240 PAGES

ACCORDING

TO

LUKE

The Gospel of Compassion and Love Revealed RUDOLF STEINER 10 lectures, Basel, Sept. 15–26, 1909 (CW 114) Introduction by Robert McDermott

in these lectures the significance of the Christ for the spiritual development of humanity. He discusses the link between the Buddha and the Christ, which unites Buddhism and Christianity, and describes the relationship between the Greek mystery traditions and the Mystery of Golgotha. Previous translation: The Gospel of St. Luke.

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TEINER REVEALS

ISBN: 0880104880 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 224 PAGES

spiritual

F perception, Steiner presents a perspective on creation ROM DIRECT

beyond the polarized arguments between creationists and scientific reductionists. He describes the work of spiritual hierarchies in Earth’s creation and clarifies the relationship between the Elohim and the biblical Jehovah. He also discusses themes of light and darkness, the meaning of Adam and Eve, the “day of rest,” the stages of human development on Earth, and the special character of the Hebrew language. Includes a previously unpublished introductory lecture on the meaning of mystery drama. ISBN: 1855841029 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 192 PAGES

THE GOSPEL

OF

ST. MARK

RUDOLF STEINER 10 lectures, Basel, Sept. 1912 (CW 139) Introduction by Stewart Easton

Steiner, Mark was especially

able to reveal Christ as A a cosmic being of greatness CCORDING TO

and power. Having been a student of Peter, he moved to Alexandria at a time when Jewish philosophy and theology was at it’s peak and absorbed the best aspects and views of pagan gnosis. Mark learned how humankind arose from the spiritual world and how luciferic and ahrimanic forces are absorbed into human souls. He was able to accept everything he learned from pagan gnosis about our cosmic human origin when our planet first manifested. From his perspective in Egypt, Mark also saw the strong contrast between our original human destiny and what humankind had become. ISBN: 0880100834 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $12.95 232 PAGES

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OF

ST. JOHN

PENTECOST

D 1908—seven years after he had given URING

the world his book Christianity as Mystical Fact—Steiner began his great work of renewing humanity’s understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha and its meaning for human and earthly evolution. Accordingly, he turned to the deepest, most spiritual Gospel—that of the initiate St. John. In this lecture course, readers will find that the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Divine Word, or Logos, reveals the mission of the Earth: Love. We learn of the mysteries behind Lazarus’ resurrection, the “I AM” sayings, and the seven degrees of initiation. We come to understand that the Gospel of St. John is a continuing spiritual presence—to be recalled, meditated, and permeated with one’s own life. In doing so, we realized that our purpose—and that of all humankind—is to become the Virgin Sophia, a receptical for the Holy Spirit. ISBN: 0910142130 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $19.95 192 PAGES

BACKGROUND TO THE GOSPEL OF ST. MARK RUDOLF STEINER 13 lectures, 1910–1911 (CW 124)

the

Srelationship between Mark’s gospel and the TEINER STRESSES

“language of the macrocosm.” He also discusses the two main streams of post-Atlantean civilization, the purpose of our time, the laws of rhythm in the soul and spirit, and much more. ISBN: 0880101458 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $12.95 220 PAGES

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Books by Edward Reaugh Smith

dward Reaugh (pronounced “Ray”)

ESmith is an Illinoisan transplanted to Texas at mid-century. He is a husband,

father, and grandfather with broad interests in life. A successful lawyer and businessman, amateur musician, and athlete, his lifelong search for the deeper meaning of the Bible— which he taught for over twenty-five years before discovering the writings of Steiner— expresses itself in this extensive work. For more about this interesting, hard-working author and his books, please visit his website, “The Bible and Anthroposophy” (www.bibleandanthroposophy.com).

THE BURNING BUSH Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and the Holy Scriptures: An Anthroposophical Commentary on the Bible

Bible commentary incorpo-

the spiritual insights of Anthroposophy. TSmithratescombines his extensive knowledge of HIS REMARKABLE

traditional biblical scholarship with years of concentrated study of Steiner’s works. The Burning Bush deviates from the normal commentary mode, presenting a series of essays on terms and phrases of critical importance to a deeper comprehension of the biblical message. It includes an extensive bibliography of Steiner’s works as well as numerous charts, diagrams, and cross references, making this a tremendously valuable research tool. Edward Reaugh Smith lives in Lubbock, Texas. He is the author of five books, all available from SteinerBooks. ISBN: 0880104473 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $29.95 800 PAGES

DAVID’S QUESTION “What is Man?” [psalm 8]: Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and the Holy Scriptures

for a union of science and religion is

spiritual science. Sensory phenomena TshowSteiner’s us the physical world. By allowing phenomena HE MODEL

to speak to us instead of sinking into abstract theories, they are seen as images of the spirit world—as above, so below. At the heart of this work are “Fire” (where Earth and Heaven meet), “Light” (first form of corporeality from which all else follows), “Blood” (meeting point of inner and outer worlds), and “What Is Man?” (how beings of the higher worlds form the earthly vehicle for the human being). ISBN: 0880105003 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $29.95 560 PAGES

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THE SOUL’S LONG JOURNEY How the Bible Reveals Reincarnation

his amazing insights, showing

Show reincarnation is deeply and powerfully revealed in the Bible’s most fundamental aspects. MITH PRESENTS

How and why have these insights escaped attention for so long? Here they are finally uncovered by a confluence of conventional Bible study and the ground-breaking spiritual discoveries of Rudolf Steiner. With special emphasis on the organic provisions of the Old Testament, Smith shows both the assumptions of the Jesus’s hearers and how the New Testament confirms the ancient heritage. Arising from the fullness of the canon is an exciting story of the long journey of humanity and every human soul — each a “beloved sheep” whom the Creator is unwilling to lose. Combining a lifetime of biblical study and teaching, fifteen years investigating and contemplating Rudolf Steiner’s vast works, and almost three decades of applying the analytical skill required in an intense law practice, Smith has produced a potential classic the serious Bible student can ill afford to ignore. ISBN: 0880105356 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $19.95 360 PAGES

THE INCREDIBLE BIRTHS

OF

JESUS

the insights he discovered in Anthroposophy into the heart of mainstream Christianity. He focuses on the Nativity, offering a way to understand the significance of the Bible as the story of human development, from the distant past to the distant future.

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MITH BRINGS

ISBN: 0880104481 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 112 PAGES

THE DISCIPLE WHOM JESUS LOVED Unveiling the Author of John’s Gospel

the identity of John and

Christian initiation in a new way that is both Ssuggestive and conclusive. This small book is a MITH REVEALS

profound revolution in this field. If you wish to understand more deeply the mystery of Jesus Christ and his “beloved disciple,” this is must reading. ISBN: 0880104864 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 96 PAGES

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Books by Emil Bock

THREEFOLD MARY

SAINT PAUL

EMIL BOCK

Life, Epistles, and Teaching

Afterword by Michael Debus

EMIL BOCK

BOCK gave these three lectures during the 1950/51 Christmas Holy Nights under the title “The Mystery of the Virgin Mary in Body, Soul, and Spirit.” On November 1, 1950, Pius XII had proclaimed the Dogma of the Assumption—Mary’s bodily assumption into heaven—which sent shock waves around the Christian world at the time. C. G. Jung, for instance, wrote his Answer to Job in response. Bock’s response was these lectures, in which he tried to answer some of the issues, while broadening the scope to include not only the Mary-Sophia mystery in human history, but also the meaning of the feminine element in the evolution of consciousness. Emil Bock (1895–1959) was one of the foremost theologians of his day in Germany. He played an important role in starting The Christian Community, the movement for religious renewal, which he led from 1938 until his death.

BOCK’S STUDY gives a truly spiritual dimension to Paul’s background, offering a deeper understanding of this great Christian and his teaching. He shows that Paul carried Christianity beyond the Jewish communities and to humanity as a whole. As a zealot, Paul had been convinced he was serving the coming Messiah by persecuting Jesus’s followers, but when the light came to him near Damascus, his innermost being was opened to a new truth.

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MIL

ISBN: 088010533X BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $15.00 96 PAGES

THE APOCALYPSE

THE THREE YEARS Emil Bock

OF

SAINT JOHN

pictorial

J language is often seen as harsh and mysterious,

but Bock helps the reader understand that John deals with the universal problems of spiritual development. This is not merely a commentary on the Apocalypse, but a profound examination of human needs today. Bock shows how we can read the Revelation to understand Christ’s position as leader through danger, now and in the future. ISBN: 0863155391 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $30.00 208 PAGES

ISBN: 0863155367 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $30.00 384 PAGES

The Life of Christ between Baptism & Ascension

EMIL BOCK OHN ’S RICH,

In his epistles, Paul shows that the time of the Law of Moses had run its course and that conscience as “inner jurisdiction” was now supposed to replace the externally imposed rules and commandments of Mosaic and Judaic laws.

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rediscovers the healings and miracles of Christ for the skeptical mind without minimizing the inherent difficulties for modern minds. He brings together historical records and geographical background of the Gospels, while keeping in view their spiritual wisdom. Emil Bock sees the Gospel of John as giving the most precise record of the events of Christ’s three-year ministry, as well as being the Gospel with the deepest esoteric significance. This profound study reveals a new understanding of Jesus’ incarnation on earth. HE AUTHOR

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THE RHYTHM OF THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Renewing the Religious Cycle of Festivals EMIL BOCK

was

once deeply embedR ded in the natural ELIGIOUS LIFE

world, but today only Christmas and Easter remain as vague reminders of the connection between earthly and cosmic events. Emil Bock explores ways to deepen our understanding of the Christian festivals. If actively renewed, they would heighten our awareness of the Earth as a living organism and provide new energy for human society. Most important, festivals provide opportunities for a new understanding of the Christian mystery manifesting today—the appearance of Christ in the etheric realm. Nature is awaiting redemption through our work as human beings. Bock provides meditations to help us take up this spiritual responsibility. ISBN: 0863153089 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $32.00 240 PAGES

Coming Spring 2007 N o w i n Pap e r b a ck

KINGS

AND

PROPHETS

Saul, David, Solomon, Elijah, Jonah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah

that

the true pulse of B the spirit of the age OCK SHOWS

was beating among the Israelite Hebrews of the final pre-Christian millennium. They were the brightly illuminated center of world history, a focus for all human life and endeavors. He paints a picture of the Old Testament prophets that shows them being guided from above by the Christ spirit as they prepared the way for his human incarnation. In a parallel analogy, he shows how the prophets can help prepare our own souls to meet Christ. AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 1007

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Esoteric Christianity

THE APOCALYPSE

OF

ST. JOHN

FROM JESUS

TO

CHRIST

Lectures on the Book of Revelation

RUDOLF STEINER

RUDOLF STEINER

11 lectures, Karlsruhe, Oct. 4–14, 1911 (CW 131)

12 lectures, Nuremberg, June 17–30, 1908 (CW 104)

Steiner describes the problematic aspects of Christian theology, such as the resurrection of the physical body. He emphasizes the esoteric path to Christ and encourages us to awaken to the new revelation manifesting in our time—the Christ as “Lord of Karma.”

“The deepest truths of Christianity may be considered quite naturally in connection with this document, for it contains a great part of the mysteries of Christianity— that is, the profoundest part of what may be described as esoteric Christianity.” —Rudolf Steiner

that the

Smessages to the seven churches and the unsealing TEINER SHOWS

of the seven seals must be understood as an initiation text. Based on his initiation and on spiritual science, Steiner interprets John’s insights into cosmic and human history. In this way, the spiritual images of John’s writing—the twenty-four elders, the sea of glass, the woman clothed with the sun, the vials of wrath, the lamb and the dragon, the new heaven and the new Earth, and the number of the beast —all take on new meaning. ISBN: 0880101318 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 240 PAGES

ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY And the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz RUDOLF STEINER

intimate knowledge of his subject, Steiner brings esoteric, or Rosicrucian, Christianity into the light. He shows the influence of Christ’s power through history, the function and effects of karma, the role of the Buddha and bodhisattvas, and the vital work of Christian Rosenkreutz, Jeshu ben Pandira, and more.

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ITH AN

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ISBN: 1855841959 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 208 PAGES

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ticular, he throws light on issues of “incarnation and incorporation,” the nature of John the Baptist’s and John the Evangelist’s respective initiations, the significance of their mutual work at the “Turning Point of Time,” and its relevance to our present day. ISBN: 1902636678 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $15.00 48 PAGES

THE FIFTH GOSPEL From the Akashic Record RUDOLF STEINER

THE MYSTERY OF THE TWO JESUS CHILDREN And the Descent of the Spirit of the Sun BERNARD NESFIELD-COOKSON

GOSPELS give two

genealogies for TJesus,different and two accounts of HE

brief, enlightening book, Prokofieff

Iaddresses the mystery of the “two Johns” solving many unanswered questions. In par-

the Jesus’s birth are given by Matthew and Luke. The author uses the Bible, Christian apocrypha, the “Dead Sea Scrolls,” and other sources, especially statements by Rudolf Steiner, the first modern thinker to speak of the existence of two Jesus children. The author also refers to many works of art that appear to depict two Jesus children. Fifteen paintings are reproduced as beautiful, full-color plates. ISBN: 1902636651 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $20.00 112 PAGES

13 lectures, various cities, 1913–1914 (CW 148)

clairvoyant reading of the

akashic record — the Fcosmic memory of all ROM HIS

events, actions, and thoughts — Steiner was able to speak about aspects of the life of Jesus Christ not found in the four biblical Gospels. The results of this research have been called the “fifth gospel.” After an intense inner struggle to verify the exact nature of these events, and after checking the results of his research, Steiner described many detailed episodes from the akashic record. ISBN: 1855840391 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $24.00 264 PAGES

THE CHRISTIAN BOOK

OF THE

DEAD

Accompanying Their Journey after Death

THE MYSTERY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST & JOHN THE EVANGELIST AT THE TURNING POINT OF TIME An Esoteric Study SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

“The being who was present in Elijah appeared again at the most important moments of human evolution on Earth . . . so that Jesus Christ himself could give him the initiation he was to receive for the evolution of humankind. For the being of Elijah reappeared in Lazarus-John.” —Rudolf Steiner

MARGAREET VAN DEN BRINK & HANS STOLP

have had “near death” experi-

ences tell of a world of light, others tell M of profound encounters with deceased friends ANY WHO

and family. Drawing on personal experience, the authors describe seven steps into the world of light. They also draw on spiritual Christian traditions—mostly ignored by mainstream Christianity—to offer timely insights into what happens after death. ISBN: 1903458315 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $27.00 160 PAGES

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Esoteric Christianity

THE BEGINNINGS

OF

CHRISTIANITY

Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation, and the Christian Vision ANDREW WELBURN

current of early Christianity is reflected in the New Testament writings of Mark, Paul, and, above all, John. Gnostic Christians tried to preserve this tradition, using the archaic mysteries as a way to know (gnosis) cosmic truths. But they were suppressed by an orthodoxy that, the author concludes, had lost sight of the “dynamic of the self.” The full scope of the traditions on which the Gnostics drew is clearer following the finds at Qumran and Nag Hammadi. The boundaries have started to fade between the ancient pagan mysteries, Jewish tradition and early Christian belief. Welburn discovers a real kinship between this present age and the early Christians, and shows how, in a way not possible for the Reformation Church, we now have the chance to rediscover the spiritual world and the meaning of Christian origins.

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HE ESOTERIC

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NECESSARY EVIL Origin and Purpose

HANS-WERNER SCHROEDER

Rudolf

Steiner’s philosophy, D the author shows that RAWING ON

the roots of evil lie with angelic beings. Schroeder discusses the prehistory of evil in heaven and shows how the polarity of two kinds of evil — with good as the balance — manifests in earthly history, education, work, human relationships, sexuality, religion, and technology. Schroeder considers how prayer, meditation, and angelic guidance through reincarnation allow us to overcome evil in all its forms. ISBN: 086315476X BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 224 PAGES

SEEING CHRIST IN SICKNESS AND HEALING PETER SELG

who are in

contact with peoFpledaily who are ill or in need, OR THOSE

there may be a tendency to forget the larger purpose of healing because of a need to focus on the daily mechanics of healthcare. Selg shows how anthroposophic therapies draw heavily on the Christian concept of healing as seen in the Christian Bible. He suggests that, through meditation, healers and caregivers can allow the healing power of Christ to work through them by recognizing that sickness is part of a person’s destiny and that healing can help realize the purpose in one’s life. Nurses, caregivers, social workers, therapists, counselors, and doctors can all benefit from this insightful book. ISBN: 0863154778 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $29.50 160 PAGES

THE BIBLE’S HIDDEN COSMOLOGY GORDON STRACHAN

to the principles of ancient cosmology, that is, how the biblical writers viewed the universe, the author reveals a new understanding of the Bible. He uses the disciplines of music theory, astronomy and astrology, numerology, and sacred geometry to uncover hidden wisdom and allow the ancient secrets of the Bible to shine through. This book gives readers a deeper understanding of ancient wisdom traditions and a new respect for the implicit coding of the Bible. Thirty-five black and white illustrations

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Y RETURNING

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CHRONICLE

OF THE

LIVING CHRIST

The Life & Ministry of Jesus Christ: Foundations of Cosmic Christianity ROBERT POWELL

work

the visions of TAnneusesCatherine Emmerich HIS PIONEERING

and the spiritual discoveries of Rudolf Steiner to establish the dates of daily events in the life of Jesus Christ. Part one gives a historical overview. Then, using esoteric sources and sidereal astrology, Powell offers insights into the birth of Christ. He also gives a daily chronicle of the three-and-ahalf–year ministry of Jesus, dating the events with an unprecedented accuracy. He correlates significant events in Christ’s life with future dates. ISBN: 0880104074 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 464 PAGES

FINGAL’S CAVE

the Poems of Ossian, and Celtic Christianity PAUL M. ALLEN & JOAN DERIS ALLEN

isolated

O island of Staffa, near Iona, Scotland, stands a N THE

natural wonder—Fingal’s Cave, an extraordinary Cathedral-like space, whose sides and roof are hexagonal basaltic columns and its floor the ocean, playing constantly music with the tides. The cave has been a source of spiritual insight and artistic inspiration for centuries. To understand Fingal’s influence in Celtic culture, we must understand his poems of Ossian and the development of Celtic Christianity. The authors show why his works have influenced such diverse figures as Mendelssohn, Jefferson, Napoleon, and Turner. ISBN: 0826411444 BOOK (HARDCOVER) CONTINUUM $24.95 284 PAGES

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Esoteric Christianity

GIVE US THIS DAY

THE NINTH CENTURY & THE HOLY GRAIL

JESUS,

The Story of Prayer RUFUS GOODWIN

WALTER JOHANNES STEIN

GORDON STRACHAN

Foreword by Robert Sardello

Introduction by John Matthews

the start of Jhisbefore ministry at the age

prayer

“the key of the morning G and the bolt of the eveANDHI CALLED

ning.” But what is a prayer? Do you need to believe in God in order to pray? Are the words important? What is the difference between prayer and meditation? Should you ask for things when you pray? Do prayers really change the world around us? Rufus Goodwin — writer, linguist, and former United Press correspondent to the Vatican — addresses these and other questions about prayer in this thoughtful book. He examines the various traditions of prayer through the ages. He discusses practices, ranging from the ancient Indian yoga of sound to the Christian monastic rules of prayer, giving examples of the various religious litanies that ritualize and celebrate the sense of a higher life. Goodwin’s intention is not to compare different traditions, but to get at the essential technique and the attitude of prayer — its cognitive dynamics. Prayer is seen as key to an active inner life and an experience of the higher self. He shows us how prayer can bring about a cognitive restructuring that provides greater access to renewal, imagination, inspiration, and intuition, and provides an anchor for meaning in daily life. Rufus Goodwin, a native of New York City, graduated from Yale University and received an advanced degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University. He was a veteran of the Korean War and served as a foreign correspondent with United Press International in the 1960s. He was assigned to the Vatican while working for UPI and covered Pope Paul VI’s first papal trip to the Holy Land in 1964. Later he was a freelance writer in Switzerland and England before returning to the U.S. in the 1980s. He was the author of numerous books. Rufus died in 2005. ISBN: 0940262967 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $19.95 256 PAGES

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of Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach offers groundbreaking insights into the mystery of the Grail. Stein searches historical records and identifies individuals and events and reveals Eschenbach’s spiritual messages. Includes an index and 38 pages of illustrations. Dr W. J. Stein was a personal student of Rudolf Steiner. Through the use of unconventional research methods and concepts of reincarnation and karma, he developed revolutionary new insights into the mystery of the Grail.

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HIS STUDY

ISBN: 1902636228 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $32.00 384 PAGES

THE HOPE

OF THE

WORLD

Contemplations and Aphorisms RUDOLF FRIELING Compiled by Werner Bril

helps the

soul to contemplate the Tpresence of the risen Christ HIS COLLECTION

and to experience the peace and power of certainty. This collection is thus a signpost to a new understanding of Christianity. Alongside his basic theological works, Rudolf Frieling left a large body of essays from which Werner Bril has gathered and selected this important material. Rudolf Frieling (1901–1986) was born in Leipzig, Germany. He studied theology and philosophy and was a founder of The Christian Community in 1922 and, from 1960 until his death, was its leader. He wrote several books on Christianity and the Bible. ISBN: 0863153445 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $14.95 96 PAGES

THE

MASTER BUILDER

Druid Mysteries & the Dawn of Christianity ESUS ’ ACTIVITIES

of thirty have always been the subject of impassioned speculation. Legend suggests that Jesus traveled to the British Isles with Joseph of Arimathea, a tin trader. Beginning with the legends, the author uncovers fascinating connections between the Celts and Mediterranean culture and philosophy. Taking the biblical image of “Wisdom as the Master Craftsman,” Strachan explores the deep layers of Mystery knowledge shared between the world of the Jews and Greeks and that of the northern Druids. Gordon Strachan teaches in the Department of Architecture and the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Church of Scotland minister. He is also the author of Chartres (Floris, 2003). ISBN: 0863152953 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $32.00 302 PAGES

DEEPER SECRETS HISTORY

IN

HUMAN

In the Light of the Gospel of St. Matthew RUDOLF STEINER 3 lectures, Berlin, November 1–23, 1909 (CW 117)

the

of Christ Sin thefourfouraspects Gospels, with TEINER EXAMINES

a special emphasis on the Gospel of Matthew. Topics include; Jesus Christ as a being of light and love; the spiritual power of the physical sun; recognizing divinity without clairvoyance; changing human consciousness as shown in the Bible; the mission of the ancient Hebrews; the preparations for an understanding of the Christ mystery; and more. ISBN: 0880101326 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $6.95 80 PAGES

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Esoteric Christianity

BECOMING AWARE

OF THE

LOGOS

ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

The Way of St. John the Evangelist

And the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz

GEORG KÜHLEWIND

RUDOLF STEINER

places the reader in the world of living thinking and cognitive love. It teaches the way of grace and truth in a radical, original manner. For the Logos, although it is the ground of any true logic, is beyond ordinary dialectic. The author approaches his subject by developing central themes such as the logos as speech and relationship, the logos in the beginning, the light in the darkness, the speaker, life, spirit, grace, and truth.

23 lectures, Sept. 1911–May 1912 (CW 130)

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GNOSIS

The Mysteries & Christianity: An Anthology of Essene, Gnostic & Christian Writings ANDREW WELBURN

DEAD Sea Scrolls, Nag Hammadi, and other early texts have shed new light on the emerging faith of the first Christians. They reveal that early Christians drew inspiration from a number of sources — Judaic tradition, the Essenes, and other gnostic sects. Welburn presents the most important early texts, along with commentary.

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THE COSMIC CHRIST HANS-WERNER SCHROEDER

the cosmic dimen-

Ssion of Christ in the New Testament and the development of human consciousness in CHROEDER SUMMARIZES

relation to the Logos, examining how we are to engage in a natural, conscious relationship with the Christ. ISBN: 0863152600 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $32.00 256 PAGES

Foreword by Marie Steiner

to outer Christianity, there is an “esoteric” Rosicrucian stream of Christian thought and development. Steiner sheds light on this oncesecret spiritual movement. Rather than relying on historical tradition or history, he presents wisdom and insight directly from the original metaphysical sources of esoteric Christian inspiration. Steiner describes the influence of Christ’s power throughout history, the activity and functions of karma, the role of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas, as well as the vital work of Christian Rosenkreutz and other historical figures such as Jeshu ben Pandira. This book features classic lectures such as “Facing Karma,” “The Death of a God and Its Fruits in Humanity,” “The Etherization of the Blood,” “Faith, Love, Hope,” and “Cosmic Ego and Human Ego.”

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FROM CHRISTIANITY

The Threefold Shadow-Existence of Our Time and the New Light of Christ RUDOLF STEINER 8 lectures, Dornach, Dec. 1918–Jan. 1919 (CW 187)

Christ be expe-

rienced in one’s soul? CSteiner says that we can AN THE

take “spiritual thoughts and cosmic powers” into our souls, not as theories or teaching, but in such a way that the soul is moved to its very depths, warmed and illuminated by spiritual life. The goal is “to overcome self-seeking through love, the sham of life through truth, illness through health-giving thoughts that put us into immediate accord with the harmonies of the universe.” Steiner also examines the inner history of Christianity, explaining its relationship to ancient Judaism, Hellenism, Romanism, Gnosticism, and Egypto-Chaldean initiation. ISBN: 0880100796 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 192 PAGES

THE HOLY GRAIL & TO

CHRIST

Christianity as the Essence of Humanity in Rudolf Steiner’s Science of the Spirit PIETRO ARCHIATI

usually think

W of as Christianity is really its cultural form, HAT WE

HOW CAN MANKIND FIND THE CHRIST AGAIN?

developed during the last two millennia and representing human thoughts and dogmas, institutions, churches, and beliefs — all developed as responses to the Christ event. Based on Steiner’s statement that Christianity “started as a religion but is greater than all religions,” the author takes us from the “all-too-human” Christianity to “Christian” Christianity and its future development through spiritual science. ISBN: 090469383X BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $19.95 128 PAGES

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EUCHARIST

SERGEI BULGAKOV Introduction by Fr. Robert Slesinski Afterwords by Constantin Andronikof & Caitlin Matthews

Orthodox

theologian and Tsophiologist discusses HE EMINENT

the Holy Grail, the chalice used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch Jesus’ blood and water as it flowed from his side when it was pierced by the spear of Longinus. His essay on John 19:34 reveals that the Earth, and hence the human universe, is the Grail wherein Christ lives forever. This book is a priceless gift that enriches our understanding of the Christian mystery and two of its deepest aspects, the Grail and the Eucharist. ISBN: 0940262819 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $14.95 160 PAGES

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Esoteric Christianity

THE VOICE

OF THE

EAGLE

The Heart of Celtic Christianity: John Scotus Eriugena’s Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John CHRISTOPHER BAMFORD Foreword by Thomas Moore

Christopher Bamford has written a wonderful book. It combines a rigour of scholarship with a lyrical unveiling of how this wonderful text of Eriugena’s can resonate with the hungers and discoveries of our times. It deserves a wide readership. Its lucid depths enrich the mind and awaken the heart to the grandeur of light where the eternal shines. —John O’Donohue, author of Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

SCOTUS Eriugena

J was born and raised in Ireland during the early OHN

ninth century. Neither monk nor priest but a “holy sage,” he carried the flower of Celtic Christianity to France. His homily, The Voice of the Eagle, is a jewel of lyrical mysticism, theology, and cosmology, containing the essence of Celtic Christian wisdom. Christopher Bamford’s reflections “unpack” the luminous, life-giving meaning implicit in this purest of Christian traditions. ISBN: 0970109709 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $16.95 228 PAGES

THE NEW SPIRITUALITY

And the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century RUDOLF STEINER 7 lectures, Dornach, Oct. 1920 (CW 200)

the development of con-

and the human soul through hisStorysciousness and describes the need for new methods TEINER TRACES

of inner development if we are to perceive spiritual realities today. He tells us how new forces of spiritual perception are awaking, through which humanity will perceive the activity of Christ in the etheric. ISBN: 0880102136 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 128 PAGES ISBN: 0880102128 HARDCOVER $20.00

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THE REAPPEARANCE OF CHRIST IN THE ETHERIC

THE TWELVE HOLY NIGHTS & THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES

RUDOLF STEINER

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

13 selected lectures, 1910–1917

Pon Rudolf Steiner’s work and his own spiriROKOFIEFF DRAWS

Introduction by Stephen Usher

ACTS of the Apostles

Christ’s AscenTsion:describes “And a cloud received HE

him out of their sight.” As the disciples looked up, two angels appeared and told them that “this same Jesus, taken up from you into heaven, shall come again in the same way as you have seen him go.” Steiner began a series of lectures in 1910, announcing the advent of Christ’s appearance in the sphere of the Earth’s etheric, life body. Initially, only a few will be aware of it, but in time, more and more people—regardless of religious affiliation—will be strengthened, comforted and infused by the Christ’s living presence. According to Steiner, a new natural clairvoyance he calls “Damascus experiences” will become increasingly common. Includes a lecture on the “etherization of the blood.” ISBN: 0880105194 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $19.95 256 PAGES

THE MYSTERY TINTAGEL

OF

THE REALITIES

OF

PRAYER help us

Ppenetrate higher realities and transform our lives. RAYER CAN

ARTHUR

AT

distinguishes clearly the substance

Arthurian mysteries, which origiTnatedof intheBritain in pre-Christian times, from

that of the Grail, which came from the East at the time of Christ. ISBN: 0854404368 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.95 196 PAGES

THE NEW TESTAMENT JON MADSEN, ENGLISH RENDERING ADSEN, A

priest of the Christian Community, has attempted to recover the overtones and subtleties of the original language of the New Testament, making it more transparent for the general reader.

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GILBERT CHILDS

RICHARD SEDDON HIS BOOK

tual research to imagine the cosmic forces at play between Christmas and Epiphany. He leads the reader through the zodiac and spiritual hierarchies and shows how they form a path from Jesus to Christ and that the starry script is a key to anthroposophic Christology and to the first Goetheanum, whose structure and decorations constitute an esoteric map. The task is to rebuild that building in ourselves and to work toward a new path of initiation. Supplementary essays focus on the cosmic aspects of Sophia as well as the being of Michael.

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Gilbert Childs shows the relationship between prayer and meditation. He looks at the different forms of prayer and their effects on our higher bodies. He also explores the connections between the Lord’s Prayer and the Ten Commandments. ISBN: 1855840154 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 112 PAGES

CHRIST

AND THE

SON

OF

MAN

WILHELM KELBER

himself “the Son of Man,”

a title that has never been fully explained. CKelber shows that esoteric knowledge can illuHRIST CALLED

minate these references in sacred literature. Wilhelm Kelber (1901–1967) was a founding priest of the Christian Community and worked in Germany. ISBN: 0863152511 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $14.95 128 PAGES

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Sophia

B a ck i n P r i n t !

THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN AND ITS RELATION TO THE OTHER GOSPELS RUDOLF STEINER Translated by Samuel & Loni Lockwood Revised by Maria St. Goar 14 lectures, Kassel, June 24–July 7, 1909 (CW 112)

talks, Rudolf Steiner offers his profound insights into the essential truths behind the Christ event, as well as the historic and prehistoric events—on Earth and in the spiritual worlds—leading up to the turning point in time. He shows that the ancient mysteries of the East, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the streams behind those impulses—going back to Atlantis and Lemuria—all lead to the event of Christ’s incarnation and the Mystery of Golgotha, through which the Earth became the body of Christ. Further, Steiner talks about what those events mean for the future of humanity and the Earth. The Gospel of St. John and Its Relation to the Other Gospels is an essential document in the literature of Christology and for understanding the central place of esoteric Christianity for Rudolf Steiner in Anthroposophy.

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RELIGION

An Introductory Reader RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Andrew Welburn

collection, Steiner

Idiscusses topics such as: mysticism and beyond: the N THIS

importance of prayer; the meaning of sin and grace; rediscovering the Bible; true communion; rediscovering the festivals and the life of the Earth; finding one’s destiny; walking with Christ; the significance of religion in life and death; Christ’s second coming; the truth for our time; universal religion; and the meaning of love.

PATHS OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES From Compostela to the New World VIRGINIA SEASE & MANFRED SCHMIDT-BRABANT ECENTLY, THERE

has been an upsurge of interest in “the Camino,” the pilgrim’s route to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. The authors insist that we live in a time of spiritual quest, discovery, and change and that primal memories are beginning to emerge in human consciousness. Based on long research and contemplation, the authors present a survey of extraordinary breadth and depth. Focusing on the spiritual history of humankind, they begin with the cosmic origin of the Grail Mysteries and culminate with the suprasensory Michael cultus and the being of Anthroposophia.

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NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES RUDOLF FRIELING

by looking at the nature of the Gospels and the accounts of healings contained in them. With close attention to the details of the text, he brings alive the events of Christ’s life and shows how the Gospels can be directly related to the events and problems of everyday life. He concludes with a consideration of agape, the divine love in the Gospel of St. John. Rudolf Frieling, together with Friedrich Rittelmeyer and Emil Bock, laid the theological foundations of the Christian Community.

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RIELING BEGINS

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Sophia ISIS MARY SOPHIA Her Mission and Ours RUDOLF STEINER Edited and introduced by Christopher Bamford

divine

Thas had many names: Ishtar in Babylon, Inanna HE FEMININE

in Sumeria, Athena, Hera, Demeter, and Persephone in Greece, Isis in Egypt, Durga, Kali, and Lakshmi in India. She is the Shekinah of cabalists, and the Sophia of gnosticism. According to Steiner, she is Anthroposophia (Divine Wisdom), who descended from the spiritual world and passed through humanity to become now the goal and archetype of human wisdom in the cosmos. This book contains most of Steiner’s statements on Sophia. Each chapter explores the mystery of the different relationships of Sophia: Sophia and Isis, Sophia and the Holy Spirit, Sophia and Mary, the mother of Jesus (and Mary Magdalene), Sophia and the Gnostic Achamod, and Sophia and the New Isis. Above all, in a remarkable way, Steiner makes clear the relationship of Christ and Sophia. ISBN: 0880104945 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $24.95 224 PAGES

PISTIS SOPHIA

A Gnostic Gospel G. R. S. MEAD

of

the Gnostic religious Tdocument was the most HIS TRANSLATION

influential of all Gnostic studies before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library. Contents include: Documents & General Literature of Gnosticism; Probable History of the Treatise; Jesus Hitherto Instructeth His Disciples Only up to the Region of the First Mystery; Treasure of Light; Confusion of the Powers & the Great Earthquake; Mystery of the Five Words on the Vesture; and more. ISBN: 0893450456 BOOK (PAPERBACK) GARBER BOOKS $25.00 368 PAGES 57

Sophia

THE FALL

OF

SOPHIA

A Gnostic Text on the Redemption of Universal Consciousness VIOLET MACDERMOT Foreword by Stephan A. Hoeller OPHIA [THE

world soul] fell from her place in the heavens to the chaos below. . . .” Sophia is among the most haunting and mysterious figures in Western spirituality. She is also one of the great symbols of the divine feminine in world civilization. The personification of divine Wisdom, Sophia is praised in the biblical book of Proverbs as co-creator of the universe with God. In the secret teachings of early Christianity known as Gnosticism, she represents our shared consciousness, trapped in the material world as a result of the Fall. One of the most sublime Gnostic texts is the Pistis Sophia or “Faith Wisdom,” a great allegory in which the resurrected Christ explains how he freed the divine Sophia from her imprisonment by the forces of spiritual wickedness. Christ goes on to show his disciples how they will share in this cosmic act of redemption. In this profound yet accessible work, Egyptologist Violet MacDermot gives us a fresh translation of the Pistis Sophia from the Coptic and discusses it in its historical setting. She also shows us how Sophia’s story is our story. It is a tale of our separation and isolation as a result of “I” consciousness, but it is one in which we, too, can share spiritual liberation. Her engaging discussion relates this work not only to ancient teachings but to the thought of C. G. Jung, Emanuel Swedenborg, and the Kabalah. Violet MacDermot studied Egyptology at University College, London, and was a board member of the Egypt Exploration Society. She has translated two Coptic texts, volumes 9 and 13 in the “Nag Hammadi Studies” series: Pistis Sophia and The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex.

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THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE IN THE MYSTERY STREAM OF HUMANITY

THE MOST HOLY TRINOSOPHIA

Towards a New Culture of the Family

& the New Revelation of the Divine Feminine

MANFRED SCHMIDT-BRABANT & VIRGINIA SEASE

ROBERT POWELL

maintain that, during ancient times, people experienced the divine as imbued with the archetypal feminine. Their spirit world was populated by goddesses, thus they honored women as priestesses and guardians of sacred rites. The Greeks and Romans, by contrast, were patriarchal. More recently, we have seen an emancipation of the feminine, but patriarchy still dominates our Western culture. By considering the mystery behind human and earthly evolution, the authors come to clear perspectives that can help transform human life today.

Introduction by Carol E. Parrish-Harra

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LECTURES

ON

DIVINE HUMANITY

VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV OPHIA , WHOM

Solovyov experienced three times in his life, inspires this great work. He conceives Sophia in a variety of ways: as the eternal ideal prototype of humanity, as the world soul actively engaged in actualizing this idea, and as the fully developed divinehuman being. This Sophia is both the active principle in the process of creation and its realized goal: the kingdom of God. Solovyov speaks movingly of the actualization of “divine humanity” in eternity and time, of the divine world and the fall of spiritual beings into sin, of the origin and meaning of the natural world, and the incarnation of Christ, leading to the redemption of the visible and invisible worlds in the full revelation of divine humanity.

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that

Western civilization P is making a long-term, OWELL SUGGESTS

radical shift toward conscious incorporation of Sophianic wisdom. Sophia is interpreted as a Trinity—Mother, Daughter, and Holy Soul—as well as the feminine aspect of the Divine Godhead. Powell also draws on the teaching of the Sophianic Russian philosopher Pavel Florensky, and on the work of the modern Russian mystic Daniel Andreev, author of The Rose of The World, who beheld the Divine Sophia’s gradual approach to the Earth. ISBN: 0880104805 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 144 PAGES

SOPHIA

The Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology SERGEI BULGAKOV

a great hunger

the feminine Taspectto recover of the Divinity. But HERE IS

much searching has left Christians disappointed and seeking the “Goddess” elsewhere. In this brave theological work, Bulgakov shows how the Divine Sophia, in whom all things are created, is present in the Holy Trinity itself and how, as the “creaturely Sophia,” she works together with her divine counterpart in the work of the Holy Spirit for the redemption of the world. Sergei Bulgakov (1879–1944) is considered by some to be the greatest Russian Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century. During the 1920s, following in the footsteps of Vladimir Solovyov and Pavel Florensky, be began to develop a profound and original vision of Sophia. ISBN: 0940262606 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $17.95 224 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

The Cycle of the Year THE ILLUSTRATED CALENDAR OF THE SOUL Meditations for the Yearly Cycle RUDOLF STEINER

meditative verses for the yearly cycle have been used by countless people over the years. Their purpose is to awaken one’s feelings to nature’s cycles and stimulate self-discovery. Rudolf Steiner’s original meditations facilitate this process, leading to a healthy feeling of unity with the natural world through the year. This edition features Anne Stockton’s fiftytwo celebrated and evocative paintings, a wonderful complement to the text. John Thomson has translated Steiner’s words especially for this edition. ISBN: 1902636627 BOOK (HARDCOVER) 4 ¾ X 6 ¾ TEMPLE LODGE $25.00 112 PAGES OF THE

RUDOLF STEINER

(CW 40)

HESE BEAUTIFUL ,

THE CYCLE

THE FESTIVALS & THEIR MEANING

Facimile edition of the original book containing the calendar created by Rudolf Steiner for the year 1912–1913 RUDOLF STEINER

Images by Anne Stockton Translated by John Thomson

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CALENDAR 1912–1913

SEASONS

And the Seven Liberal Arts

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of a “calendar” that begins with his suggestion that a calendar is a way of connecting past and future, Earth and cosmos. It is important to get a sense of the movements of the Sun and Moon in relation to planets and stars, to bring the past into the present by invoking great beings in the evolution of consciousness on their birth and death days, and to celebrate the holy days. Steiner designed new images for each month, traced the phases of the moon, and specified significant people, events and festivals for each day. The introduction describes the original “calendar” and how it came to be. Included is a reproduction of the original, a translation of Steiner’s introduction, and the Calendar of the Soul. ISBN: 0880105348 BOOK (PAPERBACK) 6 ¼ X 10 ¼ STEINERBOOKS $30.00 160 PAGES

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

“The great ideal of the synthesis of science, art, and religion, already prepared over the centuries in the true Rosicrucian communities, can then increasingly become a reality. . . . In the course of time, a community or association will arise on the Earth that dwells in full harmony with the cosmic-spiritual forces and is able to draw its power directly from the cosmos, thus forming a cosmic gateway upon the Earth.” —Sergei Prokofieff

small book, Prokofieff offers his

Iideas for establishing a connection between the various arts, the cycle of the seasons and N THIS

the festivals.

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STEINER’S

R Calendar of the Soul first appeared as the second part

THE CYCLE OF THE YEAR AS A PATH OF INITIATION Leading to an Experience of the Christ Being SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

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ROKOFIEFF DISCUSSES

the esoteric realities of the seven Christian festivals and shows that they are spiritual facts that exist independently of religious traditions and cultural customs. Working with the festivals in an esoteric sense can provide a true path of initiation, ultimately enabling individuals to experience the true being of the Earth, Christ. ISBN: 0904693708 BOOK (HARDCOVER) TEMPLE LODGE $60.00 496 PAGES

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twenty-nine of Steiner’s most

important lectures on the festivals. He H describes the true meaning behind the major ERE ARE

festivals of the Christian year and shows that they are more than commemorations of historical events in the Christian tradition—they are yearly spiritual events that carry a growing significance. ISBN: 1855840456 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $30.00 400 PAGES

THE EASTER FESTIVAL in the Evolution of the Mysteries RUDOLF STEINER 4 lectures, Dornach, April 1924 (CW 233a)

S leads us to an understandof the true meaning of Easter by tracing Rits inghistory from the pre-Christian era to our UDOLF

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time. He shows that it is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come to understand our relationship to spiritual reality. ISBN: 088010256X BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $7.95 62 PAGES

THE FOUR SEASONS AND THE ARCHANGELS RUDOLF STEINER 5 lectures, Dornach, October 5–13, 1923 (GA 223, 229)

find a wealth of material for fruit-

Oful meditation in these profound studies of the cosmic forces behind the four great festiNE CAN

vals of the year. Rudolf Steiner presents great imaginative pictures that unite Heaven and the Earth through a portrayal of the activities of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. In the course of the lectures Steiner offers spiritual wisdom on subjects that include the alchemical processes of sulphur, mercury, and salt in the cosmos; human beings and plants; spiritual combustion processes; crystals; clouds; meteors; the movements of elemental beings in nature; and the conflicting efforts of the two great adversaries to divert humanity and the Earth from their proper purpose. ISBN: 1855840502 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $17.95 88 PAGES 59

Nutrition, Health & Therapies New!

HOME NURSING

FOR

CARERS

TINEKE VAN BENTHEIM

of home

nursing are covered A by the author, including LL ASPECTS

the arrangement of the patient’s room, meals, taking a temperature, and washing the patient. She also details holistic treatments, such as herbal and plant remedies, baths, foot baths, compresses, and poultices. Also included are sections specifically on pregnancy, birth, sleep, nursing the terminally ill, and death. Here is a comprehensive guide for holistic home care, especially for those nursing children and adults through an illness. Previous edition published as Caring for the Sick At Home. Tineke van Bentheim has worked for many years as an anthroposophical nurse in the Netherlands. ISBN: 0863155413 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $19.95 160 PAGES

AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOSOPHICAL MEDICINE Extending the Art of Healing VICTOR BOTT, M.D.

BOTT offers an overview of this remarkable medicine. He presents a new approach to understanding various types of diseases, including a discussion on the stages of human development; the roles of organs such as the lungs, liver, kidneys, and heart; specific diseases; and indications about why people become ill. He also discusses the increasing prevalence of cancer and specific phenomena such as the menstrual cycle.

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HEALTHY MEDICINE A Guide to the Emergence of Sensible, Comprehensive Care ROBERT ZIEVE, M.D.

ZIEVE presents a new paradigm for health care that shows us how to go beyond the limitations and severe deficiencies of our current sickness care system. It embraces and synthesizes the emerging models of integrative medicine, energy medicine, and energy psychology into an effective and affordable approach to healing for everyone. This guide is for both those wish to provide a more complete form of health care for their patients and also for those individuals who are prepared to make the necessary changes in daily life in order to initiate or maintain a movement toward healing.

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BROKEN VESSELS The Spiritual Structure of Human Frailty

New Editions!

INTRODUCING ANTHROPOSOPHICAL MEDICINE RUDOLF STEINER Introduction by Dr. Steven M. Johnson Translated by Catherine E. Creeger 20 lectures, Mar. 21–Apr. 9, 1920, Dornach (CW 312)

the

Spossibility of truly integrating medicine TEINER SHOWS

for the whole person of body, soul, and spirit. In addition to modern medicine, he is deeply versed in alchemy, naturopathy, homeopathy, and other so-called alternative therapies. Discussions include the meaning of sickness; polarities in the human organism; the relationship between therapy and pathology; and plants, minerals, and animals in relation to human beings. Steiner also discusses specific organs and diseases. ISBN: 0880104635 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $24.95 356 PAGES AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2006

RUDOLF STEINER Foreword by Michael Lipson, Ph.D.

THE HEALING PROCESS

11 lectures, Sept. 8–18, 1924, Dornach (CW 318)

Spirit, Nature & Our Bodies

Steiner, true healing is impossible unless it includes every dimension of a human being—both visible and invisible. To meet inner frailty with truly adequate concepts, Steiner describes specific inner structures of both healthy and unhealthy states that escape ordinary perception. He suggests ways to approach misalignments of abnormal inner structures and psychic difficulties, using what he calls “pastoral medicine”—holistic healing that brings together body and soul and helps them function in effective and powerful ways. Previous edition: Pastoral Medicine

RUDOLF STEINER

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CCORDING TO

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Preface by Richard Leviton Introduction by Christopher Bamford Translation by Catherine E. Creeger 11 lectures, Aug. 28, 1923–Aug. 29, 1924 (CW 319)

Sfundamental principles of anthroposophic mediTEINER INTRODUCES

cine. He covers numerous practical topics, making this volume an excellent companion to Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine.

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THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE An Outline of a Spiritual Scientifically Oriented Medicine, VOL. 1 OTTO WOLFF, M.D. & FRIEDRICH HUSEMANN, M.D. ODAY ’S MEDICINE

is strongly influenced by natural science, which focuses entirely on thematerial nature of reality. This volume explores the body’s relationship to soul and spirit on the basis of Steiner’s insights into the activities of the spirit world. Included is an extensive discussion on developmental disorders and childhood diseases, followed by an in-depth exploration of the polarity of inflammation, sclerosis, and the pathology of nutrition and metabolic disorders. Otto Wolff is a medical doctor with more than thirty years of expeience. He has lectured internationally and taught doctors how to use his approach, based on Anthroposophy.

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A CHILD IS BORN

A Natural Guide to Pregnancy, Birth & Early Childhood WILHELM ZUR LINDEN

the growing embryo during pregnancy, the author guides the reader through the birth; the postnatal period and breastfeeding; care of newborn babies; meals for babies; and caring for children when they are sick. He includes useful sections on bottle-feeding, almond milk, and water quality. This new edition includes matters of contraception, drugs, a father’s presence during birthing, thumb sucking, sleep, crib death, overheating, and more.

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EXTENDING PRACTICAL MEDICINE Fundamental Principles Based on the Science of the Spirit RUDOLF STEINER & ITA WEGMAN

GOLD & STONE

THE

PHILOSOPHER’S

Treating Chronic Physical & Mental Illness with Mineral Remedies

Written 1925 (CW 27)

PETER GRÜNEWALD, M.D.

Foreword by Dr. Michael Evans

Grünewald examines B the spiritual aspects of

Swith Dr. Ita Wegman to write this classic introducTEINER COLLABORATED

tion to anthroposophic medicine, intended to revitalize the healing arts through spiritual knowledge. Without underrating or dismissing modern medicine, they extend allopathic medicine beyond its present materialistic outlook to a fuller view of the human condition. Today, this extended form of medical healing is used and valued throughout the world. ISBN: 1855840804 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 144 PAGES

COMPLETE HEALING Regaining Your Health through Anthroposophical Medicine MICHAEL EVANS, M.D. & IAIN RODGER

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MEDICINE adds spiritual science to conventional, allopathic medicine to provide therapies for the whole human being. These therapies offer the possibility of success when conventional treatment can only suppress symptoms. The broad range of therapies dramatically reduce the need for conventional drugs. Medicine based on the Steiner’s medical principles have been used worldwide for seventy-five years. Previously published as Anthroposophical Medicine Dr. Michael Evans helped establish Park Attwood Clinic in Worcestershire, UK. Iain Rodger is a BBC producer and freelance writer.

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ASED ON

new research,

using mineral remedies used to treat chronic physical, neurological, developmental, emotional, behavioral, and mental conditions and illnesses. Focusing on a system of nine minerals, he traces these substances through the human organism and develops an alchemical understanding of these substances, based on anthroposophic medical research. Gold and carbon are central to this study of the mineral system. The Philosopher’s Stone is achieved through the transformation of carbon and the creation of gold. The author shows how the important medicine Aurum (made from gold) relates to this process. Dr. Peter Grünewald is a general practitioner in Bristol and a medical adviser for people with special needs. He has studied and practiced anthroposophic medicine for more than sixteen years. ISBN: 1902636317 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $35.00 144 PAGES

DIET

AND

CANCER

UDO RENZENBRINK ENZENBRINK’S DIET

R guide for cancer patients and cancer pre-

vention is based on the anthroposophic view of the human being. He explains the various food groups and their relationship to the whole human being, showing how to fight and prevent cancer in the physical, etheric, and astral bodies and “I” being. His discussion of food preparation and metabolic rhythm, as well as the information on biodynamic produce, makes this an indispensable book for all who are serious about real nutrition. ISBN: 0854407669 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $11.95 72 PAGES 61

Nutrition, Health & Therapies

A GUIDE

TO

CHILD HEALTH

WOLFGANG GOEBEL & MICHAELA GLÖCKLER

guide to children’s physical, psychological, and spiritual development is now available in a brand new edition. Combining medical advice with issues of upbringing and education, this is a definitive guide for parents. This book outlines the connection between education and healing, with all that this implies for raising healthy children. Medical, educational, and religious issues often overlap, and in the search for the meaning of illness, it is necessary to study the whole child—as a being of body, soul, and spirit. The authors base their theory and practice on seventeen years of experience in the children’s outpatient department of the Herdecke Hospital in Germany, based on anthroposophical medical practice. The first section covers childhood illnesses and home nursing. Part two looks at the healthy development of children and how to create the ideal conditions for them. The authors examine issues of raising and educating children, and how these affect later life. This is an extremely practical book, with examples of conflict and crisis and possible solutions. This new edition also includes a list of medical and health practices in North America, Southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

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HIS ACCLAIMED

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ISCADOR

Mistletoe and Cancer Therapy CHRISTINE MURPHY, EDITOR ECENTLY, THE

plant-

R based cancer therapy Iscador has been gaining

increased media attention. Nevertheless, Iscador has been known for its therapeutic benefits for more than eighty years. As early as 1917, Steiner suggested treating cancer with injections of mistletoe extract. This was taken up and put to clinical use by Dr. Ita Wegman, who founded the Lukas clinic and developed Iscador.

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Christine Murphy gathers the work of doctors and clinicians who have been using Iscador. Dr. Richard Wagner answers questions his patients have asked about Iscador. Dr. Thomas Schuerholz, a cancer specialist, offers an overview of the terms, procedures, and various approaches to cancer. CHRISTINE MURPHY specializes in anthroposophically extended and homeopathic medicines and therapies. ISBN: 193005176X BOOK (PAPERBACK) LANTERN BOOKS $20.00 208 PAGES

BLESSED

BY ILLNESS

L. F. C. MEES R.

M EES, author of

D Secrets of the Skeleton, offers an alternative

approach to today’s “symptomatic medicine,” which merely attempts to remove the nuisance of disease symptoms quickly. Instead, illness may be seen as a problem solver in life, and the medical doctor can assist this function through a new approach to therapy. ISBN: 0880100540 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $24.95 250 PAGES

an exploration

evolutionary laws that govern their development. Husemann applies musical principles as a method of gaining insight into the structure of the human body and the forces that work on it, seeking to use our experience of music to explain the physiological and anatomical relationships in the body and the spiritual influences that determine physical development. ISBN: 0863153801 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00

An Introductory Reader RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Andrew Maendl, M.D.

Steiner’s main

ideas on extending H conventional medicine by ERE ARE

applying knowledge gained through spiritual science. Topics include true human nature as a basis for medical practice; the science of knowing; the mission of reverence; the four temperaments; the bridge between universal spirituality and the physical; the constellation of the supersensible bodies; the invisible human within us: the pathology underlying therapy; cancer and mistletoe, and aspects of psychiatry; case history questions: diagnosis and therapy; anthroposophic medicine in practice: and three case histories. ISBN: 1855841339 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $17.95 240 PAGES

A SLICE

OF

LIFE

A Personal Story of Healing through Cancer

author

was diagnosed with W breast cancer, she assessed HEN THE

ARMIN HUSEMANN, M.D. HIS IS

MEDICINE

LEE STURGEON-DAY

THE HARMONY OF THE HUMAN BODY Musical Principles in Human Physiology

Tof the cosmic origins of human beings and the

256 PAGES

her options—from surgery to complementary medicine—and chose anthroposophic medicine. Working with doctors and healers through a range of therapies and treatments, she found that she was called on to begin changing much of her personality. Three years later, she was shown to be completely clear. In this account, she writes vividly of her experience. LEE STURGEON-DAY has also been involved in teaching, counseling, writing food guides, managing a London coffee house, farming, and flame throwing in a circus. She lives in Arizona and works in adult education. ISBN: 0863153569 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $17.95 160 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Nutrition, Health & Therapies

FOODWISE

HOME REMEDIES

Understanding What We Eat & How It Affects Us

Herbal & Homeopathic Treatments for Use at Home

WENDY E. COOK

Otto Wolff HIS IS a book to turn to for practical advice on how to deal with health problems by using natural methods. In direct language, it describes herbal and homeopathic remedies and shows how they can be used in your home. Conventional drugs are plentiful — from painkillers to laxatives — and it is sometimes necessary to use these to relieve symptoms. Dr. Wolff, however, suggests treatment methods that resolve illnesses rather than suppressing the symptoms. These kinds of treatments activate the whole body and its inherent powers of healing. You will find sections on asthma, fever, skin conditions, migraine, arthritis, and diabetes. Also included are suggestions for stocking your medicine chest, along with a convenient index that helps you quickly research specific ailments. Home Remedies helps you take an active role in your own health and well being.

her per-

spectives on human Cevolution related to food, OOK OFFERS

the importance of agricultural methods, grasses and grains, human digestion, and vegetarianism. She analyses the building blocks of nutrition, looking at nutrition, including carbohydrates, minerals, fats and oils, dairy, herbs and spices, salt and sweeteners, stimulants, legumes, the nightshade, bread, water, and dietary supplements. She ends with tips on cooking, planning menus, children’s food, sharing meals, and some mouth-watering recipes. Wendy E. Cook is also the author of The Biodynamic Food & Cookbook. ISBN: 1902636392 BOOK (PAPERBACK) CLAIRVIEW BOOKS $34.00 352 PAGES

THE VACCINATION DILEMMA CHRISTINE MURPHY

five are

C likely to receive thirtyseven doses of eleven difHILDREN UNDER

ferent vaccines, yet few parents understand the risks that some vaccines present. A growing body of research links immunization with autism, seizures, asthma, arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and even hyperactivity and learning disabilities; yet we continue to use vaccination as “insurance,” even against diseases that no longer pose a significant threat. This book clearly describes the immune system, how it works, and the state of scientific knowledge on the subject. It offers suggestions and resources for parents whose children are sick, whether from a common childhood illness or from a vaccination. It makes a case for the alternate view of disease that it allows us to develop physically and spiritually and to fulfill our chosen destiny. ISBN: 1930051107 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LANTERN BOOKS $15.00 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 144 PAGES

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MEDICINE

FOR THE

WHOLE PERSON

A Guide to Anthroposophical Treatment DR. GEOFFREY DOUCH

overview

Tis a useful resource that describes the main theraHIS CONCISE

pies of anthroposophically extended medical therapy, including rhythmic massage, hydrotherapy, sculpture therapy, and therapeutic speech. It also includes a list of common conditions and suggested remedies. Dr. Geoffrey Douch is a general practitioner specializing in anthroposophic medicine. He has worked part-time at the Raphael Centre, an anthroposophical clinic, as well as maintaining a practice in Sussex. His special interests are cancer treatment and pediatrics. ISBN: 0863153623 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $11.95 64 PAGES

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MEDICINE, MYTHOLOGY & SPIRITUALITY Recollecting the Past and Willing the Future RALPH TWENTYMAN

discussion of

Ithe art of healing, the author places the problems N HIS

of modern medicine in the context of the evolution of consciousness and the modern crisis of selfhood and community. He relates this to today’s tragically common experience of loneliness in relation to the experience of individuality. In contrast, he points to the dawning vision of humankind as a “true being” itself — a living organism. The illnesses that characterize our time are looked at within the context of these birth pangs of a new era of evolution and consciousness. Ralph Twentyman trained at Cambridge and University College Hospital and later served in the RAF medical service in Habbaniya, Iraq. Later he trained in homeopathy at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and was appointed to the staff as consultant physician. There he introduced the mistletoe treatment of cancer as suggested by Rudolf Steiner and considered anthroposophic methods as a valid extension of Hahnemann’s homeopathic approach. Twentyman edited the British Homeopathic Journal for twenty-one years and has lectured extensively. ISBN: 1855841827 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $24.00 5½X8½ 128 PAGES

NUTRITION

RUDOLF HAUSCHKA R.

H AUSCHKA consid-

D ers one of the most neglected aspects of nutri-

tion—food quality. He relates his findings to a historical survey of food cultivation, preparation, and preservation, and to the question of the chemically treated foods. Also included are concise dietary suggestions by Dr. Margarethe Hauschka. ISBN: 1855841177 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $28.00 248 PAGES 63

Nutrition, Health & Therapies

THE SCIENCE

AND

ART

OF

HEALING

RALPH TWENTYMAN

the devel-

Popment of human consciousness toward “objecARALLEL TO

tivity,” Dr. Twentyman reveals a changing pattern of health and disease in society. The prevalence of diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and AIDS seems to be part of this history. By separating human beings from the world of nature, medicine has reached a dead end, since it fails to recognize wholeness. Twentyman’s warm understanding of wholeness leads to the recognition of healing, in its deepest sense, as a true art. ISBN: 0863151493 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $35.00 320 PAGES

AN OCCULT PHYSIOLOGY RUDOLF STEINER

upsurge of interest in complementary therapies and treatments, medical researchers are gradually being pressured to reassess and expand their knowledge of the structure and organization of the human body. Despite advances in modern technology, there are vast areas of human physiological activity that are related to spiritual forces and beings, and thus remain undetectable to conventional scientific observation. In these revealing lectures, Steiner concentrates on the relationship between those forces and the human physical organs. In particular, he discusses the organs that make up our digestive and respiratory systems; the significance of “warmth” in the function of the blood and its effects on the I, or Ego; and the evolutionary process implicit in the formation of the spinal column and brain. He deals with all of this in a scientific way that will appeal equally to doctors and therapists, as well as students of Steiner’s spiritual science. These talks—long out of print—are also remarkably accessible to the general reader.

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THE NATURE

OF

SUBSTANCE

RUDOLF HAUSCHKA

Interviews with Seven People with AIDS

view

of conventional science Tasserts that matter is solely HE REDUCTIONIST

physical. Dr. Hauschka shows the limitations of that view and points to new research that indicates the primal nature of spirit. This is the result of decades of experimentation that led to radical conclusions suggesting new directions for science. Topics include plants, animals, oils, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, metals, carbon, oxygen, poisons, high dilutions, and much more. Dr. Rudolf Hauschka was asked by Dr. Ita Wegmann to research and study the rhythms in nature at her institute in Arlesheim, Switzerland. After many attempts and a new understanding of the processes in the plant world, he produced a plant extract from rhythmized rose water, which could be kept stable for more than thirty years. Today WALA, a manufacturer of anthroposophical medicines and skin-care products, is based on Hauschka’s discoveries. ISBN: 1855841223 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $29.95 256 PAGES

SPIRIT HEALING BOB WOODWARD

work of

renowned healers such Tas Harry Edwards, “spiriHROUGH THE

WHY ME?

tual healing” is increasingly recognized as valid for a wide variety of physical ailments.Woodward has practiced spiritual healing and has extensive experience in the therapeutic and medical approach pioneered by Rudolf Steiner. In this clear, revealing account, Woodward examines various forms of healing, the role of healers, and the indications that Steiner provided for a deeper understanding of the spiritual world and our relationship with it through this form of healing. ISBN: 0863154441 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $27.00 144 PAGES

MARGJE KOSTER

living with

themSselvesAIDSandtalktheirabout lives. They EVEN PEOPLE

tell the dramatic stories of what happened to them and how they learned to cope with having to live face to face with death. ISBN: 0863151698 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $12.95 144 PAGES

WATER, ELECTRICITY & HEALTH Protecting Yourself from Electrostress at Home and Work ALAN HALL

pervasive. We are E surrounded by webs of LECTROSTRESS IS

electric wiring, power lines, transformers, all generating electromagnetic fields. Symptoms range from fatigue, tension, and poor resilience to insomnia, poor immunity, and serious illnesses. Physicist Alan Hall researched how water transmits electrostress. This is his fascinating journey of discovery into the nature of water as the bearer of life and a carrier of death. His discovery of biodynamic fields is applied to countering the harmful effects of electromagnetic fields. ISBN: 1869890949 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $26.00 192 PAGES

COOKERY BOOK FOR PATIENTS WITH CANCER OR PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS From the Lukas Clinic NTERESTING , ENJOYABLE , and healing vegetarian recipes from the Lukas Klinik in Arlesheim, Switzerland.

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Biographical Issues CRISIS POINTS Working through Personal Problems JULIAN SLEIGH

counselor, Julian

Sleigh has helped many A people through crises. He SA

has distilled his years of experience into a process of twelve steps that help to resolve difficult situations. The steps allow a person to face the facts of life and perceive the feelings and emotions that come from destiny. Julian Sleigh is a priest and counselor working in South Africa. He is also the author of Friends and Lovers and Thirteen to Nineteen, a book for parents with teenagers. ISBN: 0863152821 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $7.95 64 PAGES

FRIENDS

AND

LOVERS

Working through Relationships JULIAN SLEIGH

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IN SEARCH

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FROM STRESS

TO

SERENITY

Gaining Strength in the Trials of Life ANGUS JENKINSON

practical exerJcises,advice, and insights from ENKINSON OFFERS

RIENDSHIP, LOVE ,

marriage, and divorce — from rapture to rupture” — are all explored against the background of modern Western culture, where many men and women, social and sexual roles, are being defined amid much confusion. Friendship is a phenomenon, deserving our reverence and awe. It is a gift that each one of us can nurture; it does not just happen. It is precious.

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women left alone in old age, travellers and creative solitaries. Their stories reveal how each creates her own version of home, which may bear little resemblance to tradition but allows a path toward emotional and moral maturity. Noragh Jones leads workshops on women’s spirituality. She has for many years taught courses in the Department of Continuing Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, on women and religion, Celtic spirituality, and the social history of home. She is also the author of Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent: Celtic Women’s Spirituality (Lindisfarne Books).

OF

HOME

Women Working, Caring, Sharing NORAGH JONES

“home” mean for women of

today? We frequently hear the call to W revive and strengthen the nuclear family as the HAT DOES

foundation of society, but “traditional” values may not fit the realities of modern life, and, for many women today, “home” has negative associations . Noragh Jones tells of women living through serial relationships, single parents, lesbian couples, divorced and separated individuals,

many traditions and diverse sources. The result is an enlightening workbook and a thought-provoking analysis of the roots of stress and its meaning for our personal and spiritual development. Angus Jenkinson is a professor of integrated marketing and chairman of Stepping Stones Consultancy. RUDOLF STEINER PRESS 288 PAGES, PAPERBACK ISBN: 1855841576 $26

PHASES

The Spiritual Rhythms in Adult Life BERNARD LIEVEGOED

bestseller

each phase Tof lifedescribes — adolescence, the HIS CLASSIC

twenties, thirties, forties, and beyond — and looks at the inner qualities and challenges that arise with each stage. Lievegoed asserts that typical biological and psychological explanations of the human being are often incomplete. When the inner self, or “I,” of each person is recognized and acknowl-

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edged, the peculiarities of one’s particular life path and its challenges take on new meaning. ISBN: 1855840561 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $22.00 216 PAGES

SOULWAYS

Development, Crises, and Illnesses of the Soul RUDOLF TREICHLER

discusses

Tpersonal growth through the phases of HE AUTHOR

human life, giving a profound picture of both child and adult development. He explores the developmental disorders of soul life, including addiction, neurosis, psychosis, midlife issues, hysteria, anorexia, schizophrenia, depression, mania, and more. Disorders are explored from a developmental and therapeutic viewpoint, as questions that may challenge individual growth. Rudolf Treichler studied medicine, with a dissertation on Friedrich Hölderlin’s mental condition in relation to his poetry. A psychiatrist and neurologist, Dr. Treichler worked at the Friedrich Husemann Clinic as a consultant and gave courses. ISBN: 1869890132 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $35.00 320 PAGES

SPRINGBOARD

Women’s Development Workbook LIZ WILLIS & JENNY DAISLEY

is

packed with ideas, Texercises, and examples HIS WORKBOOK

that help the reader work alone or with others. It is practical and filled with positive thinking and good humor. Readers report exciting life changes including promotions, solving difficult relationships, regaining a healthy lifestyle, being more assertive, and generally feeling greater self-confidence and independence. ISBN: 1869890191 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $55.00 320 PAGES 65

Soul & Spirit B a ck i n P r i n t !

THE MEANING

OF

LOVE

VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV Introduction by Owen Barfield HAT IS the meaning of love’s intense emotion? Solovyov points to the spark of divinity that we see in another human being and shows how this “living ideal of Divine love, antecedent to our love, contains in itself the secret of the idealization of our love.” According to Solovyov, love between men and women has a key role to play in the mystical transfiguration of the world. Love, which allows one person to find unconditional completion in another, becomes an evolutionary strategy for overcoming cosmic disintegration. Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, was the founder of a tradition of Russian spirituality that brought together philosophy, mysticism, and theology with a powerful social message. A close friend of Dostoevsky, a Platonist, and a gnostic visionary, Solovyov was a prophet, having been granted three visions of Sophia, Divine Wisdom. He was also a poet and a profoundly Christian metaphysicist.

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LOVE

AND THE

WORLD

A Guide to Conscious Soul Practice ROBERT SARDELLO

“Spiritual psychology is an active practice. It develops embodied, conscious soul life to make that life open and receptive to the spiritual realms. This is done as an act of loving ourselves, others, and the world. . . . Psychology . . . is more than the study of the human soul. It is not possible to make such a study without the student undergoing inner changes in the process. Psychology, since it is we who study it, necessarily requires that the psyche be utilized to study the psyche. It therefore belongs inherently to the realm of practice. It is not a theory wandering around seeking application. We must do our psychology rather than theorize about the soul. And the doing of psychology is the doing of love — consciously, actively, and for the sake of others and the world. If you enter 66

into the interior of these words, your soul will awaken, and begin to move in this direction. It follows, too, that this is not only a book about psychology, it is also the very speech of psyche itself.” — Robert Sardello

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THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOUL WILLEM ZEYLMANS VAN EMMICHOVEN HE SELF-AWARE

human soul participates in

worlds: external and internal. It mediTatestwobetween these two worlds, and a dynamic

stream continually moves through the soul in polarities of love and hate, joy and sorrow, pleasure and displeasure, and so on. The author examines these and other psychological processes in the light of Anthroposophy. ISBN: 0880100192 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 170 PAGES

LIFTING THE VEIL MENTAL ILLNESS WILLIAM BENTO

views on

Rudolf Steiner’s work, B William Bento looks at

the human body, soul, and spirit and the effects of the physical and spiritual environment. He considers the effects of Sun, planets, and stars in relation to soul disturbances such as mania, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression. Ultimately, his views are grounded in the human center, the heart, and its relationship to the being of Christ, Logos. William R. Bento uses a synthesis of mainstream psychology, sociology, and spiritual science. He lectures and writes and is working toward a Ph.D. ISBN: 0880105305 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $20.00 128 PAGES

Understanding Children Who Set Us Special Tasks and Challenges GEORG KÜHLEWIND

years, much

has been written about I“gifted” children with N RECENT

special abilities, sometimes called “indigo” or “crystal” children. It is said that they are coming to Earth to help humanity evolve. Based on his research, Kühlewind confirms that this is one of the most important events of our age. In this bestseller, he takes us consciously and scientifically into the realm from which we all enter the world as babies “trailing clouds of glory.” We all possess the tools he describes for taking this path: our thoughts, our heart forces, and our willpower. By using these faculties with full attention — by focusing our attentiveness and eliminating everything else — we can enter the realm of the spirit where the prevailing laws are different from those on Earth. The author helps us by closing each chapter with themes for contemplation and meditation. ISBN: 190263649X BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $25.00 160 PAGES

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An Approach to Anthroposophical Psychology ASING HIS

STAR CHILDREN

MAN

ON THE

THRESHOLD

The Challenge of Inner Development

Bernard Lievegoed NSTEAD OF voyages of discovery to unknown continents, exploration today is taking place on inner frontiers. It may be overpowering, as in the case of psychological disturbances and mental illness, or it may be enlightening and positive. This is an indispensable roadmap for the inner journey, offering guidelines for therapists and everyone on the inner path. Lievegoed describes ancient and alternative paths; the human double; and physiological and psychological factors in our relationship to Earth, Sun, Moon, and planets, along with their medical and social implications.

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Soul & Spirit

A PSYCHOLOGY OF BODY, SOUL & SPIRIT

UNDERSTAND YOUR TEMPERAMENT!

THE SPEECH

A Guide to the Four Temperaments

Anthroposophy, Psychosophy, Pneumatosophy

GILBERT CHILDS

A Journey toward Speaking that Heals and Transforms

RUDOLF STEINER 12 lectures, 1909–1911 (CW 115) Introduction by Robert Sardello

are really three lecture courses, each observing the human being from a different perspective. The first four offer a precise understanding of the human soul in relation to the senses and the subtle processes that form the human body. The next four focus on what we can know of the human soul based only on direct observation. The concluding lectures portray the relationship of soul to spirit, showing how to awaken individual spirit life and how to distinguish between illusory and genuine spiritual experience. Previous edition: Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit.

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OUR TWELVE SENSES

R.

CHILDS offers a

refreshing treatment of D the ancient doctrine of the

four temperaments — the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholic types. He shows how to recognize the temperaments in ourselves and in others, and how we can understand their function in human behavior. He investigates in depth the origins and manifestations of the temperaments in both their psychological and physiological aspects. Included are fascinating discussions of the relationships between adults of various temperaments and matters of compatibility in partnership, family, and workplace situations. The author also includes a section dealing with the temperaments of children, with helpful advice on how to help them in relation to attributes and behavior. ISBN: 1855840251 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 145 PAGES

Wellsprings of the Soul

CHILDREN & THEIR TEMPERAMENTS

ALBERT SOESMAN

MARIEKE ANSCÜUTZ

nourish life,

but overstimulation can O harm healthy sensory expeUR SENSES

riences. Soesman explores the twelve senses: touch, life, self-movement, balance, smell, taste, vision, temperature, hearing, language, concept, and the I. He discusses their development, expression, and functions in relation to physical, soul, and social groups and shows the polarities of “inner” and “outer” senses. He also relates each of the senses to a sign of the zodiac. The author’s imaginative approach to the senses makes this an accessible study guide for teachers, doctors, therapists, counselors, psychologists, and scientists — indeed, anyone who wants a better understanding of human perception. ISBN: 1869890752 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $22.00 162 PAGES

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OUR FUNDAMENTAL

types, or temperaments, belong to the human personality, each of which has a different personal need and means of relating socially. Through working with children, the author offers a guide to children’s temperaments and their role in the development of character, health, and personality. She includes illustrations from home and Waldorf classrooms. She also discusses how these ideas may be used to manage, and relate to, groups and individuals. ISBN: 0863151752 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $13.95 128 PAGES

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GRAIL

LINDA SUSSMAN

SUSSMAN, a

storyteller and cerLemonialist, explores ways INDA

of speaking in a way that heals and transforms both ourselves and those around us. Using Parzifal, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic story of the Grail, she describes a path to healing speech—to truth in word and action. She retells the story and allows readers to inwardly reproduce the imagery of the text. She shows that it is a path to recovering the right relationship to our imperfections—a path on which male and female aspects work together to overcome evil. LINDA SUSSMAN, after training as a psychotherapist, completed a doctorate in Spiritual Psychology and Oral Tradition at the Union Institute. She teaches storytelling and mythology. ISBN: 094026269X BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $18.95 296 PAGES

BEYOND

THE

FOREST

The Story of Parsifal and the Grail

Kelvin Hall RE WE not all Parsifal if we look deeply enough? The Grail story represents the archetypal search for wholeness, leading through courage and surrender, from forgetting to love and redemption. Along the way, we are hindered by fear, confusion, and loss. Eventually, we begin to trust our own hearts as we accept the wisdom of others. Beyond the Forest brings new life to this beloved fable. Storyteller Kelvin Hall’s retelling of this Grail story shows us that by engaging the suffering of others, we acknowledge and heal our own. This brings forth the possibility for transformation and renewal.

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Economic Renewal & Social Issues AMERICA’S GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY JESAIAH (YESHAYAHU) BEN-AHARON

reminds us of the founding

of the United States and the obligaTtionsvision inherent in the ideals set forth in the HE AUTHOR

Declaration of Independence. In a summary of today’s global, social, and economic conditions, Ben-Aharon describes the dire consequences of ignoring those obligations and explains how a threefold concept of society, first described by Rudolf Steiner, can end the destructive effects of globalization and introduce progressive social structures. This begins with the full actualization of the individual, a process that America is karmically destined to foster. The author shows how an understanding of America’s role in the development of global civil society can help achieve cultural and spiritual freedom, political equality and economic cooperation in the world. YESAIAH (YESHAYAHU) BEN-AHARON was born in Israel in 1955. He cofounded Harduf, an anthroposophical kibbutz in Israel. He writes on artistic, scientific, and contemporary issues in Israeli newspapers, and is the author of several books. ISBN: 1584200189 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $15.00 144 PAGES

CONFRONTING CONFLICT A First-Aid Kit for Handling Conflict FRIEDRICH GLASL

examples, exercises, theory, and techniques to analyze all kinds of conflict; to understand how temperaments affect conflicts; to reduce conflict by changing behavior, attitudes, and perceptions; and to practice considerate means of confrontation. The author presents the tools to analyze the symptoms, types, and causes of many types of conflict; understand how temperaments affect conflicts and what you can do; acknowledge when conflict occurs, understand how it escalates, and learn how to reduce conflict by changing behavior, attitudes, and perceptions; practice developing considerate means of con-

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frontation by seizing “golden moments” and strengthening empathy; and much more. DR. FRIEDRICH GLASL is a recognized authority on methods of conflict resolution. ISBN: 186989071X BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $27.00 192 PAGES

THE ENTERPRISE

OF THE

FUTURE

FRIEDRICH GLASL

moral intuition in leader-

ship and organizational development, and G describes how companies grow through the

pioneer, differentiated, integrated, and associative phases of development. A map of tomorrow’s company helps leaders develop a practical awareness of how to work with a variety of stakeholders in the value-creating stream. This leads to an associative economy formed from “shared destiny” relationships with customers, suppliers, staff, shareholders, the community, and the Earth. ISBN: 1869890795 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $23.00 118 PAGES

THE ESOTERIC ASPECT THE SOCIAL QUESTION

OF

The Individual and Society RUDOLF STEINER 4 lectures, Feb. 4–Mar 9, 1919 (CW 193)

increase

Tin destructive, antisocial behavior has focused HE GENERAL

greater attention on social issues, while effective solutions remain elusive. Steiner presents his inner, esoteric perspective on social concerns and original ways of organizing society and dealing with social issues. Includes a previously unpublished lecture. Previous translation: The Inner Aspect of the Social Question. ISBN: 1855840642 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $17.95 112 PAGES

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SOCIAL ART

Creating a Home for Body, Soul & Spirit VERONIKA VAN DUIN

economic

today affect Sthepressures traditional role of OCIAL AND

How Companies Develop LASL EXPLORES

HOMEMAKING AS

homemaking. Emphasis has been placed on the working world, and many struggle to fulfill several roles. Taking a spiritual perspective inspired by Rudolf Steiner, the author suggests that homemaking needs to be undertaken consciously as an honored and valued area of work — as nothing less than a “social art.” The author does not claim a blueprint for perfect homemaking, but offers principles and observations and addresses the significance of rhythm, relationships, artistic environment, caring, and inner development. VERONIKA VAN DUIN lives with young children with special needs and leads seminars and workshops for homemakers. ISBN: 1855840685 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $24.00 224 PAGES

THE CHALLENGE

OF THE

TIMES

RUDOLF STEINER 6 lectures, Dornach, Nov.–Dec. 1918 (CW 186)

lectures, given

after the endIingjustof days World War I, Steiner N THESE

describes developments in mechanics, politics, and the economy, as well as new capacities and methods in both the East and the West. He reveals their fruitful potential, but also the dangers of their abuse. He also discusses social and antisocial instincts, specters of the Old Testament in modern nationalism, and the innate capacities of various nations. ISBN: 0910142831 BOOK (PAPERBACK) GARBER BOOKS $5.95 4 ¼” X 7” 224 PAGES

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SPEAKING, LISTENING, UNDERSTANDING The Art of Creating Conscious Conversation HEINZ ZIMMERMANN

“This book results from many year’s experience in a ‘selfadministered’ Waldorf school. During those years, I watched the decision-making process unfold through innumerable conversations and committee meetings. It is my hope that this short text can serve as an aid for those seeking to increase their conversational ability. Only suchincreased competence will enable us to raise the human interaction taking place in any conversation to a higher level.” —Heinz Zimmermann

Such group activity depends upon the ability of human beings to work together consciously in language. Speaking, Listening, Understanding is about group conversations, especially those intended to arrive at decisions and/or insights. Various types of conversations are described. In the process, we learn how individual participants, context, and mood can affect the overall process, Exercises, both group and individual, are provided for different kinds of conversations. Rather than the dynamics of group psychology, however, the author starts from the artistic aspects of conversation: namely, language and consciousness. Using examples and anectdotes drawn from many years of work with groups, Zimmermann shows in a straightforward way what can go wrong and why. Then, through a step-by-step articulation of the processes involved in conversation — speaking, listening, and understanding — he shows what kinds of awareness an practices can strengthen the group processes that facilitate creative conversation. This is a valuable resource for any group or cummunity, and it is directed especially toward Waldorf school communities. Heinz Zimmermann has worked — mostly in artistic ways — with language in Waldorf education and in lectures and workshops. He makes us more conscious of the various ways we use and understand language. ISBN: 0940262754 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $16.95 128 PAGES

AND

FEMALE

SOCIAL

AND

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Developing Human Empathy

An Introductory Reader

BARUCH LUKE URIELI

RUDOLF STEINER

mythology and the JudaeoChristian tradition in terms of the the sexes and gender issues in contemporary Western culture. He develops the theme of “empathy” as a guide for male-female relationships, based on mutual recognition, acceptance, and dependence. Through empathy it becomes possible for individuals and couples to perceive their true destiny and bring new order into this area of human and world evolution.

Edited by Stephen Usher

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activity, whatever the size of

A the community — whether in business, the family, schools, or politics — is group activity. LL HUMAN

MALE

THE RENEWAL OF THE SOCIAL ORGANISM RUDOLF STEINER 26 essays, written 1919–1920 (CW 24) ULTURE , POLITICS ,

and economics are the three core activities of society, whose health depends on their harmonious interaction. According to Steiner, this requires a threefold social order, in which each can become autonomous enough to manifest its essential nature. These essays cover a range of issues with special attention to money, the division of labor, human motivation, and education.

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MYSTERY STREAMS

IN

EUROPE

and the New Mysteries BERNARD LIEVEGOED

is intended for people wish-

ing to deepen their relationship to the TAnthroposophical Society and the School of HIS BOOK

Spiritual Science founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1923. It shows how the four great mystery streams have worked in the past and how Steiner attempted to join these four together to create the new mysteries at the Christmas Foundation Meeting.

in the

“Pocket Library of TSpiritual Wisdom Series” HIS VOLUME

collects Rudolf Steiner’s ideas for social and political renewal. Topics include: psychological cognition; the social question; the social question and theosophy; Memoranda of 1917; the metamorphosis of intelligence; culture, law, and economy; and Central Europe between East and West. ISBN: 1855841037 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 224 PAGES

HUMAN ENCOUNTERS

AND

KARMA

ATHYS FLORIDE

book

develops a path of Tcommunity and shows HIS MARVELOUS

how we can begin to make our everyday lives more sacred by becoming more aware of the past and future karma in our relationships. Beginning with the moment before the encounter, the author shows how we can enter a process which parallels that of the Mass: annunciation, sacrifice, transubstantiation, and communion. Drawing on Steiner’s many ideas on karma, Floride shows us this social ritual as a profoundly spiritual path, one perhaps closer to us than any other. The second half of the book deals with this process by encountering a poet through his work. Taking Victor Hugo as his example, Floride shows how profound such a meeting can be. ISBN: 0880102918 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 128 PAGES

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SOCIAL ISSUES

VISION

Meditative Thinking & the Threefold Social Order

Working with Soul & Spirit in Small Organizations

RUDOLF STEINER

CHRISTOPHER SCHAEFER & TŸNO VOORS

Introduction by Gary Lamb 5 lectures, January 5, 1920–March 18, 1920 (CW 334)

been active for years in Scommunity and organization

STEINER shows

that today’s politiR cal, economic, and social UDOLF

problems are symptoms of our faulty thinking. His convincing analysis of economic crises, unemployment, and political uprisings unmasks such problems as signs of our desperate need for new thinking. In a very accessible way, Steiner describes how spiritual science and the kind of thinking it fosters can lead to a renewal of society and to true freedom for individuals. In view of the current condition of our economy and the seeming chaos of international politics, Steiner’s insights come as a fresh breeze that awakens us to responsibility and renewed hope. In passionate, lucid language, Steiner presents his vision of the threefold social order, a system based on free will and spiritual insight. ISBN: 0880103582 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $12.95 152 PAGES ISBN: 0880103590 (HARDCOVER) $24.95

TRANSFORMING PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS

The Seven Steps of Spiritual Development MARGARETE VAN DEN BRINK VERYONE , THE

author

tells us, experiences E the archetypal process of

development. She shows that the process of growth through the seven phases is essentially a process of spiritual development. Van den Brink’s approach offers a refreshing, new, and dynamic way forward in contrast to the rationalistic methods of most mainstream consultants and personal development. ISBN: 1902636503 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $24.00 224 PAGES

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IN

ACTION

CHAEFER AND

A VISION

Voors have

development. They created this guide for those interested in grassroots development of social, service, or educational organizations. The three parts — historical and organizational perspectives; the how-to of developing and building small organizations; and opportunities for the future—form a complete guide to carrying out small-scale projects from inception to organization and long-term growth. Christopher Schaefer, ph.d. is on the faculty of Sunbridge College and director of their Waldorf School Administration and Community Development Program. He is also codirector of the Center for Organization and Community Development. TŸNO VOORS is lecturer at the Centre for Social Development at Emerson College. ISBN: 0940262746 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $16.95 272 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Andrew Welburn

tends to symbolize A a time to stop, reassess, NEW MILLENNIUM

and question the direction of individuals and society—a time to reexamine philosophies and values. This collection of excerpts from Steiner’s books and lectures provides an excellent introduction to his millennial vision. It includes commentary on the significance of the coming transformation of all areas of life, the importance of “spiritual ecology,” the transfiguration of Earth, and the roles of spirit beings today. ANDREW WELBURN, PH.D. has been a Fellow of the Warburg Institute, the University of London, and New College, Oxford, where he currently teaches. He has written and edited several books. RUDOLF STEINER PRESS 144 PAGES, PAPERBACK ISBN: 185584043X $19.95

John Macmurray on Self and Society PHILIP CONFORD

Rethinking the Basis of Society RUDOLF STEINER Written 1919 (CW 23)

first published in 1919, remains

Thighly relevant to social problems today. Steiner’s social thinking is not based on theory, but on his deep perception of the archetypal spirit of society. He suggests that society has three distinct realms—its economy, its political structure, and its culture. Whereas society is a unity, the autonomy of these three areas must be respected before social problems can be resolved. The economy calls for fraternity, the political system requires equality, and true culture must be characterized by liberty. These ideals of the French Revolution, he suggests, will manifest only when our social thinking is in keeping with the spiritual reality. ISBN: 1855840723 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 144 PAGES

MILLENNIUM

THE PERSONAL WORLD

TOWARDS SOCIAL RENEWAL

HIS BOOK ,

FOR THE

Modern Spirituality and Cultural Renewal

M ACMURRAY ’S philosophy has had an

important influence on political thought, Jethics, and education, as well as theology and OHN

psychology. His aims were radical, ambitious, and challenging — to take a new look at the tradition of Western philosophy and question both its origin and its inheritance. He warned against the political, social, and religious dangers of outdated thinking and metaphors. According to Macmurray, Western thought has remained trapped in conventions that no longer hold any real meaning. He argues that we must begin with the living reality of being a human being in the world, maintaining that the self exists through action and mutuality, and not in isolation as a mere observer. This selection from his writings, with an introduction and commentary, reveals the work of this great thinker in all its clarity, depth, and inspirational quality. ISBN: 0863152368 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $35.00 224 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Biography

Biography THE BUILDERS

OF

CAMPHILL

scientific research. His analysis delves into the occult significance of the individual incarnated as Kaspar Hauser. ISBN: 0904693899 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $30.00 336 PAGES

Lives and Destinies of the Founders FRIEDWART BOCK

1939, a small group of

young Austrian refugees, Itogether with Dr. Karl N

König, formed a community to help children with special needs. From this small beginning the Camphill Movement developed. This is the story of Camphill’s eleven intrepid founders, documenting how those pioneers and others came together to form a network that today includes more than a hundred homes, schools, and villages. More than 100 photographs. ISBN: 0863154425 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $32.00 288 PAGES

EVELYN FRANCIS CAPEL A Celebration of a Pioneering Spirit VARIOUS AUTHORS

a collection of moving tributes to

Tthe inspirational work of Evelyn Capel, the first British woman to become a priest in HIS IS

the Christian Community, a movement for Christian renewal. She was loved for her many books, lively lectures, workshops, and dedicated work as a counselor. Includes recollections from students and a section on the sacraments. ISBN: 0904693937 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $19.95 176 PAGES

WILLEM ZEYLMANS VAN EMMICHOVEN

MARIE STEINER

An Inspiration for Anthroposophy, a Biography

Her Place in World Karma

EMANUEL ZEYLMANS

MSteiner’s wife and close colleague, contributed

EMMICHOVEN was a major pioneer of Anthroposophy. His son tells the story of his remarkable life, examining the spiritual conflicts he faced, his life during World War II, and his innovative work in various fields. The author brings to life an exciting and difficult time in the development of new spiritual ideas. Illustrated. EMANUEL ZEYLMANS, a priest in the Christian Community, helped found the Dutch journal Jonas. His writings include a biography of Ita Wegman.

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KASPAR HAUSER

The Struggle for the Spirit PETER TRADOWSKY

work, Tradowsky addresses the mysteries surrounding Kaspar Hauser’s life, using spiritual

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HANS PETER VAN MANEN ARIE

STEINER, Rudolf

to the development of Anthroposophy, particularly in her work to renew the performing arts. Van Manen presents Marie Steiner’s karmic past and links her to a well-known individual connected with Aristotle. ISBN: 0904693767 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $12.95 48 PAGES

ETERNAL INDIVIDUALITY Towards a Karmic Biography of Novalis

SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN And the New Spiritual Awakening FRANCES FARRER

a modern pioneer of alter-

values, exploring beliefs in angels, Tthenative calming effects of crystals and the power REVELYAN WAS

of ley lines, along with organic farming and communal living. He established a trust to promote spiritual education and, in 1982, was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for his contribution to healing the planet. He encouraged a synthesis between science and spirituality and taught extensively, inspiring communities, universities, and spiritual groups around the world. He died at the age of ninety in 1996. ISBN: 0863153771 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $29.95 208 PAGES

VALENTIN TOMBERG & ANTHROPOSOPHY A Problematic Relationship SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

years,

Valentin Tomberg Fstrongly advocated Rudolf OR MANY

Steiner’s Anthroposophy. Prokofieff offers startling new research and presents a hypothesis that Tomberg’s followers are misguided. His key evidence is a letter (reproduced in the book) written by Tomberg in 1970. The author tries to show the extent of Tomberg’s condemnation and dismissal of Steiner and spiritual science. ISBN: 1902636643 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $18.00 64 PAGES

THE CASE

OF

VALENTIN TOMBERG

Anthroposophy or Jesuitism?

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

develops and expands on Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research, leading to a more comprehensive understanding of Novalis and his crucial future mission for humanity.

Prokofieff offers his views on a controW versial debate.

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HAT IS

the mystery behind Tomberg’s life?

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Spiritual Fiction THE DAWNWATCHERS

LEGEND

THE PARCHMENT

A Novel of the Twenty-First Century

A Novel

A Novel

HIRAM A. BINGHAM

BARRY MAHER

GERALD T. MCLAUGHLIN

2004 at the dawn of the new millennium, this dramatic alternative fiction portrays the conflict between a behavioristic, one-world dictatorship and a redemptive and spiritually transforming society of individuals, the Dawnwatchers. A romantic adventure, spanning three continents, The Dawnwatchers enacts an alternate history that portrays the central questions of our age: the meaning of freedom, the nature of evil, the evolution of humanity and the nature of the Second Coming. After a devastating twentieth century, and following the collapse of the existing social order, the familiar ideas of secular humanism and behavioral engineering are challenged by the events now unfolding. New faculties, but at the same time new dangers, are born for humanity. In an age of rapid social change, the characters of The Dawnwatchers are confronted by a variety of systems of knowledge which attempt to explain and give direction to their lives. At the heart of the novel is Bingham’s concern for the human spirit amidst an age in the throes of destruction and suppression. HIRAM BINGHAM, originally from Connecticut, is the son of an American diplomat and a graduate of Yale and Columbia with degrees in literature and law. He was strongly influenced by Anthroposophy, and his evolving awareness of Steiner’s philosophy helped form the basis for The Dawnwatchers.

classic tells the story of a future city in the process of devouring itself. A young man and woman manage to escape their rough lives on the streets only to be trapped between a parasitic government and an insane, satanic underworld. To triumph, the young woman must understand what cannot be understood; the young man must become a god. This post-apocalyptic novel convincingly portrays self-discovery amid life’s hindrances and limitations, out of time and out of place. BARRY MAHER is a management, motivational, and sales keynote speaker. He is the author of numerous books.

Iis hidden that will threaten the very founda-

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GIVING JUDAS

A

CHANCE

The Vision and Venture of Weaving Many Lives PIETRO ARCHIATI

of reincarnation and karma

A that encourages a new perspective. FRESH VIEW

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T

HIS CULT

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NICAEA

A Book of Correspondences MARTIN ROWE

Anatolian town of Nicaea

was the site of two Ttransformative events in HE ANCIENT

Christian history — the council of 325, which formalized the central doctrines of Christian faith, and the council of 787, which sanctioned icons, leading to an abundance of Christian art. Using letters, meditations, Arabic folktales, a Sufi zhikr, prayers and Turkish shadow puppet theater, Nicaea explores faith and political power, individual conscience and collective responsibility, art and truth, and the sacred and profane. MARTIN ROWE is the editor in chief of Lantern Books and editor of The Way of Compassion (1999) and the founding editor of Satya: A Magazine of Vegetarianism, Environmentalism, Animal Advocacy, and Social Justice. He lives in New York City. ISBN: 1584200200 BOOK (HARDCOVER) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $19.95 288 PAGES

N A . D.

70, a document

tions of the Church. In time, it unleashes schemes and intrigues that involve the Vatican, the Templars, kings, and eventually two twentieth-century professors, all wishing to use it for their own purpose. This is a dazzling story of two millennia and the continuing battle between good and evil. Ultimately, the author shines a light of profound hope and faith into the darkest recesses of the human soul and world events. Gerald T. McLaughlin graduated from law school and became an associate in a prestigious law firm. He is dean emeritus and professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and has written and lectured extensively. ISBN: 1584200308 BOOK (HARDCOVER) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $24.95 304 PAGES

ZANONI

A Rosicrucian Tale SIR EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

between head and heart

Tthat must be resolved through spiritual initiation is played out during the French HE CONFLICT

Revolution in this classic Rosicrucian account. The seven parts of this novel indicate the sevenfold path of spiritual development behind the story itself. ISBN: 0833400177 BOOK (PAPERBACK) GARBER BOOKS $18.95 416 PAGES

BLACK EARTH

Towards a New Mystery Drama CHRISTOPHER MARCUS

Steiner’s mystery dramas, Mar-

cus and his performers wrote this bold, Ipowerful drama of soul and spirit, based on NSPIRED BY

technology, art, destiny, and metamorphosis. ISBN: 1902636244 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $19.95 120 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Verses & Meditations IMAGINATION’S MUSIC LIVING

WITH THE

DEAD

Meditations for Maintaining a Connection to Those Who Have Died RUDOLF STEINER Selected verses (CWs 40, 261, 267, 268)

BREATHING

THE

H

SPIRIT

Meditations for Times of Day & Seasons of the Year RUDOLF STEINER Selected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)

to the cycle of waking and

and the greater rhythms of birth Vandsleeping, death, gently reminding us of our origin ERSES RELATE

consolation for the bereaved through words of wisdom on death and its deeper, spiritual meaning. Steiner stresses the continuing links between the living and the dead and shows how our thoughts can help those who have departed earthly life. Included are poems that express what those who have died experience in their new existence. ISBN: 1855841274 BOOK (HARDCOVER) SOPHIA BOOKS $19.95 64 PAGES

and goal. Steiner also focuses on the changing seasons, earth’s cycle of sleeping and waking. ISBN: 1855841428 BOOK (HARDCOVER) SOPHIA BOOKS $22.00 128 PAGES

FINDING

THE

THE HEART

RUDOLF STEINER Selected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)

promote harmony and healing and help renew a sense of place in the cosmos. They show how to discover the self by looking to the the cosmos and how to know the world by looking into ourselves. EDITATIONS THAT

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ADAM BITTLESTON

help us to experience the rhythms of waking and sleeping, the days of the week, the seasons of the year. Daily use of these prayers makes us conscious of how we stand continually in world rhythms.

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HESE PRAYERS

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PEACE

Rudolf Steiner

GREATER SELF

MEDITATIVE PRAYERS

OF

Meditations for Courage and Tranquillity

Meditations for Harmony and Healing

M

OPE AND

TODAY

Selected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)

aim to strengthen the heart by warming and enlivening thinking, allowing for genuine peace of mind; by drawing feeling into the dark depths of our will in order to help develop courage; by nurturing a real sense of peace within the heart and by helping us to help others.

T

HESE VERSES

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PRAYERS FOR PARENTS & CHILDREN RUDOLF STEINER

for every

occasion of parenting. IIncludes prayers for mornNCLUDES VERSES

ing and evening and graces for mealtimes. A lecture by Steiner provides context and insight into our greater cosmic relationships before birth, during life, and after death. ISBN: 1855840367 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $14.95 80 PAGES

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From Youth to Old Age CHRISTY MACKAYE BARNES

begins with

of Christy’s Tearlya selection poems followed by HIS BOOK

more recent, previously unpublished poems. Christy MacKaye Barnes, during a visit with Marie Steiner, received a diploma for the art of speech. Later, she played a part in Rudolf Steiner’s Portal of Initiation, directed by Hans Pusch. She went on to become a Waldorf teacher and the editor of Journal for Anthroposophy. She and her husband Henry Barnes moved to Hillsdale, New York, where they helped establish the community in Harlemville. She died in 2002. ISBN: 0932776302 BOOK (PAPERBACK) ADONIS PRESS $13.95 128 PAGES

HYMNS TO THE NIGHT/ SPIRITUAL SONGS NOVALIS Foreword by Sergei O. Prokofieff

describes Novalis’ spiriH tual initiation at the grave YMNS TO

the Night

of his beloved Sophie. Spiritual Songs expresses his profound new relationship to the world and humanity and to Christianity. ISBN: 0904693414 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $13.95 64 PAGES

SHARDS

FROM THE

HEART

A Spiritual Odyssey in 20th-Century America BERNARD GARBER

the great mysteries of

human life and shows how the purpose G of life culminates in freedom of action. This ARBER EXPLORES

book grew out of study sessions over several years in New York City. ISBN: 0833410156 BOOK (PAPERBACK) GARBER BOOKS $6.95 160 PAGES

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PRAYERS

AND

GRACES

MICHAEL JONES, EDITOR

includes

prayers for expectant Tmothers, for children before HIS COLLECTION

and after birth, for the soul of a suicide, and for souls between the time of death and the funeral. ISBN: 0863152449 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $14.95 96 PAGES

THE UP-RISING

IN

DYING

CHRISTY MACKAYE BARNES

has proven help-

Tful to countless people faced by death. This collecHIS BOOK

tion of prose, poetry, meditation, and prayer addresses the experience of death from many points of view, but always from a profound, spiritual perspective. ISBN: 0932776167 BOOK (PAPERBACK) ADONIS PRESS $11.95 96 PAGES

VERSES & MEDITATIONS RUDOLF STEINER

than ninety of Steiner’s bestloved verses and meditations, this volume collects a range of material on various themes, such as working with spiritual beings, connecting with loved ones who have passed over, developing selfhood, and celebrating festivals and seasons. Countless people have worked with these meditations over the decades and can testify to their power, as well as to the strength and comfort they offer for meditation and contemplation.

F

EATURING MORE

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Arts & Literature

A WAY

BLACKBOARD DRAWINGS

JOHN ALLISON

1919–1924 RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Walter Kugler

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TEINER GAVE

more than 5,000 lectures to explain his ideas, and he frequently illustrated his words with colored chalk on a large blackboard. After the autumn of 1919, thick black paper was used to cover the blackboards, and after the lectures the drawings were rolled up and protected. This selection from more than a thousand such drawings provides a much deeper appreciation of Steiner’s work. Contains 120 color plates. ISBN: 1855841525 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $50.00 10 ½ X 10 INCHES 200 PAGES

THE INNER NATURE

OF

COLOR

From the Philosophy of the Four Elements to Modern Science J. LEONARD BENSON

the

spiritual and esoteric B nature of color in terms ENSON DESCRIBES

OF

SEEING

Perception, Imagination, and Poetry OET JOHN

Allison

Pshows how ordinary imagination can be inten-

sified to become a means of cognition and a path to knowing and how poetry — poetic knowing and seeing — can reveal aspects of the world invisible to science. He describes a path to true imagination and attention. By learning “poise,” we come to terms with the shadow — all that says “no” in us. The combination of attention, equanimity, and assent opens the world in a new way. To exemplify his philosophy and practice, Allison draws on the works of Shakespeare, Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Goethe, Novalis, Rilke, Paz, as well as his own poems. JOHN ALLISON, a former Waldorf teacher, is a management consultant and lecturer. He is a musician and a poet, with three collections and poems in journals worldwide. He lives in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne with his wife Bettye. ISBN: 158420012X BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $16.95 160 PAGES

THE LADY &

of the four elements: fire, earth, air and water. Based Rudolf Steiner’s insights and a deep knowledge of classical cosmology and color theory, he shows that an inner understanding of color leads to a fresh view of the world and evolution, one completely at odds with the neo-Darwinian paradigm. The Inner Nature of Color will interest artists, art historians, and anyone who has ever wondered what the remarkable beauty of our colored world means. J. LEONARD BENSON taught art history at Wellesley College and classics at the University of Mississippi. He is Emeritus Professor of Archeology and Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of several books. ISBN: 0880105143 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $25.00 [ LIMITED QUANTITY ] 224 PAGES

THE

UNICORN

GOTTFRIED BUTTNER Foreword by Baruch Urieli

of art

is rooted in culture E and history, and its VERY WORK

interpretation can provide valuable insights into human nature. In response to a continuing interest in “unicorn culture,” Gottfried Buttner discusses the rich symbolism and significance of unicorns as expressed in the beautiful, enigmatic tapestries of the Cluny Museum in Paris, telling us how the unicorn is related to the human soul’s development. Includes sixteen color plates. ISBN: 1869890523 BOOK (HARDCOVER) HAWTHORN PRESS $40.00 8 ½ X 11 INCHES 112 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Arts & Literature

WHAT IS ART?

OPENING OUR MORAL EYE

Conversations with Joseph Beuys

Essays, Talks, and Poems Embracing Creativity & Community

JOSEPH BEUYS & VOLKER HARLAN

BEUYS’S work continues to influence and inspire artists and thinkers around the world—in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy, and new forms of money, to new methods of art education and the practice of “ecological art.” Volker Harlan — whose own work explores substance and sacrament — spoke with Beuys about the deeper motivations behind “social sculpture” and about his views on art. These profound reflections and thoughtful essays give a sense of the interconnected nature of all life forms and provide the basis for a path toward a future that is ecologically sustainable. Features more than forty illustrations. VOLKER HARLAN was born in 1938 in Dresden. He studied arts, biology, and theology and was a priest of the Christian Community until 2001. He is a cofounder of the private University of Witten-Herdecke and a lecturer on the philosophy of nature and aesthetics.

J

OSEPH

ISBN: 1902636597 ILLUSTRATED BOOK (PAPERBACK) CLAIRVIEW BOOKS $30.00 7½X9¾ 128 PAGES

THE SECRET HERESY HIERONYMUS BOSCH

OF

Lynda Harris

and fantastic

Tpaintings of the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch HE BIZARRE

have puzzled and intrigued people for centuries. The author offers surprising new insights into Bosch’s detailed and cryptic visual fantasies. His paintings, done for Catholic patrons, contain symbols of his beliefs within the imagery, which Harris deciphers as Bosch’s heretical religious beliefs from the Cathar faith. ISBN: 0863151981 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $75.00 350 PAGES

M. C. RICHARDS

“This spiritual and, in many ways, autobiographical work is an eye-opening, heart-awakening, mindexpanding, and imagination-bending achievement.” —Matthew Fox “Some we value for their thinking, others for what they make. But M.C. Richards is that rare one among us who shows us a way by fact of her very presence. All else follows.” —Robert Creeley, poet “M.C. Richard’s poetry is perfect and humane and inspired. In this book, M.C. combines elegance of thought, kindness, and concerned wisdom. The artist, the thinker, the one who feels, are not separate beings; we can sense, remember, and imagine with the body’s soft vulnerability. These pages, and this life, glow with it.” —Michael McClure, poet

. C. Richards’ extraordi-

nary career spans half a M century, stretching from Black

Mountain College to Creation Theology, and passing through lifetimes of pottery, painting, poetry, and teaching. This collection of her work is a celebration of life and, in particular, the life of M. C. Richards, an exemplary twentieth-century Renaissance woman, passionate thinker, and philosophical artist. This new collection by the author of Centering, the timeless classic on art and life, explores themes such as authenticity, imagination, the sources of creativity, creating wholeness through lifelong learning, Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf education, and the sacred quality of Nature. With four color plates showing new paintings and a substantial collection of new poems. Mary Caroline Richards (1916–1999) lived several simultaneous lives, as potter, teacher, essayist, poet, and painter. She received a doctorate in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and honorary doctorate in humanities from King’s College, New York. She wrote several books, including the classic Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person and Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America. ISBN: 0940262789 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $19.95 208 PAGES

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THE DREAM SONG OLAF ÅSTESON

OF

ELEANOR MERRY, ILLUSTRATOR

R 130 years ago, this poem from Norway—a

EDISCOVERED ONLY

rare and beautiful artifact—bears witness to a long tradition of initiation. In lectures on the Christmas mystery, Steiner spoke of its esoteric significance, especially in relation to inner work at Christmastime. The “dream legend” tells of Olaf Åsteson’s initiation by natural forces while asleep from Christmas Eve until the sixth of January. Olaf lives through the terrors experienced through all of the human incarnations, from the Earth’s beginning until the Mystery of Golgotha. The legend describes the deeper meaning of the activities of the Christ and the Archangel Michael in the development of humankind. ISBN: 0854407065 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $12.95 48 PAGES

WHO WROTE BACON? William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon & James I RICHARD RAMSBOTHAM

been

gaining ground that views A Bacon as the covert author MOVEMENT HAS

of the great works attributed to Shakespeare. That movement also wishes to place Bacon on the primary pedestal of British civilization. The author shows substantial evidence that Shakespeare and Bacon were linked, while radically challenging the Baconian movement. He opens remarkable new perspectives on King James I and his connections with Shakespeare and Bacon as well as Jakob Böhme, Rudolf II, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the original Globe Theatre. RICHARD RAMSBOTHAM has taught English literature and worked with the Rose Theatre Company. He teaches drama at Glasshouse College, UK, and is writing a biography. ISBN: 1902636546 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $25.00 184 PAGES 75

Arts & Literature

SING ME

THE

CREATION

PAUL MATTHEWS

inspire you to think and

tools to craft poetry and story. The exercises will prove invaluable for group work, individuals wishing to develop more creativity, and class teachers. ISBN: 1869890604 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $22.00 192 PAGES

Color & Painting

ART An Introductory Reader RUDOLF STEINER Edited by Anne Stockton TEINER’S VISION

of art

that it should reflect Sourwashuman experience of the

divine. This does not mean vague, mystical fantasy; as one of the few true initiates of the twentieth century, he was able to experience the realms from which humanity and all nature descend into temporal and spatial existence. The means by which the living nature of these realms can be expressed is not through rationally expressed concepts—which point only to the material, quantitative perceptions from which they derive — but through the arts, which express the qualitative experiences of life. Before any real progress in art can occur, however, one must have a true sense of spirit, and Steiner tries to help the reader achieve this in these lectures and writings. His topics include the being of the arts; Goethe as the founder of a new science of aesthetics; technology and art; new millenniums; the purpose of modern art and architecture; living walls; glass windows; wall colors; moving the circle; the seven planetary symbols in the first Goetheanum; The Representative of Humanity sculpture; and color, faces, and physiognomy. ISBN: 185584138X BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 272 PAGES

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Architecture & Sculpture

RUDOLF STEINER

write more creatively. More than 300 exerA cises encourage your fantasy and provide the WORKBOOK TO

COLOUR 3 lectures, Dornach, May 6–8, 1921; 9 lectures 1914–1924 (GA 291)

the work of Goethe and his theory of color, Steiner shows how color affects us in life — our health, sense of well being, and feelings. He distinguishes between “image” and “luster” colors and lays a foundation for a technique of working with color that leads to new artistic creativity.

B

UILDING ON

ISBN: 1855840855 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $24.00 224 PAGES

LIGHT, DARKNESS, AND COLOUR IN PAINTING THERAPY Liane Collot d’Herbois HE AUTHOR discovered that one’s constitution, temperament, and illnesss are often revealed through painting, and she went on to developed therapeutic painting based on spiritual science. Art therapy brings about balance and health by working with the relationship between the opposing tendencies of light and darkness in art and the human constitution.

T

ISBN: 0863153275 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 258 PAGES

Edited by Andrew Beard

in the

“Pocket Library of TSpiritual Wisdom Series” HIS VOLUME

provides an excellent overview of Steiner’s ideas for artistic renewal through architecture. Topics include: the origins and nature of architecture; the formative influence of architectural forms; the history of architecture in the light of humankind’s spiritual evolution; a new architecture as a means of uniting with spiritual forces; art and architecture as manifestations of spiritual realities; metamorphosis in architecture; aspects of a new architecture; the first and second Goetheanums; the architecture of a community in Dornach; the temple is the human being; the restoration of the lost temple. ISBN: 1855841231 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $19.95 5X7 288 PAGES A

SYNTHESIS

8 lectures, Berlin, Dornach, 1911–1914 (CW 286)

VOLKER HARLAN

the only overview of Ninetta Sombart’s life and work as a painter. Though her paintings are widely known, they are shown here for the first time as a comprehensive collection. Her style is distinct, with most of her paintings based on Gospel images, showing Jesus as the Son of God rather than Jesus the man. She has developed a unique color technique that better expresses the esoteric aspect of the Christ. Includes more than 90 illustrations. ISBN: 0863154654 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $55.00 9 ½ X 12 ½ INCHES 256 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINER

RUDOLF STEINER

Life and Art

T

An Introductory Reader

ARCHITECTURE AS OF THE ARTS

NINETTA SOMBART

HIS IS

ARCHITECTURE

Introduction by Christian Thal-Jantsen

intro-

duces Steiner’s vision Tof architecture as a culHIS COLLECTION

mination of the arts. As such, architecture is a vital synthesis of sculpture and painting, as well as drama, music and dance. Steiner’s ideas did not remain abstract; he designed and constructed several buildings, including the Goetheanum in Switzerland. A valuable collection for students of architecture, the arts, and social science. Includes color plates and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 185584057X BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 216 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Arts & Literature

CHARTRES

Eurythmy

Music & Singing

Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space GORDON STRACHAN

T

HIS GROUND -BREAK-

ING work explores the magnificent structure of Chartres Cathedral and examines the influences on the medieval master builders. Beginning with Chartres, the author suggests that the roots of Gothic style lie in Islamic architecture. He considers how the experience of a particular architectural space affects us, and how sacred geometry works. Beautifully illustrated in a large format, this is an inspiring and informative book for anyone interested in religious architecture and spirituality. Gordon Strachan is a teacher in the Department of Architecture and the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Church of Scotland minister and the author of Jesus the Master Builder.

ISBN: 0863153917 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $30.00 112 PAGES

HOW THE NEW ART EURYTHMY BEGAN

STEINER has given us a “biography of architecture”—architecture as a living being, from its birth at the beginning of history until today and with indications for the future. We see the story with its own rhythms and patterns as with a human life. In Steiner’s cosmology, architecture has reached (in terms of a human lifespan) the age and energy of the early thirties—so this is really a biography as “progress report.” Here is a concise, richly illustrated introduction to the architectural ideas of Rudolf Steiner. He was an early exponent of what has come to be called organic design in architecture, and this little volume clearly shows Steiner’s influence on architects and designers around the world.

R

UDOLF

ISBN: 0880103809 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 128 PAGES

UNCOVERING

THE

VOICE

The Cleansing Power of Song

Lory Maier-Smits, the First Eurythmist

VALBORG WERBECK-SVÄRDSTRÖM

MAGDALENE SIEGLOCH

Afterword by Dr. Eugene Kolisko

traces the story

the first eurythmist, TLoryof Maier-Smits, with HIS BOOK

artistic care and loving detail. The author describes her early exposure to Anthroposophy; her training under the guidance of Rudolf Steiner from 1912; the first performance of eurythmy during the Theosophical Society festival in 1913; Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the new art of movement; the staging of eurythmy under the direction of Marie Steiner; and Maier-Smits’ later work as a trainer of eurythmists. Also given is an account of Maier-Smits’ path of personal development, her marriage and family life. MAGDELENE SIEGLOCH was born in Stuttgart in 1917 and trained in eurythmy under Else Klink at the Eurythmeum in Stuttgart. ISBN: 0904693902 BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $22.00 168 PAGES

LIVING ARCHITECTURE KENNETH BAYES

OF

FOUNDATIONS EURYTHMY

OF

CURATIVE

MARGARETE KIRCHNER-BOCKHOLT

1921, Rudolf Steiner gave lectures on ther-

eurythmy. For those unable to attend Itheapeutic original courses, Dr Kirchner-Bockholt N

published the basic principles and a collection of Steiner’s advice. This is a comprehensive handbook for eurythmists in therapeutic work as well as an introduction to this effective means of therapy. Previously published as Fundamentals Principles of Curative Eurythmy Dr. Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt was a medical doctor and eurythmist. She worked with Rudolf Steiner, who asked her to develop curative eurythmy and train curative eurythmists. She died in 1973. ISBN: 0863154662 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 192 PAGES

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reasoning, Ttheandauthorcarefulprovides a HROUGH EXERCISES

new, spiritually enlivened interpretation of the singing process. From the essential nature of song, she summons us to work for the purity and preservation of true singing. This edition includes a biographical account of the author by Jürgen Schriefer, as well as previously unpublished photographs. Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström was an opera singer who chose to work from a new perspective that encourages a deeper spiritual understanding of the human voice. In 1924, Steiner asked her to represent the School for Uncovering the Voice, the first anthroposophic school of singing. ISBN: 1855841479 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $25.00 240 PAGES

EXPANDING TONAL AWARENESS A Musical Exploration of the Evolution of Consciousness HEINER RULAND

for composition, Tmusical education, and HE IMPLICATIONS

therapy are immense. Ruland shows how the fundamental elements of music embody distinctive modes of consciousness. He examines the musical systems of ancient humanity and goes on to draw a vivid picture of our contemporary musical situation. With the help of the monochord, the reader can explore new and unfamiliar musical realms. ISBN: 1855841703 LARGE FORMAT BOOK (HARDCOVER) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $60.00 187 PAGES

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Science & Nature

Speech & Drama

THE SOULS’ AWAKENING A Mystery Drama

RUDOLF STEINER

Translated by Hans & Ruth Pusch Written in 1914 (CW 14)

Translated by Catherine E. Creeger Introduction by David Booth 6 lectures, Mar. 24–June 7, 1905, and 2 lectures, Nov. 7, 1905 & Oct. 22, 1908, Berlin (CW 324a)

fourth mystery

drama, an enlightened Ientrepreneur appoints

a scientist, a historian, and an artist to use their metaphysical perceptions to transform his business. A colleague objects, and conflicts lead to crises. We follow the characters on a journey through different states of consciousness, until they finally return to their present difficulties with a greater understanding of their interwoven destinies. ISBN: 0880104260 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $12.95 5¼X8 192 PAGES

THE SOUL’S AWAKENING A Drama of the Soul & Spirit

Rudolf Steiner Translated by Michael Burton &Adrian Locher Written in 1914 (CW 14)

for Portal

Productions’ mid-1990s international tour A of the drama. LTERNATE TRANSLATION

ISBN: 090469366X BOOK (PAPERBACK) TEMPLE LODGE $12.95 144 PAGES

WORKING TOGETHER ON RUDOLF STEINER’S MYSTERY DRAMAS HANS PUSCH

Ruth Pusch directed perfor-

mances in America and translated the four H plays into English. An excellent workbook for ANS AND

performing the plays and for insight into the plays’ spiritual content and significance. ISBN: 0910142912 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $9.95 160 PAGES HARDCOVER; ISBN: 0910142904; $15.95 78

THE FOURTH DIMENSION Sacred Geometry, Alchemy & Mathematics

RUDOLF STEINER

N THE

Science & Nature

HE POINT,

line, plane

objects repreTsentandthesolid first three dimen-

sions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a fourth dimension. Here, Steiner leads us to the brink of this new perspective. In doing so, he continues his lifelong project of demonstrating that our objective, everyday thinking is the lowest rung of a ladder that reaches up to literally infinite heights. Topics include: • the relationship between geometric studies and developing direct perception of spiritual realities • how to construct a fourth-dimensional hypercube • the six dimensions of the self-aware human being • problems with the theory of relativity • the Trinity and angelic hierarchies and their relationship to physical space • more. ISBN: 0880104724 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $24.95 256 PAGES

ECLIPSES 2005–2017 A Handbook of Solar and Lunar Eclipses & Other Rare Astronomical Events WOLFGANG HELD

for

Teclipse viewers gives detailed information on HIS HANDBOOK

solar and lunar eclipses for the next twelve years. Maps show the best points for viewing, and the author provides background and tips for viewers. Includes safety glasses for solar eclipses plus 150 maps & color images. ISBN: 0863154786 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $19.95 224 PAGES

ECO-GEOGRAPHY What We See When We Look at Landscapes ANDREAS SUCHANTKE

travel

across the counW try, to work, or to your HETHER YOU

children’s soccer games, you pass landscape along your way. What do you see as you look around? Author Andreas Suchantke shows you new ways to see and experience the world around you wherever you go. What do we really see when we look at a landscape? Suchantke, a biologist, science teacher, and attentive traveler, offers details and telling observations of some of the most fascinating landscapes on Earth — the savannahs of East Africa, the rainforests of South America and Africa, the unique islands of New Zealand, the Great Rift Valley of Africa, and the Middle East. He brings us to landscapes that have been severely damaged by human activity and others, such as the island of Sri Lanka, where nature and human culture have been brought into paradisial harmony. His beautiful descriptions and illustrations alone are worth the trip, but these essays are even more than great nature and ecology writing. Suchantke’s real interest is a new way of seeing the physical landscape. This approach is based on precise observation, which is not then just analyzed “objectively,” but recreated in an active act of imagination. Nature is then experienced as a form of meaning, a language. And, as Suchantke abundantly shows us, the quality of our relationship to nature is determined by how well we understand this language. The practical use of the imagination is thus an ecological activity. Andreas Suchantke was born in Basel and trained in zoology and botany. He taught natural sciences for nineteen years in the Waldorf school in Zurich and has worked extensively in Waldorf teacher training programs around the world. Suchantke works in Israel in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Nature. Includes eighty illustrations. ISBN: 0940262991 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $18.95 256 PAGES

H e l p s u p p o r t o u r w o r k — o rd e r d i re c t

Science & Nature

CHILDHOOD

DOES IT MATTER?

And Human Evolution

The Unsustainable World of the Materialists

FRIEDRICH KIPP

that child-

K hood and youth—an extended period of nurture IPP SHOWS

and protection from the struggle for existence—is a necessary condition for human evolution. His comparative study of the juvenile stage in animals and humans also illuminates the process of human evolution and our relationship to the animal primates. In their earliest developmental stage, animals show characteristics reminiscent of human children. Such characteristics are quickly lost, however, as animals adapt to ecological conditions. These facts suggests that the main trunk of the evolutionary tree is closely associated with human evolution. ISBN: 0932776337 BOOK (PAPERBACK) ADONIS PRESS $14.95 128 PAGES

DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS In Humans and Other Primates Discovering Evolutionary Principles through Comparative Morphology JOS VERHULST

the evolutionary V theory that dynamic prinERHULST ELABORATES

ciples in the development of individual organisms also function in all animal evolution. A chimpanzee fetus is strikingly similar to its human counterpart, but as it develops, the chimp diverges from its original, humanlike form, assuming specialized apelike features, whereas human beings retain a relatively juvenile form. The author concludes that humans did not descend from apes but that apes evolved away from the prototype related to humankind. He also shows that our human tendency to retain our fetal form is complemented by further development of such organs as the legs, heels, forebrain, and larynx, through which we attain our eminently human capacities of upright posture, thinking, and speech. ISBN: 0932776299 BOOK (PAPERBACK) ADONIS PRESS $24.95 432 PAGES

GRAHAM DUNSTAN MARTIN

that the mind, conM sciousness, life, evolution, ATERIALISTS CLAIM

and the universe itself can be explained as a purposeless dance of unconscious particles governed by chance. Does It Matter? asks: does materialism, in fact, make sense? Martin delves into areas as diverse as quantum physics, cosmology, artificial intelligence, brain science, biology, mysticism, and philosophy to assess the possibilities that the materialists are right. Are we living souls? Is our universe really the result of intelligent design? The author’s conclusion is that computers will never become conscious; that the mind is not the same as the brain; that we geniunely and creatively possess free will; and that our experience of diverse levels of consciousness simply cannot be explained by a strictly materialistic approach to reality. This book is for every inquiring mind and for all those who are dissatisfied with the mainstream beliefs of conventional science. ISBN: 0863155332 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 256 PAGES

EARTH-FRIENDLY

Re-Visioning Science and Spirituality through Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas & Rudolf Steiner SR. ADRIAN HOFSTETTER ARTH-FRIENDLY

E the fruits of a lifetime of study and REPRESENTS

teaching in search of a holistic, organismic, living science, respectful of the sacredness of nature and the ubiquity of the spirit. As a biology philosopher, Sister Adrian’s first teachers were Aquinas and Aristotle; later she came to know the work of Goethe and Rudolf Steiner. The book traces the development of Sister Adrian’s conviction that “the spiritual science flowing from the thought of St. Albert and St.Thomas, as developed seven hundred years later by Rudolf Steiner, could recapture the true greatness of the West as it reaches out to

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the East to create an ‘Earth-friendly re-visioning of science and spirituality.’” Sister Adrian Hofstetter is a Dominican nun, science teacher, and civil rights activist. ISBN: 1584200235 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $20.00 192 PAGES

GOETHE AND RHYTHM

THE

POWER

OF

A Biographical Essay JOHN BARNES

a pow-

erful 18.6 year rhythm B in Goethe’s biography, ARNES TRACES

showing how his creative genius unfolded through repeated periods of crises and renewal. The fact that this rhythm corresponds exactly with cyclical movements of the Earth and Moon suggests a strong connection between the life of Goethe and the pulsing life of nature. John Barnes, after teaching at Waldorf schools for 25 years, is now a publisher and author, focusing on his lifelong interest in Goethean, phenomenological science. ISBN: 0932776248 BOOK (PAPERBACK) ADONIS PRESS $10.00 96 PAGES

THE HERITAGE

OF

TREES

History, Culture & Symbolism FRED HAGENEDER WIDE-RANGING

A of the symbolism and cultural STUDY

meaning of the tree through history, from the Cosmic Tree of antiquity to modern European, American, and Asian customs and beliefs. In the companion volume, The Spirit of Trees, Hageneder captivated readers with a passionate and informed account of the natural life and ecology of trees. The Heritage of Trees evokes forest customs, images and meanings of the forest from the Stone Age to modern times. ISBN: 0863153593 BOOK (HARDCOVER) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 224 PAGES 79

Science & Nature

EMERSON

AND

SCIENCE

PETER OBUCHOWSKI

ISBN: 1584200324 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $25.00 144 PAGES OF

NATURAL SCIENCE

RUDOLF STEINER 9 lectures, Dornach, Dec. 1922– Jan. 1923 (CW 326) Introduction by Owen Barfield

the subtle changes in

notions and feelings in relation to Sthehuman development of natural science and shows TEINER TRACES

the significance of scientific research and thinking. As we look at the fruits of modern technology, we may have a feeling of grief. This feeling, Steiner says, will become the most important impetus to seek the spirit. ISBN: 0880101407 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $10.95 148 PAGES

HOPE, EVOLUTION,

AND

CHANGE

JOHN DAVY Introduction by Owen Barfield

reflects the author’s work as sci-

entist, journalist, and lecturer. It includes Tarticles on evolution, language, education, HIS BOOK

science, caring for the planet, life after life, and thinkers such as E. F. Schumacher and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. ISBN: 0950706272 BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $13.95 274 PAGES 80

An Anthology of Goethe’s Scientific Writings

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SUNSPOTS

A Story of Discovery & Scientific Revolution JUDIT BRODY

he author

Tdescribes a strange and powerful phenom-

ena that may hold a key to our understanding of the Sun. Judit Brody tells the fascinating history of the efforts to study sunspots, beginning with the lives and quarrels of those pioneers who first charted their mysterious patterns of behavior. JUDIT BRODY holds a masters degree in History and Philosophy of Science and writes for scientific publications, including New Scientist magazine. ISBN: 0863153704 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $25.00 168 PAGES

SCIENCE

Jeremy Naydler, editor • foreword by Henri Bortoft

whatever character we put into it. Thus the way we treat water is fundamental to our health and that of our planet. Working with his remarkable invention, the flowform, Wilkes uncovered many hidden secrets of water, while creating a beautiful art form. This lavishly illustrated book is based on a lifetime of research. The author discusses the rhythm and polarity of water; the discovery, designs, and uses of the flowform; and his research into the nature of water. This is the best book available on Wilkes’ unique approach to water. JOHN WILKES, whose years of research at the Flow Sciences in Herrischried, Germany, led to his development of the Flowform Method, is currently the director of the Virbela Rhythm Research Institute in Forest Row, Sussex, UK.

THE ENIGMA

ON

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

John

Wilkes, water is A the universal bearer of CCORDING TO

aspects in his literature as it relates to Goethe’s scientific worldview in the context of Darwin’s theories. Obuchowski shows how early nineteenth-century science helped shape the thinking of this truly American philosopher, poet, and mystic. PETER A. OBUCHOWSKI taught English literature at Central Michigan University, where he is currently professor emeritus. He has written numerous articles on literature of the Romantic period.

THE ORIGINS

GOETHE

The Rhythmic Power of Water JOHN WILKES

of

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that we should study Inature and our world as T WAS

our home. He adopted a qualitative approach to science — one at odds with Newtonian, quantitative methods. Goethe’s subtle science includes our interrelationship with nature. Recently, his ideas have drawn the attention of scientists such as Adolf Portmann and Werner Heisenberg. Goethe’s science is as much a path of inner development as it is a way of accumulating knowledge. It involves a rigorous training for observation and thinking. In this anthology, Jeremy Naydler provides the first systematic arrangement of extracts from Goethe’s major scientific works. They give us a clear picture of Goethe’s fundamentally unique approach to scientific study of the natural world. ISBN: 0863152376 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $25.00 144 PAGES

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ing nature. Detailed scientific facts are closely interwoven with artistic observation as the authors answer the question, “How do we develop a way of perceiving and thinking which will do justice to life processes?” A wide variety of common plants are beautifully drawn at every stage of their development— from bud and seed to flower and fruit—and are complemented by clear instructions, enabling the reader to create finely observed and accurate drawings. ISBN: 186989085X BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $30.00 160 PAGES

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Science & Nature

SCIENCE

THE MYSTERY

An Introductory Reader

E. L. GRANT WATSON

RUDOLF STEINER

Preface by Owen Barfield Foreword by Ralph Twentyman

Edited by Howard Smith

of the “Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom Series” gives an overview of Steiner’s ideas related to science, presented from the perspective of a modern initiate and clairvoyant seer. Topics include: from pre-science to science; the origin of mathematics; the roots of physics and chemistry, and the urge to experiment; the boundaries of science; understanding organisms: Goethe’s method; the quest for archetypal phenomena; light, darkness, and color; the rediscovery of the elements; the nature of warmth; the scale of nature; the function of the ethers in the physical; subnature; the nature of atoms; and the natural and spiritual sciences.

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THE MARRIAGE OF SENSE & THOUGHT Imaginative Participation in Science STEPHEN EDELGLASS, GEORG MAIER, HANS GEBERT & JOHN DAVY

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natural science, contemporary science has reduced the world to particles and forces well beyond the reach of human senses. In fact, there is no longer any place in science for human experience. Concepts of modern physics such as mass, force, and velocity are deeply rooted in the experience of specific senses, each a gateway into a different aspect of the world. This sheds new light on dilemmas such as the wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics. This highly readable book lays the foundations for a science that, while maintaining its rigorous methodology, can begin to incorporate the fullness of human experience into its domain. Previous edition: Matter and Mind. ISBN: 0940262827 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $16.95 160 PAGES

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. L. Grant Watson, an English field naturalist, zoologist, and a popular nature writer, spent his life trying to bring nature and consciousness into a unified, holistic vision that would establish meaning in the world without losing wonder. The questions raised by facts of nature inexplicable in terms of conventional theories, together with insights gained from a reading of Jung—as well as by a study of early Christian gnostic literature and the Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner—brought him to an imaginative perception of living things based on the conviction of the presence in all things of a spiritual reality.

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NATURE’S OPEN SECRET Introductions to Goethe’s Scientific Writings RUDOLF STEINER Written 1884–1897 (CW 1) Edited and introduced by John Barnes

young age of

twenty-one, Steiner was A chosen to edit Goethe’s T THE

scientific writings—to understand and comment on his unique scientific achievement. Steiner recognized the compelling power of Goethe’s studies of nature, and he developed Goethe’s epistemology in remarkable and far-reaching ways. This was also the beginning of Steiner’s training in epistemology and spiritual science. This book describes a new way of perceiving the world. Includes an essay on participatory science by John Barnes. ISBN: 0880103930 BOOK (HARDCOVER) STEINERBOOKS $35.00 320 PAGES

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The Idea of the Type as a Key to Vertebrate Evolution ERNST-MICHAEL KRANICH

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K a central problem of evolutionary science and, RANICH FOCUSES

based on Goethe’s scientific investigations, demonstrates the coherence and inner dynamics of organisms. By applying Goethe’s method to evolutionary thinking, he shows that evolution is governed by the inner laws of living organisms, and that we must participate in these processes through formative thinking. Ernst-Michael Kranich is director of the Free University in Stuttgart, and a lecturer at the University of Marburg. ISBN: 0940262932 BOOK (PAPERBACK) LINDISFARNE BOOKS $17.95 192 PAGES

PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY LAWRENCE EDWARDS

in this book reveal the secrets

of space. With over 200 instructive diaTgrams, Edwards presents a clear, artistic explaHE EXERCISES

nation of non-Euclidian geometry, leading the reader into imaginative space. A valuable resource for teachers that demystifies this fascinating approach to geometry. Laurence Edwards, the author of The Vortex of Life, has researched and taught this subject for more than forty years. ISBN: 0863153933 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $34.95 352 PAGES

THE SUN

The Ancient Mysteries and a New Physics GEORG BLATTMANN

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THE TOURMALINE A Monograph FRIEDRICH BENESCH & BERNHARD WOHRMANN

Tqualities of the mysterious tourmaline are HE EXTRAORDINARY

unique in the mineral realm. This volume has involved fourteen years of visits to scientific collections in London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, supplemented by contacts and correspondence with experts around the world. A miracle of nature, the tourmaline is a precious stone, having perhaps the greatest range of figuration and coloring of any gem. The importance of this book lies in the lavish illustrations and far-reaching cognitive treatment of the tourmaline. At the heart of this monograph are approximately 400 color photographs by some of the best photographers of these gems. The concluding text looks at these unique specimens from a Goethean perspective and provides a historical survey of our encounters with tourmalines throughout the ages, explaining how tourmalines, through their multifaceted, polychromatic guise, came to be invested with such a panoply of meanings, which remained unacknowledged for centuries. This is a book that your family will treasure for generations to come. ISBN: 3825174050 BOOK (HARDCOVER) 12” X 16” URACHHAUS $150.00 248 PAGES

AURORA

The Northern Lights in Mythology, History and Science HARALD FALCK-YTTER

light of the aurora borealis appears in the sparsely populated polar regions of the North, during the long winter nights. Little is known about this ethereal occurrence, which gives dazzling displays of ghostly light and movement. The author has spent years studying the aurora, and in this book he reveals the mythology that surrounds the aurora in various northern cultures. He also discusses the science behind the phenomenon, as it has devel-

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oped through history. In addition, Falck-Ytter records responses to the aurora, from Aristotle to modern geophysicists, and from various cultures and traditions, thus charting the gradual understanding of this most awe-inspiring experience. Demonstrating the influence of the Sun in the creation of the aurora, Falck-Ytter also compares the northern lights with other light phenomena such as lightning and rainbows. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white paintings, photos, and drawings, Aurora offers a comprehensive understanding of a mysterious dynamic that has fascinated and even alarmed northern communities through the ages. ISBN: 0880104686 BOOK (PAPERBACK) BELL POND BOOKS $19.95 [ QUANTITY LIMITED ] 144 PAGES

SENSITIVE CHAOS THEODOR SCHWENK Preface by Jacques Cousteau

illus-

classic text on Twatertrated, phenomena shows

how forces become form. Theodor Schwenk shows that the laws governing the subtle patterns of moving water are the same as those perceptible in bones, muscles, and myriads of other natural forms. He illustrates these unifying forces in phenomena such as the flight of birds, the movement of fish, the human sense organs, sound, mountains and deltas, sand patterns, and much more. ISBN: 1855840553 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $38.00 232 PAGES

PARANORMAL

THE

Altered States of Reality ARTHUR ELLISON LLISON, WHO

had

out-of-body, lucid E dreaming, and clairvoy-

ant experiences, writes convincingly about the limits of the scientific worldview and emphasizes the importance of paranormal phenomena and the evidence of parapsychology to revealing the true nature of human beings. Arthur Ellison was a distinguished professor of engineering and president of the Society for Psychical Research. He died in 2000. ISBN: 0863153682 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $40.00 384 PAGES

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JOCHEN BOCKEMÜHL, EDITOR

NORMAN DAVIDSON

led from

Moon, and various planets to the Copernican revolution, to comets and meteors, and to the sky of the Southern Hemisphere. The text includes mythological and historical aspects of the subject and numerous

essays

A that acquaints the reader with the various COLLECTION OF

A Guide to Naked-Eye Observation of the Stars EADERS ARE

SCIENCE &

TOWARD A PHENOMENOLOGY THE ETHERIC WORLD

SKY PHENOMENA

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Foreword by David Fontana

The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air

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exercises. Also includes a unique collection of poetry of the stars from ancient India to modern times, future astronomical events, technical data, materials and publications, and a comprehensive glossary of astronomical terms. NORMAN DAVIDSON was born in Edinburgh and was a journalist in the UK for ten years, before becoming a Waldorf school teacher of astronomy, geometry, history, and literature. He has been director of teacher training at the Waldorf Institute of Sunbridge College. He lectures on astronomy and cultural topics.

aspects of the etheric world and the formative movements and forces that are the very “substance” of life. Illustrated. ISBN: 0880101156 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 240 PAGES

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Biodynamic Farming & Gardening

UNDERSTANDING WATER

WATER CRYSTALS

WHAT IS BIODYNAMICS?

Developments from the Work of Theodor Schwenk

Making the Quality of Water Visible

Five Lectures

ANDREAS WILKENS, MICHAEL JACOBI & WOLFRAM SCHWENK

ANDREAS SCHULZ

RUDOLF STEINER

uses a groundbreaking photographic process to make the quality of various kinds of water instantly visible to anyone. Using “crystal pictures,” he shows that water from different locations and treated in different ways will display substantially different and visible characteristics. This beautifully produced book provides a unique insight into the world of water — its life cycles, its nature, and its structures. Illustrated in color throughout.

Introduction by Hugh Courtney TEINER’S LECTURES and Courtney’s extensive introduction offer an entry to understanding the practice of biodynamic methods and their spiritual and esoteric background. Based on a deep understanding of the life forces at work in nature, biodynamic farmers and gardeners use special preparations to increase the energetic quality of the soil, stimulating plant growth and health, going beyond conventional organic practices.

always

experienced the lifeP giving and healing forces EOPLE HAVE

of water. It is integral to life and surrounds us in nature and in our own bodies. But not all water is the same. It can carry beneficial or harmful energies. So how can we understand water enough to tell the difference? Theodor Schwenk, the author of Sensitive Chaos, developed the “drop picture” method to photographically display the characteristics of water for anyone to see and understand. The authors of this stunningly illustrated book offer a unique view into the world of water, helping us better understand one of the most essential elements of our earthly life. ISBN: 0863155405 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $25.00 112 PAGES

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Biodynamic Farming & Gardening

ORTOFT, A

student of J. G. Bennett and David Bohm, introduces the scientific theories of Goethe and shows how his way of science is a genuine alternative to the dominant scientific paradigm. This is a unique and gentle empiricism. Goethe’s participatory phenomenology, far from being a historical curiosity, proposes a workable solution to the dilemmas of contemporary, postmodern science. HENRI BORTOFT taught physics and philosophy of science. He lectures and gives seminars on Goethean science.

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AGRICULTURE

An Introductory Reader RUDOLF STEINER Richard Thornton Smith, editor

New!

PRINCIPLES OF BIODYNAMIC SPRAY AND COMPOST PREPARATIONS MANFRED KLETT

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Mrenowned biodynamic expert, provides a fascinatANFRED

ing overview of the history of agriculture. He then discusses the practicalities of spray and compost preparations and the philosophy behind them. This book is essential for all biodynamic gardeners and farmers who wish to better understand the background of fundamental biodynamic techniques. Dr Manfred Klett is a founder of a biodynamic farming community in Germany. He is the former head of the Agricultural Section at the Goetheanum. He has more than twenty years’ experience in biodynamic agriculture. ISBN: 0863155421 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $12.95 112 PAGES

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Goethe’s Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature

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ods for agricultural renewal. The editor has gathered essential extracts from Rudolf Steiner’s lectures, making this a great introduction for anyone wishing a way to understand this quickly growing movement in farming and gardening. ISBN: 1855841134 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $17.95 256 PAGES

70 YEARS A-GROWING JEAN WESTLAKE

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Westlake family—from developing a wellTknown vacation retreat to their acclaimed proHIS ENTICING

duce. The humor and intriguing stories of this fascinating life contain a gold mine of gardening information and is an eminently enjoyable story of a fascinating family. Illustrated. ISBN: 186989037X BOOK (PAPERBACK) HAWTHORN PRESS $26.00 272 PAGES

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THE BIODYNAMIC SOWING & PLANTING CALENDAR 2007 the 2007 edi-

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DEVELOPING BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE Reflections on Early Research ADALBERT COUNT KEYSERLINGK

present when biodynamic methods were introduced by Rudolf Steiner. His book reflects his life-long absorption in biodynamic methods. It presentspersonal experiences of Steiner at work, reflections on research and experimentation (including photographic documentation), and descriptions of biodynamic preparations.

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BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE WILLY SCHILTHUIS

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crops put down deeper roots, show strong resistance to disease and have better keeping qualities than conventionally produced crops. Willy Schilthuis was president of the Dutch Biodynamic Association for twenty-five years. She has written several books on biodynamics. ISBN: 0863153976 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $14.95 128 PAGES

THE AGRICULTURE COURSE The Birth of the Biodynamic Method RUDOLF STEINER Preface by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer 8 lectures, Koberwitz, Jun 7–16, 1924 (CW 327)

talks, Steiner launched the

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regarded as the best organically produced food. The agriculture Steiner speaks of is much more than organic; it works with the cosmos, the Earth, and spirit beings. He prescribes “preparations” for the soil and methods derived from his deep understanding of the physical and spiritual worlds. ISBN: 1855841487 BOOK (PAPERBACK) RUDOLF STEINER PRESS $26.00 176 PAGES

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best times to plant various vegetables; how to deal with pests and diseases; ways to build the soil; and the effects of planets and stars on plant growth.

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discusses cosmic rhythms and shows the most suitable days to help prevent disease and pests. Methods of fertilizing and spraying have been developed that further enhance produce and allow a sustainable and ecologically balanced agriculture. Includes sections on the stars, the soil, composting and manuring, weeds, and pests, as well as growing cereals, vegetables, herbs, fruit and vineyards. ISBN: 0863154204 BOOK (PAPERBACK) FLORIS BOOKS $30.00 224 PAGES

The Star of the Magi and the Life of Christ ROBERT POWELL

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Magi” that led them to Bethlehem? Based on the work of Rudolf Steiner and Anne Catherine Emmerich, and his own research, Powell focuses on the path of Christ, culminating in the Mystery of Golgotha. ROBERT POWELL, born in Reading, England, received a master’s degree in mathematics and trained as a eurythmist and movement therapist. He lives in Kinsau, Germany, and is is author of numerous books and articles and a cofounder of the Sophia Foundation of North America. See also Chronicle of the Living Christ. ISBN: 0880104619 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $14.95 [ LIMITED QUANTITY ] 312 PAGES

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Star Wisdom

WILLI SUCHER

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cosmos and Christ’s activities during his Sthreetheyears of earthly ministry. He describes UCHER DISCUSSES

cosmic evolution, the planetary spheres, the Archangel Michael in relation to the stars. WILLI SUCHER devoted his life to Anthroposophy, working closely with Dr. Elizabeth Vreede, a leader in the spiritual research of astronomy and mathematics in the Anthroposophical Society. He devoted almost sixty years to developing “star wisdom,” or astrosophy, which he considered most appropriate for modern humanity. ISBN: 0880103698 BOOK (PAPERBACK) STEINERBOOKS $16.95 224 PAGES

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Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha The Sun Mystery, Esoteric and Exoteric Christianity Youth and the Etheric Heart Death as Change Freemasonry and Ritual Work Esoteric Lessons Volume 1(1904-1909) Esoteric Lessons Volume 2 (1909 –1914) The Rosicrucian Unity of Art, Science, and Religion Spiritual Relations in the Human Organism The Influence of the Dead on Destiny Anthroposophical Foundations for a Renewed ChriostianReligious Activity (Priests’ Course, vol 1)

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Christianity as Mystical Fact Way of Self Knowledge & Threshold of the Spiritual World; Autobiography Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World The Mission of Folk Souls The Truth of Evolution World of the Senses, World of the Spirit Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies Bhagavad Gita and the West The Effects of Esoteric Development Becoming Michael’s Companions From the Contents of the First Esoteric School Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine The Healing Process World Economy

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independent bookstores) iv. through anthroposophic outlets such as Rudolf Steiner College and Sunbridge College bookstores, Waldorf schools, as well as resellers like Bob and Nancy’s and the Steiner Store. v. internationally through distributors like Rudolf Steiner Press in London and other distributors in Australia, Asia, and Africa. More than 85% of our books are sold at very high discounts to wholesalers and retailers where we have to accept the standard industry norms, while, in the case of anthroposophical outlets like the schools, we also offer a high discount as a way of supporting the anthroposophical movements. Our average discount comes out to approximately 50%. In other words, on a $20.00 book that we have published, we receive $10.00. Out of this $10.00 we have to cover all our marketing expenses (catalogs, maintaining distribution databases, and our own website maintenance, and so on); editorial expenses; warehousing costs; shipping and billing fees; as well as cover our general overhead; and salaries for four full-time people and one part-time person. We also distribute titles from other like-minded publishers (including Rudolf Steiner Press, Temple Lodge, Clairview, Floris Books, Hawthorn Press, Lantern, and Chiron). For these titles, the margins are even smaller — we receive between 10% and 30% of net. When you consider the relatively low volume of our sales — a 2000-copy printing of a new Steiner title can take three or four years to sell — you can see that the net cash flow coming from sales is, to say the least, low.

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A Way of Self-Knowledge Introduction by Christopher Bamford STEINER’S lifework was dedicated to the proposition that

the critical conditions of our time require a fundamental metanoia, R or transformation of consciousness. For this reason, at the heart of his UDOLF

cultural, spiritual, and esoteric endeavor we always find the question of method — the development of a new way of knowing and being. Coming of age during the last third of the nineteenth century, Steiner was faced with the overwhelming evidence that materialism was not only a house built dangerously on sand, but also potentially destructive of the entire divine cosmic human experiment we call “Earth.” From the beginning, his main concern was to respond to the historical spiritual call for a new epistemological path that, affirming the spiritual foundations of phenomenal reality, united the spiritual in humanity with the spiritual in the cosmos. His overriding concern with method, however, was not always understood. Immensely gifted and prolific as a spiritual researcher, and producing a staggering, near-encyclopedic richness in his work, Steiner found himself inevitably engaged in a perpetual struggle against people’s natural and enthusiastic tendency to emphasize information over method. Yet for him method was always primary. Method gives content its value and meaning. Content is nothing unless it is realized by those who heard and read his works. Moreover, viewed from a certain perspective one might say that, in the end, he was not concerned with content in any sense, because the substance of his lectures and books are in fact not content at all, but rather reports of spiritual research in the form of injunctions or themes for meditation: “Meditate this and you will discover — experience — for yourself how this is the case.” All of which is to say that Rudolf Steiner was, above all, a spiritual teacher, a teacher of a new, cognitive path of meditation into the spiritual world for the sake of the union — that is,, transfiguration — of the spiritual suprasensory and sensory worlds. From his earliest years, Steiner experienced that the omnipresent, creative presence of the invisible spiritual world was just as real and certain as the reality of the so-called physical world revealed through the senses, which it permeated. Consequently, almost as soon as he became conscious, he dedicated himself to the task of providing a path whereby others could experience the certainty of spiritual reality — and all that followed from it — for themselves. At nine, he found his first confirmation in geometry that one could know something solely through the soul’s own power of thinking. That experience taught him that his task would be to create as bridge between the visible world accessed by the soul through the senses and the invisible one in which the soul could live unaided by the senses. Confronted by these two worlds, experience further taught him that they functioned as one and must, in fact, be one, since the world is clearly a unity — a universe. To unite the two sides of this coin became a pressing task. His first guide was the philosopher Kant, in whom he sought to understand the relationship between thinking and phenomena. In a sense, Kant discovered “thinking” for the modern world, but he severely limited its scope and range; thinking could understand itself, its own forms, but it could not understand the world as it was in itself. In other words, he merely made Descartes’ dualism of mind

and body — “thinking substance” and “extended substance” — more sophisticated. Steiner knew from experience, however, that “thinking could be developed into a power that truly includes the things and processes of the world” — that human cognition, or consciousness, is in principle limitless in its capacity to know. As he put it in Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: “In thinking, we have hold of a corner of world process.” But he adds, “We have to be present if anything is to occur.” How, then, to be present in thinking? Kant, in turn, led to Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, who shifted the context of exploration from the a priori forms of human cognition to the creative primacy of the transcendental “I.” Steiner sought and realized the truth of Schelling’s statement: “Within everyone dwells a secret, marvelous capacity to draw back from the stream of time — out of the self clothed in all that comes from the outside — into our innermost being, and, there, in the immutable form of the Eternal, to look into ourselves.” At the same time, during this whole period, “constantly, with increasing deliberation,” Steiner sought to give conceptual form to his direct perception of the spiritual world. Entering technical college, while continuing to “seek truth through philosophy,” his field of research broadened considerably. On the one hand, he was introduced to the paradigmshifting work of the great poet, dramatist, novelist, and “hermetic” scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who metamorphosed traditional alchemical thinking into a vehicle for the transformation of natural science; on the other, he became acquainted with a true practitioner of that ancient way of thinking, a “deeply pious” herb gatherer, Felix Koguzki, who could “look into the secrets of nature.” Under Koguzki’s guidance, Steiner was able through his own powers of perception to begin to access, in a modern cognitive, conscious way, the spiritual realities active in nature. Continuing his philosophical and consciousness experiments, Steiner began to understand that the more he penetrated the experience of thinking, the more spiritual realities came to meet him. Although only twenty-two, he felt he was approaching a state of consciousness that would allow him to justify his perception of the spiritual world “even to the forum of scientific thinking.” His master here was Goethe, who understood the unity of thinking and perceiving, which makes it possible to “see” the idea in the phenomenon (which was already theory or idea) and conversely to experience thinking as “an organ of perception,” a form of seeing and seeing itself as a form of thinking. One can follow Steiner step by step as he lays the groundwork for his own path in his first two books — the introductions to Goethe’s scientific writings, Nature’s Open Secret (CW1), and The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe’s World View (CW2). The intensive work with Goethe then bore fruit preliminarily in his dissertation, Truth and Knowledge (CW3), and conclusively in 1894 in Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy Freedom (CW4). The latter, while posing as a work of philosophy, is in fact Rudolf Steiner’s first book of spiritual practice or exercise. It is the foundation of his method or way — a work whose contents must not only be read but must also be done. After all, it is one thing to say that to live in sensefree thinking is to live in the spiritual world that permeates the sensory, but it is quite another to experience it. Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path is Steiner’s account of his own journey across the subject–object abyss to the inner awakening that is the experience of the “I.” It is an extraordinary and existential work, one with a unique capacity to change readers once and for all. Yet at the same time it is completely personal — the “biography of a soul struggling to freedom.” As he wrote to his friend

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2. There is the sequence of books, wholly or partially concerned explicitly with Rosa Mayreder, “Everything in my book is personal, even the shape of the thoughts. . . . I took my own path and followed it as well as I was inner development — from Theosophy (CW9/1904), How to Know High able.” But the personal is so intensely realized that it becomes universal. Worlds (CW10 /1905), Stages of Higher Knowledge (CW12/1908), and If one reads the book meditatively, intensely, and with passion — taking An Outline of Esoteric Science (CW13/1910) to the present volume (CW15 in Steiner’s account as a blueprint to realize the same experiences in and 16/1912–1913). Steiner’s four mystery dramas (CW14/1910–1913) one’s own way — then, as he repeatedly insisted throughout his years should probably be added to this list. Technically they are plays, works of as a spiritual teacher, Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path is the prerequisite literary art, but they are also initiatory dramas and therefore reveal their for true spiritual knowing: spiritual science, or Anthroposophy. At the meaning only through meditation or enacting them meditatively. time of writing, however, Steiner’s explicit outer aim remained cultural 3. There is a vast amount of meditation instruction and meditations related to rather than esoteric; he wished to influence the philosophical and episthe two classes of the Esoteric School (CW 264, 265, 266 (I, II, III), 267, temological foundations of the age and addressed the philosophers and 268), which become at the end of his life (1923/4) the “First Class Lessons” scientists of his time. Not surprisingly, his message was ignored; but of the High School of Spiritual Science. another field was being prepared. With the decision six years later to work esoterically as a spiritual 4. There are the meditations and letters of instruction and guidance given to teacher within the Theosophical Society, the context of Rudolf Steinindividual students. These are important, for they make is clear that, as the er’s task and the audience changed. The contexts, as well as the rules “teacher,” Rudolf Steiner was primarily a meditation teacher. determining what he could speak of, were both Though it might not seem so at first glance, altered. While still depending on the achievethere was both a shift and perfect continuments of Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path, the teiner is, in fact, always ity in Steiner’s inner path when he entered language was no longer primarily “philosophteaching meditation. The the explicitly esoteric stream represented by ical,” but now essentially meditative, or spiriTheosophy. Before the turn of the century, tual. Given the Theosophical content, the task form of his books and lectures, the focus of Steiner’s inner work was philobecame to realize them in experience — to even when not explicitly sophical — epistemological — and individual. release their meanings from brain-bound conIt was framed above all by his passionate teaching meditation, is always sciousness. Method, or path, therefore became desire for truth and freedom and his undermore basic than ever, as did the human epistemeditative. standing that contemporary consciousness mological situation that defined his audience. demanded that this path unfold transparently Steiner turned the spiritual cognitive faculthrough experience purified of preconceptions ties he had developed during the previous thirty arising from the conditioned organism. He made this path his own and years toward researching explicitly spiritual realities. Thus, the question received significant results from it, including a profound experience of of method became even more pressing on two counts. First, he felt the the Christ. Entering Theosophy, he was faced with entire and, in a sense, responsibility of ensuring that the content pouring superabundantly finished traditions of inner work, which he had to penetrate, open, out of his own research would be understood in a new way: as living transform, and formalize in the light of what he knew in order to create realities. Understood in the “old,” conventional way, content remained a “new” esoteric school consonant with the epistemological foundajust content, and only the contents of their respective systems would tions he knew — from experience — to be necessary. distinguish an Anthroposophist from a Marxist or any other “-ist.” Thus, his framework — his language — moved from philosophy to Second, Steiner was dedicated to the evolution and transformation of meditation. The process remained the same: the gradual liberation of consciousness and knew that anyone could attain the suprasensory facconsciousness from its conditioning to become a true, free organ for ulties he had achieved. The “Kali Yuga” was over; a new age of spiritual the cognition of spiritual realities. In other words, he became a meditaconsciousness was dawning; humanity was passing over the threshold tion teacher. Exercises and practices, all of which he practiced, flowed into the invisible world. It was Rudolf Steiner’s task to help the age from him. His students had to accustom themselves to daily meditanow unfolding to achieve spiritual knowledge for itself. Contemplative cognitive transformation — meditation — became principal focus of his tion. For a regular, fixed period, they tried to permeate their whole organism with a deep reverence, inner peace, and silence. This was the work on all fronts. first stage: reverent, peaceful waiting gradually taking the place of the Steiner is, in fact, always teaching meditation. The form of his books usual inner babble and outer sensations. Then some spiritual “idea” in and lectures, even when not explicitly teaching meditation, is always the form of a sentence or image was placed in the center of consciousmeditative, that is, bearing the fruits of meditation and potentially ness — usually paradoxical in the sense that its logic or form could not productive of meditation on the reader’s part. The living flow of be thought by the brain or experienced by the organically conditioned consciousness — the way in which ideas, feelings, and intentions interacfeelings. The purpose was not to understand the idea (image or feeltively unfold, forming a sequence of images often misread as “content” ing), but to let it come to life within in a special way. As Steiner wrote or “information” as their trace or fringe — as well as the mantric qualto a student in 1904: ity of individual sentences and even paragraphs, bears witness to this. But besides teaching meditation, as it were, by example in this way, a We must learn to submit to it totally, allowing all its power to significant portion — more than is usually recognized; indeed, probably radiate within us. We must learn to love it. If we think we have a third of his work — is primarily meditative in intention. understood it, this simply means the time has come to let it shine Broadly speaking, this meditative work falls into several different within us again. Our intellectual understanding is not the point. forms, all of which are continuous with his teaching career. The point is to love its inner truth. The more we love such inner truths, and feel this love streaming through us, the more the power 1. 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In a way, that, too, is how Rudolf Steiner expected us to read his works. to achieve his level of clairvoyance must, in the absence of a guru, be Besides such explicit meditation practice, Steiner considered other accompanied by the careful, conscious “mental” development of thinking: exercises equally important, all of which worked in different ways to “the development of a stage of consciousness that consists of inwardly free the soul from the dominance of the physical and psychic organism contemplative insight.” As preparation for this, Steiner naturally recomand nurture its cognitive, perceptive organs and faculties. Chief among mends the study of the German idealists Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. these exercises are the six so-called “supplementary (or complementary)” Steiner’s point, as we have seen, is that spiritual research in the West exercises, each of which in different ways both overcomes the automamust begin with thinking, “ordinary” thinking. The only healthy way to clairvoyant cognition is through the enlivening of ordinary thinking tisms to which we are all conditioned and, in doing so, reveals a new through practices of meditative attention and concentration. There is ability of the heart in the face of life. The six are 1) control of thinkno “leap” to higher psychic or spiritual levels without it: ing; 2) control of action (will); 3) equanimity, or control of feeling; 4) impartiality (open-mindedness, trust, forbearance); 5) trust (continual Thought is the same on all planes. Whenever thought is developenness toward life); and 6) inner harmony. To these should be added oped — whether on the physical or on a higher plane — it will the so-called backward review, or retrospect, which strengthens the be a guide in everything if it is free from the senses and grasped soul’s capacity to live in memory and gradually creates an “organ” capain “I” consciousness. If it is first developed on the physical levble of body-free cognition of the astral world. el — according to present Western brain Many of these teachings were given orally, formation — it will then continue to be while the foundations were laid down in piritual research in the West a reliable guide throughout all stages of the books. Early Anthroposophists who sensory and suprasensory knowledge. If followed Rudolf Steiner lived in a world must begin with thinking, this is missing, Westerners wander about permeated at every level by the ideal of “ordinary” thinking. The only healthy without a rudder, whether they are movspiritual practice or meditative thinking ing on the physical or a higher plane. At leading to selfless action. As from the very way to clairvoyant cognition the present time, when all human higher beginning, the essence, or fundamental is through the enlivening of framework, remained thinking. For Rudolf powers are so closely linked with the ordinary thinking through practices Steiner, living, brain-free thinking necespowers belonging to the lower levels of sarily constituted the only healthy basis for the sexual realm, a slip such as Mr. Leadof meditative attention and spiritual practice in our time. beater’s can occur at any time. . . . With concentration. Besides such thinking and the practices good foresight into the peculiarities of of concentration, attention, and absorpour fifth cultural epoch, the masters of tion upon which it depends, other faculthe Rosicrucian school have elaborated the ties and practices were of paramount importance. It is worth listing “path” that is the only one appropriate for a Western person in the them, for each is a meditation in itself. In no particular order, these current cycle of development. practices enhanced and transformed basic cognitive thinking: a mood Clearly, it was thus only a matter of time and the right circumstances of reverence, or devotion; a purified openness of heart and soul, made until Rudolf Steiner would practice what he was saying and establish habitual; the practice of inner silence, or emptiness; learning to think with pictures or images (feelings), building them up, holding them, and “Western” Theosophy on a true Christian, Rosicrucian footing. The opportunity came the following year. The president of the allowing them to fill one’s consciousness; developing the inner qualities of patience, steadfastness, trust, and solidarity with all beings; strength- Theosophical Society, H. S. Olcott, died, and a successor had to be elected. Annie Besant was the natural candidate. The election, ening the memory. however, became a messy business when, to Steiner’s great distaste and ••••• embarrassment, the mahatmas (“Masters”) were invoked to stump for Besant. Rudolf Steiner objected to the introduction of spiritual The years 1912 and 1913, when Rudolf Steiner wrote the two beings into the election process and to the fact that the head of the remarkable short meditative works on spiritual development collected Esoteric Section would also become the president — two roles he in this volume, were critical both for the world and for the development considered incompatible. Steiner and the German Section nevertheless of Anthroposophy. World War I had already cast its shadow across the supported Besant’s successful candidacy. Shortly thereafter, at the wellspiritual horizon. Seemingly unconnected, the Theosophical Movement documented Munich Congress, Steiner’s Anthroposophical-Rosicrucian was likewise beset with turmoil and fatally destructive emotion. Theosophy showed its true colors for the first time. Because of these One way or another, the immediate source of the turmoil (and two realities — one political, the other spiritual — Besant gracefully the present books) lie in the phenomenon of Charles Leadbeater acknowledged both her own incompetence with regard to esoteric (1854–1934), the prominent Theosophical author, clergyman, and Christianity and Steiner’s primacy in this area and gave him permission accomplished clairvoyant. In 1906, Leadbeater was forced to resign to form a school along his own lines. from the Theosophical Society because of sexual misconduct with Leadbeater’s karma, however, was by no means exhausted. He began young boys. For Steiner, Leadbeater’s lapse was a consequence of his to foment the idea of a “coming teacher” or “bodhisattva being” — a “methods of spiritual research,” which, though perhaps leading to true insights, were “dangerous and apt to mislead.” Steiner wrote, “The case “second coming” of Christ physically. In April 1909, he discovered such a person in the fourteen-year-old Jiddu Krishnamurti. Over the next of Leadbeater came as no surprise to me.” years, Krishnamurti — around whom an international movement called In a letter to Annie Besant, Steiner went further, stating that such “The Star in the East” was formed — gradually became the central “occult methods necessarily lead in certain cases to this or other mistakes focus of Theosophical activity. For Rudolf Steiner, this was false and similar to those evinced in Mr. Leadbeater’s case.” Not unexpectedly, it was Steiner’s view that the “psychic” methods undertaken by Leadbeater contradicted the very meaning of the Christ.

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Throughout the year 1912, The Star in the East gained strength and membership, and opposition to Rudolf Steiner increased. Accusations, harsh words, fantastic assertions began to circulate, including claims that Steiner was a Jesuit! It became clear to Steiner that he would have to eventually separate himself from Theosophy. By the end of 1911, an association was formed for this eventuality. In August 1912, Steiner proposed a new organization to be called the “Anthroposophical Society.” December 8, the council of the German Section took the decision that members could no longer belong to the Order of the Star in the East and remain in good standing in the society. Committed members of the Star in the East were asked to leave the Theosophical Society. If they refused, they were to be expelled. At the same time, Annie Besant’s behavior was considered a betrayal of the fundamental Theosophical principle: “No knowledge higher than the Truth.” Accordingly, on December 11, a telegram was sent to request her resignation. The die was cast. On December 28, without further celebration or formality, the “Anthroposophical Society” was founded in Cologne. In 1913, therefore, Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy finally shucked the last vestiges of the Theosophical “womb” and stood on their own. On January 2 and 3, they held the General Meeting for the Founding of the Anthroposophical Society. Members and friends from many countries gathered to give a new form to the spiritual community for which Rudolf Steiner had worked during the previous eleven years. On January 14, Annie Besant mailed a letter revoking the foundation document of the German society, thereby formalizing the separation. On February 2 and 3, the matter was concluded with the first, constitutive general meeting of the Anthroposophical Society. Rudolf Steiner had held on as long as humanly possible. It had been, as he said, “a martyrdom.” Now he had no choice. The intense personal vilification only clarified the complete divergence between what he stood for and what emanated from the Theosophical headquarters in Adyar, India. As the meeting began, he declared openly the fundamental differences in spiritual orientation, in their concepts of the Christ, and in esoteric methodology. Mrs. Besant’s letter was read, and after some discussion the new council of the Anthroposophical Society established the definitive break. In conclusion, Rudolf Steiner stated: “The German Section, as this has existed from its founding, has hereby ended its existence, and all the functions of the German Section have thus come to an end.” Next morning, February 3, Rudolf opened the general meeting by saying, “May I call your attention to the fact that we now stand at the beginning, not of new work, but of a significant endeavor to consolidate and expand. . . . I hope that we shall find the ways and means to represent more strongly and more devotedly what we fostered in the old form.” ••••• If we take 1907, the year of the Munich Congress and Besant’s blessing on Steiner’s going his own way in path and method, as the turning point, the first published intimations of what this might mean in practice may be found in An Outline of Esoteric Science — whose chapter on inner development resumes and transforms in a more explicit “Rosicrucian” direction all we have discussed so far — and in the four mystery dramas. It is in this context that two works published here must be considered.

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A Way to Self-Knowledge, written in July and August 1912, while Rudolf Steiner was finishing his third mystery drama, The Guardian of the Threshold (with which perhaps it should be read), outlines the path by which, through meditative thinking, an individual can approach and cross over the threshold of the spiritual world. It takes the form of eight meditations. Where Theosophy and An Outline of Esoteric Science described the phenomena of the spiritual world, the procedure here is different. Steiner writes that one should regard the present volume as a “report of soul experiences.” Inwardly following these experiences, however, will not necessarily lead to a “repetition” of them. Each person’s experience will be different, “corresponding to the individual nature of one’s own soul.” The goal is an inner, meditative conversation with the text, which, always individual, is written in such a way that it may be meditated sentence by sentence. Read in this way, it will become “a journey of the soul that truly leads to vision of the spiritual world.” It is a “report” of soul experience that can become one’s own, if it is made one’s own. The starting-point is sober, concentrated, meditative thinking. A healthy soul, Steiner writes (and we may imagine he has the case of Leadbeater before him), will always start with such thinking. Indicating it was still an issue, he writes in his 1918 afterword: “Among the soul functions of normal consciousness, only thinking can free itself from perception and lead to independent activity unconditioned by abnormal, bodily processes. Clairvoyant vision, as I use the term, does not sink below thinking into deeper organic processes; rather it rises to realms that begin with thinking when thinking is inwardly illuminated by the soul and controlled by the will. From such self-controlled thinking, the soul develops clairvoyant vision as it is meant here. Thinking is the paradigm for vision.” The path of concentrated meditative attention that Steiner outlines begins with a consideration of the physical body, which is essentially a meditation on death. Such meditations exist in all traditions and are a means of purifying the mind in order to gain an insight into the meaning of life, its precariousness, and its enormous gifts. Mindfulness of death is, in many ways, the prerequisite for all spiritual work. The approach through thinking is especially interesting, for (as Steiner puts it) thinking allows “the event of death to arise in the soul in a way that is without desire or personal interest.” At the same time, contemplating the autonomy of the physical body within nature allows one to forget oneself and experience one’s body as part of the outer world. Such meditation prepares one to move — always enhancing and transforming thinking — into the elemental, or etheric, world, and thence to encountering the Guardian of the Threshold. The meditations then lead one into the astral and “I” worlds and conclude with two more general meditative exercises. The Threshold of the Spiritual World was written during two weeks in June in Berlin while Steiner prepared the fourth mystery drama, The Souls’ Awakening. Here, he continues the process begun with A Way of Self-Knowledge, but in a freer, less systematic, and more aphoristic form, as “a few descriptions of spiritual experiences.” Though Steiner speaks humbly and self-deprecatingly of this work, it is nevertheless a marvel of richness and insight. Small in size, short in chapters, known, as it were, in content, when read with the meditative, attentive care it deserves, this work is nearly infinite in depth and extent and striking in its wisdom and newness. Few books by Rudolf Steiner give a clearer sense of his being as a teacher. At the same time, it epitomizes his teaching. •••••

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The Other Steiner: Snapshots of Rudolf Steiner Translated by Mado Spiegler

Warm Baritone Voice Walter Abendroth A BENDROTH, a composer and

respected musical critic, was active W in Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg, where ALTER

he became the editor of the periodical Allgemeinen Musikzeitung from 1948 to 1955. Before the World War I, he came into contact with anthroposophists in Munich and met Rudolf Steiner. He was active in the anthroposophical movement as composer and eurythmy accompanist, although after Steiner’s death he completely withdrew.

Society. It started with the naïve arrogance directed at non-anthroposophists, often based on profound ignorance; it rose to downright meanness in the spiteful rivalries between the stars of eurythmy, and culminated in the malevolent vanity of some beautiful souls who even resented Frau Steiner’s access to the Doktor, ending with ridiculous jealousies about any imagined preference by the Master. Even the simple fact that, one day, Rudolf Steiner walked with me to the barbershop attracted sidelong glances that were clearly meant to suggest I better not put on airs. Which I really didn’t. Much rather, I hid from myself the sadness and shame about this kind of following. As time went on, I became more and more aware of the wall of incomprehension that existed between Rudolf Steiner and his “dear anthroposophical friends” and how deeply isolated he was in his wishes and actions as a “Teacher.”

Fireworks of Sharp Invectives

A Russian who had then lived in Berlin brought Rudolf Steiner to his attention: He suggested that we go to one of Steiner’s public lectures at the Architektenhaus, and that I should feel free to pour my heart out “to the Herr Doktor” — no doubt he would know what I should do or let go of. Which is exactly what happened. The lecture — I don’t recall the theme — reinforced my feeling that here and nowhere else I was on the path toward true self-knowledge and knowledge of the world — from which I would never deviate. Rudolf Steiner’s personality gave the immediate impression of standing before an extraordinary being, one absolutely singular in our time. There emanated from him a radiance of intellectual power and truthfulness, integrity and goodness. This translated into immediate trust on the part of the recipient of his attention. The man would immediately have stood out of any crowd for anyone with the least intuition for the unusual. It was partly his external appearance — the slender silhouette, the springy step, the remarkable eagle-like tilt of the head with the wonderfully formed brow under black hair that was combed-back, the bold profile, the small mouth, the changeable expression of the deep brown eyes that he kept alternately closed and opened wide while he spoke, the slender, remarkably mobile, fine hands, and the well-modulated, warm baritone. But even more than all that, there was the almost indescribable feeling of unity between the physical and the spiritual, of a kind that one will not encounter again with such a fascinatingly impressive power coupled with a complete absence of self-promotion. In those days, I was naïve enough to present him with my concerns at the end of the lecture. Steiner heard me out patiently, although besieged by a crowd of people, all of whom had come presumably with a similar desire to consult him. When I stopped talking, he looked at me in friendly fashion and only said in his quiet Austrian intonation “wait three more years.” I felt as if I had heard an oracle. Yet it was surely “just” reasonable, somewhat fatherly advice—but naturally from a man who was able to read more in the signs of his time than others did. Abendroth also experienced many of the shadowy sides of Steiner’s followers: the oft-lamented insufferableness of anthroposophists. Despite all the industriousness of the Stuttgart (group) it was impossible to hide how much backbiting there was in the Anthroposophical

Friedrich Eckstein ECKSTEIN was born the same year as Steiner. He was

a Viennese chemist, parchment maker, private student of Anton FBruckner, and also a self-taught student of literature and philosoRIEDRICH

phy (among others he wrote studies on Kant, Hermann Cohen, and Comenius). He’d had a lifelong interest in esotericism of all periods and in music theory and took many trips — including to Armenia, to the U.S. (1893), England, and Italy. His house was the site of regular meetings of Viennese writers of the turn of the century. Eckstein was the patron of the composers Bruckner and Hugo Wolf and administrator of their legacies. He had contacts with Wagner, Lizt and the Bayreuth circle. His circle of friends included Peter Altenberg, Hermann Bahr, Richard Rudolf Steiner, 1891 Beer-Hoffmann, Helena Blavatsky, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Christian von Ehrenfels, Sigmund Freud, Karl Kraus, Marie Lang, Ernst Mach, Gustav Mahler, Rosa Mayreder, Gustav Meyrink, Robert Musil, Arthur Schnitzler, Mark Twain, Franz Werfel and Bruno Walter. This polymath, whom Steiner, in his Autobiography, called “the distinguished scholar of ancient knowledge,” had his regular seat at the literary Café Griensteidl and, later, at the Café Imperial. In 1886, Eckstein became the president of the Vienna lodge of the Theosophical Society. After the early 1890s, he “became a layman again.” He introduced Rudolf Steiner to traditional esoterism. Shortly before Steiner’s death in 1925, Eckstein sent him an inscribed copy of his Memories of Anton Bruckner. As a Jew, Eckstein had witnessed the entrance of Hitler’s armies into Vienna a year before his death. How many hours of precious peace and deep West-Eastern meditation I owe to the old Viennese coffee house; how many valuable acquaintances I made there; how many friendly connections were established! In those days, there was no noisy din in the cafés, no beer, no wine, no smells of food; the subtle fragrance of freshly roasted coffee and of the Turkish tobacco, smoked by many of the

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guests in long pipes, wafted evenly through all the rooms! Not a loud word was allowed to disturb the readers’ peace; there were no women visitors; ladies considered it unseemly to go to the café. The first time I entered the Café Griensteidl, in 1878 in St Michael’s Square, I was immediately captivated by the comfortable tranquil respectability that reigned there and thus started several decades of visiting this local almost every day. Since I had first been taken to the café by my acquaintances in the nearby vegetarian restaurant, I found there from the start a circle of like-minded spirits that included a number of significant individuals. At the large, round white marble table in the middle of the large reading room, the old waiter Franz, with the countenance of a condescendingly polite high-society valet, brought each guest his coffee and his preferred newspaper. The poet Ludwig Anzengruber appeared everyday surrounded by his entourage from the Wiener Figaro; the artist Ernst Juch, the editor Carl Sitter and the humorist Maseidek. . . . In the window niche on the right, where I regularly met my own friends, one could see almost everyday Dr. Viktor Adler the famous social democrat, the politician Engelbert Pernerstorfer, the writer Siegfried Lipiner —so appreciated by Nietzsche, the historian Dr. Heinrich Friedjung, the lawyer Dr. Richard Ulbing and the correspondents of several foreign newspapers. Occasionally Hugo Wolf would come, who in those days was not yet known as the composer of lieder. In the early 80s Anzengruber and his friends disappeared from the Café and new figures replaced him’ Dr. Viktor Adler had gone to Berlin for a while. One day, Hugo Wolf, laughing happily, brought a young friend (the writer Hermann Bahr) whose hail-fellow-well-met joviality attracted my attention. He was of middle height, beardless except for a thin mustache, and a bowl cut lent his face something martial that didn’t quite match his otherwise kindly air and mischievous smile. . . .

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Griensteidl circle. He and Hermann Bahr were always at loggerheads, and it was fun for the rest of us to listen to the two as they went head-to-head, exchanging fireworks of burning invectives. “Rudolf Steiner is unworthy of following my thought,” Bahr once declared, “for he is completely encrusted in outdated, primitive ideas.” “On the contrary!” Rudolf Steiner shot back “ Nothing is easier for me! All I need to do is place myself back into the time when I had not yet learned anything.” Resounding laughter greeted this verbal dueling, and one can easily imagine Bahr’s sharp response to his opponent, given how wittily he handled all ideas.

Red Children’s Ballons by Joseph Rolletschek G ERMAN-CZECH painter Josef Rolletschek, writing under the

pseudonym Joseph Rollet was one of Steiner’s acquaintances in TWeimar. HE

Let me say right away: I am neither a Theosophist nor an Anthroposophist, and my “memories” very well might somewhat disappoint the followers of the late master. On the other hand, it could be of interest for them to learn of the purely human traits of their great leader from a time when Rudolf Steiner was not yet thinking of becoming one day the messiah of a new faith. ith his knee-length

black wool coat, the

buttoned vest, the black Lavaliere bow tie and the very old-fashioned “soft” top

The time is Weimar at the beginning of the 1890s. Called to Weimar by Professor Suphan, then director of the Schiller-Goethe archive, Steiner had edited Goethe’s scientific writings. . . .

Outwardly in those days, Steiner already held hat, he looked altogether Around that time, too, there appeared in something of a daemonic fascination. Out our circle a completely beardless, pale young like an undernourished of his thin, well-formed face, whose features man, very slender, with long, dark hair. Sharp theology student. His name were strikingly reminiscent of the poet Robert glasses gave his look something piercing. With Hamerling, two unnaturally large, very dark his knee-length black wool coat, the buttoned was Rudolf Steiner. eyes, shone with a curious light. I never again vest, the black Lavaliere bow tie and the very saw such eyes. The thin lips were shadowed by old-fashioned “soft” top hat, he looked altoa thin moustache; thick black hair combed back gether like an undernourished theology student. His name was from the large, round forehead, from which occasionally a disobeRudolf Steiner. I had often met him earlier in the company of the dient strand would fall over his face. He was always dressed in famous Goethe scholar, Prof. Karl-Julius Schröer, and we had had black, with a flowing Byron tie. When he walked, even in the heat many vigorous debates about Goethe’s symbolism. Meanwhile, he of summer, he used to stick the finger of his crossed hands in his had heard somehow that I was in touch with the much-hallowed sleeves, as if he were cold. When he and his friend and colleague Madame Blavatsky and leading members of the Theosophic society Dr. Fresenius would walk through the respectably quiet streets of in Madras. the town, it was an image one could hardly miss: Steiner, whose Steiner explained to me how much he wanted to learn about these silhouette with the slender clothes looked taller than he was; his things, and asked me to initiate him in the “secret doctrine.” This black-hatted head tilted back, the eyes looking up searchingly; and was the beginning of regular meetings with him, which went on Fresenius, short, with a full white beard and his head tilted toward for many years and eventually led (after many transformations and the ground. Thus. they would stroll by, slowly, solemnly, and measetbacks) to the development of his anthroposophic system. He suredly, followed by the amused gaze of passersby. didn’t encounter much of an echo among the other habitués of the

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Since he and I were compatriots, we soon became acquainted and became friends. He had, like no one else, a talent for listening to and showing interest in what one was saying. This of course is the precondition of any friendship. In the evening we would go to the Oberdorster Café on Schillerstrasse, and Steiner always had fun calling out to the waiter with a piercing look and dead-serious manner “Waiter, bring me a casus belli,” and every time, he had to explain to the dumbfounded Ganymede that he meant a Thuringian cheese. Then we would often sit facing each other in silence, until at some advanced hour Steiner would start declaiming, “Dort unten an dem fernen Nil, dort haust ein kleines Krokodil” (There, beneath the distant Nile,/There dwells a little crocodile). Steiner was generally unimpressed by my opinions at the time about women and love, and it often led to sinister prophecies on his part. In his memoirs, he says of these conversations that “R[olletschek] could be simultaneously cynical and sentimental.” In reality we never experienced any real discord, usually each evening resuming the previous day’s conversation on a more moderate tone.

and Anna Eunike’s long relationship and eventual marriage is disproved by evidence]. I once visited the couple in Lichterfelde. I had a hard time keeping a straight face. Steiner had renounced alcohol, and there was only cocoa to be had in the house. His conversation, too, seemed to be marked by a certain forced respectability. Then we lost sight of each other until Steiner gave his first theosophical lecture in Weimar (April 14, 1903). Of course I went — if nothing else, out of curiosity. What I heard there all sounded so unbelievable, so extremely remote and lofty. Also, the formalism of some of his statements and the length of the lecture annoyed me. When we met later at the artist’s association (Schlaraffia), I called out to him, seated in the circle of mutual acquaintances: “You know, Steiner, my only consolation is knowing that you yourself didn’t believe a single word of what you said.” In retrospect, I felt bad about my snottiness. After that we only met once or twice more. Rudolf Steiner made his way, and what I heard over the years confirmed me in the belief that my old prophecy had come to pass after all! Just one short story as a testimony of the infinite respect that his followers had for the master: Three or four years ago, returning from a long trip I was crossing the now-busy Schillerstrasse. For a while, I had the feeling that someone was following me and casting sidelong glances in my direction. Finally I turned around and saw a man I knew well. “Oh, good morning Herr N.,” I said, and I reached out my hand. Hesitatingly, and with a very unusual kind of respect, he took my right hand and stuttering with emotion whispered, “Excuse me, Herr Rolletschek. I was in Vienna recently and had the honor of being introduced to our great teacher; and when he heard I came from Weimar, Rudolf Steiner told me “Ah Weimar! Is my old friend Rolletschek still there? Is it really possible — the voice quivered even more — he called you his friend and told me to give his greetings.”

Rudolf Steiner, oil by Joseph Rolletschek, Weimar ca. 1894

Then summer came — my first Weimar summer, and the evening walks with Steiner. I have the most vivid memories of Sunday afternoons. It was birdshooting season. On a meadow near the “Webicht” by the Jena railroad line, we were lying in the grass, listening to the muffled sounds of music and the noise from the stands at the nearby shooting gallery. Red children’s balloons rose behind the railroad embankment. Steiner was lying in the grass, his arms crossed under his head, uttering deep philosophical statements.To tell the truth, I never quite understood them. His eyes shone as he gazed at the children’s balloons until they disappeared in the blue sky. During the summer months of the next year, Otto Erich Hartleben spent a certain amount of time in Weimar to publish a selection of Goethe’s poems. Every evening, we sat on the glassed terrace of the Chemnitius Hotel, and Hartleben told us his first Serenisssimus jokes. Then he and Steiner would start talking philosophy, and every time the same thing happened: the more advanced the hour and the more clouded Otto Erich’s forehead became, the more irrelevant his declarations, while Steiner quietly and concretely took the lead.

Perhaps it was for financial reasons that Steiner moved away from Weimar to take on the direction of the Magazin für Literatur in Berlin. We saw each other rarely, and what I heard through other people wasn’t exactly pleasant. He was not well. He earned five to ten Marks an evening for lectures in small east Prussian towns. The news made me downright sad — I had always prophesied a great future for him! In the magazine office, things had reached such a pitch of artistic chaos that he no longer knew where to turn, and one day we heard that he had written to his former landlady in Weimar, begging her to come to Berlin and help order his affairs. She was a handsome widow, a few years older than he, and she immediately wrote back saying she would come, provided he marry her! He accepted. Frau Eunike sold her property in Weimar, moved to Berlin and become his wife [Note: Rolletschek’s version of Steiner

“Ah Steiner!” Lighthearted memories from the 1890s rose in me. “Do I ever know Steiner! How often we got drunk together.” My acquaintance blanched, and without a farewell he disappeared in the direction of the park.

Representative of all humanity Ralph Courtney COURTNEY spent his school years in London (St. Paul

School) and Oxford (Brasenose College). His mother became R a student and friend of Rudolf Steiner. After his law studies, he ALPH

worked initially for publishing houses before becoming a correspondent for American newspapers (Associated Press, AP). He was the first Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune in Paris and became acquainted with many leading European politicians. He returned to the U.S. after the war, joined the Anthroposophical Society in America in 1923, founded the Threefold Group, and supported biodynamic agriculture. On the occasion of Rudolf Steiner’s one

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intellectual. He always wore the same kind of black suit, its only distinction a hardly noticeable large cravat of wide silk ribbon of the same color. His thin ascetic face often bore a I first met Rudolf Steiner in Paris. I was no longer a pubsilent, benevolent smile, especially when he greeted you. On lishing agent, but worked in the offices of Associated Press. the upper lip, a thin youthful moustache looked very good on My boss was Elmer Roberts. I once mentioned Rudolf him and kept within bounds, like the combed back hair. The direct, lively eyes always expressed friendly helpfulness. Steiner in a conversation, whereupon he opened a drawer No matter when one came, one was never unwelcome. filled of anthroposophic books. Roberts had previously The large desk at the window was always loaded with piles worked for associated press in Berlin and had become a Ralph Courtney of books and papers. The only free space was right in front student of Rudolf Steiner there. Not long after we had of the seat, for a writing pad. And there he was. Before we discovered our shared interest, we heard that Steiner would entered, he had already stood up. It didn’t seem to disturb him to intercome through Paris on the way back from London. Roberts knew rupt the current work in order to be completely at the visitor’s disposal. Eugene Levy, with whom Steiner was staying. We posted ourselves He never gave any sign of feeling inconvenienced, whether through a in front of the house to meet Steiner, and when he arrived he remark, a gesture, or some impatience. He was happy to listen to the looked tired, very tired. I was introduced to Mme. Bellecroix, the account of a young person’s feelings, wishes, nostalgia, what he was leader of the Paris group, and at my request I was asked to come for and wanted to be. If one as much as mentioned a poet’s name, whether an interview the next day. Right after this conversation I became a long dead or alive, or the title of a work, he wanted to know what member of the Paris group. . . . impression it had made. But he never corrected an expressed opinion. People who didn’t have the good fortune of meeting Rudolf Steiner The woman, the daughter—I still didn’t know for sure who they were, how they were related to him. I thus could not always want to know what sort of impression he address them directly which made me somewhat made as a person. To tell the truth, I would have e was to some embarrassed. Like him, they were open and lovto say that I had no impression of what one extent universality ably friendly. One could not necessarily take for would call “personality.” People want to know granted a spousal relationship. Their behavior was itself. It was enough for whether he was friendly or serious or forceful so reserved, so measured in length, width, and or whatever. The impressions I had would not me that he should exist, height, well tempered and balanced. The two sides fit into these words. I know that others experiof the scale were always even. which meant that I myself enced him like that, but for me Steiner simply As before, the coffee machine came out. Since I was! He was to some extent universality itself. It existed, and I felt only could not figure out how it was heated, I asked if was enough for me that he should exist, which that I loved him. it used charcoal. No, no, laughed Rudolf Steiner, meant that I myself existed, and I felt only that who always sat at the narrow send of the table by I loved him. the window, right next to his working seat: charcoal is fog, spirits is spirit. Excited, I told him that, at the state library, there was an inspiring inscription in gold lettering: “Nourishment for the Memories of Rudolf Steiner spirit” (Nutrimentum Spiriti), which Berliners had translated, “Spirits are food, too.” He laughed happily “That’s Berliners for you!” Then he By Alwin Albert Rudolph described the Viennese in a few words. Briskly, the woman went and fetched a cloth doll that was standing Memoirs of Rudolf Steiner and his Activities at the Berlin Workers’ School 1899–1904 on a side table. The thing had attracted my eye before, since I could not make it out or interpret it, but it seemed unique in its way. In the by Johanna Mücke & Alwin Alfred Rudolph light of the ceiling lamp, I could see that it was a masterly portrait of Rudolf Steiner. The woman lifted the seam of the black coat, and I saw NTIL THEN, I had never had as friendly a reception as at his house. a bottle. This, she explained, is a present from Dr. Jacobowski—a bottle I had met many people who had to be won over as teachers or of French cognac and it means “The whole body is spirit.” lecturers. All of them close to us politically, men or women for whom I had read Darwin; those were the days of naturalism. I had studied we worked long days and long nights for political demonstrations and elections. Yet they were always surrounded by an aura of sour coolness, Marx and his interpreters Kautsky, Büchner, as well as Albert Lange’s and their handshake felt like the paw of a trained dog. Rudolf Steiner, History of Materialism. “The whole body is spirit.” This was something else; this was Dr. Rudolf Steiner. the woman, and her daughter were surrounded by a feeling of hearty

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Esoteric Lessons, 1904–1909 Introduction* by Christopher Bamford “BERLIN LODGE”

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Star in the East. After the separation of the German Section (Anthroposophy) from the Theosophical Society, he became the general secretary of the new German Section. • • •

The German Section of the existed in Germany since 1894. Theosophical Society was There had been several leaders. founded October 20, 1902, with In 1900, when Steiner began Rudolf Steiner as general secreto lecture, its leader was Dr. tary and Marie von Sivers as secWilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden retary. During the proceedings, (1846–1916), who lived in Steiner asked Annie Besant, who Hanover. Steiner’s connection, had traveled to Berlin to bestow Count Brockdorff, lived in the Charter, to enroll him as a Berlin, was secretary, and led member of the “esoteric school.” the Lodge there. There lie the material origins of Hübbe-Schleiden, a force this volume. to reckon with, had a rather The origin of the esoteric checkered history. After school date back at least to receiving a law degree from 1884, when certain members of the London Leipzig University in 1869, he moved to Lonlodge “petitioned the Masters for the formadon, where he worked first for a large business tion of an inner group” for deeper esoteric and then for the German Consul. From Lontraining. Following that initial call for experidon, he traveled to Africa (1875), where he ence rather than theory, the number of Theoperated a lucrative business in Gabon until osophists seeking to become chelas—practica scandal appeared to implicate him in the murder of two men who had robbed the com- ing “disciples,” rather than simply “students” pany. To avoid criminal charges, he returned to of the doctrines—increased until, in 1888, in Germany, where he became active in the grow- response to the demand, the esoteric school ing colonialist movement. In 1884, however, was founded. The announcement, which he experienced a physical and spiritual crisis, appeared on the last page of the October issue which led to his conversion to Theosophy of Lucifer (vol. 3) read: Owing to the fact that a large number of and a meeting with Madame Blavatsky. With fellows of the society have felt the need her blessing, he established the Theosophical to form a body of esoteric students, to Society in Germany and began to publish The be organized on the original lines and Sphinx (1886–1895), a Theosophical organ devised by the real founders of the T. S., that soon provided a vehicle for the revival of the following order has been issued by the occultism in Germany. founding president: Steiner considered Hübbe-Schleiden to be the leading candidate to be the first general I. To promote the esoteric interests of secretary of the German Section. Hübbethe Theosophical Society by the deeper study of esoteric philosophy, there is Schleiden declined the offer, however, thus hereby organized a body to be known as allowing Steiner to assume the post. Hübbethe “Esoteric Section of the TheosophiSchleiden nevertheless continued to serve on cal Society.” the executive committee in 1902 and 1903. Since he had belonged to the Esoteric Section II. The constitution and sole direction of in London, he took part in Steiner’s esoteric the same is vested in Madame H. P. Blaclasses, thus taking in some sense Rudolf vatsky, as its head; she is solely responSteiner as his teacher. In 1911, however, he sible to the members of results; and the openly took Annie Besant’s side in the Krishsection as no official or corporate connection with the Exoteric Society, save in the namurti affair and became the German repperson of the founding president. resentative of the related organization, The *

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and the Masters, “the real founders of the T. S.” The section’s leadership continued under Blavatsky until her death in 1891, following which Annie Besant assumed the leadership. Initially she shared it with William Q. Judge, but after his death in 1895 she led it alone. For Steiner, the direct connection to Blavatsky and the Masters was primary. Preservation of continuity was the cardinal rule. He did so, as Hella Wiesberger put it, by outwardly “linking in every case to an already existing situation and seeking to transform it into something more perfect.” Both the history of Steiner’s involvement with the esoteric school and the foundational teachings he gave are documented in From the History and Contents of the Esoteric School 1904– 1914 (cw 264). We learn there that almost from the beginning of the German Section, he was asked for esoteric instruction, although it was not until, while visiting Anne Besant in London in May 1904, that she officially named him “Arch Warden” of the esoteric school, officially “authorizing” him to teach. It is also clear that from the beginning, Rudolf Steiner realized (as he writes in a letter to Marie von Sivers in April 1903) that “without a body of true Theosophists to improve the karma of the present by hard-working meditation, theosophical teachings would be expounded merely to half-deaf ears.” Conflating several examples, the rules of the school, in the form that Rudolf Steiner gave them, were more or less as follows: 1.

Every morning, rise at a fixed time and, preferably before eating, sit for a half-hour period of meditation. For instance: first, inner control, silence, peace; then, a sense of devotion to the divine in the universe, coupled with the inner understanding that one is united with it, to which end the following is held in the heart and allowed to penetrate one: More radiant than the Sun, Purer than the snow, Finer than the ether, Is the Self, The Spirit in my heart. This Self am I. I am this Self. Concluding, one concentrates on a sentence: such as, “Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears. Finally: a mood of reverence

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to establish began in tiny circles and against opposition from some existing Theosophical branches. Yet he moved forward confidently, always feeling support from above. As he wrote to Hübbe-Schleiden: �I know that much of what I do goes against the inclinations of many older members, who do not understand me as well as you and with whom I cannot speak as I do with you. But I know and am convinced that I must not let myself be led astray by such outer considerations. I feel and know myself to be under sure guidance.” Notwithstanding such humble and even difficult beginnings, therefore, Steiner’s goal was always no less than the cultural and spiritual renewal of the West. He believed that “the movement that H. P. B. and A. Besant began can move beyond H. P. Blavatsky and Annie Besant.” To this end, he worked tirelessly and, above all, strategically. In 1903, he began the journal Luzifer, which became Lucifer-Gnosis after 1904. It became the most important vehicle for the dissemination of his teaching and waswidely read. He also began to write books (Theosophy, begun 1903, and How to Know Higher Worlds, 1904–1905) that would serve as vehicles for his fundamental teaching. Economically, however, his circumstances remained constrained. He never drew as salary as general secretary and still had to work as a teacher in a girls’ school to make ends meet. Ten branches, or “lodges,” entered the German Section: Berlin, Charlottenburg, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Kassel, Lugarno, Munich, Leipzig, and Stuttgart. Added to these was Weimar, and others would be added in the following years. Yet to begin with the membership numbers remained small. Membership at the time of the first general meeting (October, 1903) was only 130. By 1904, when the Esoteric Section officially began, membership had increased to 251, still a small number. By 1909 (when this volume concludes), membership had reached 1500 (still not terribly large) with forty-four branches. All of which is to say that the Esoteric Section would always have been very small, and less than ten people would have attended many of the lessons recorded here. In spiritual work, however, numbers are not especially important. • • •

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B ERLIN , F EBRUARY 15, 1904 N WESTERN CULTURES spiritual development

I must begin primarily with the so-called con-

trol of thought. Although western thinking, which is entirely unordered and highly arbitrary, is not at all suitable for developing controlled thought, that is, thinking that follows a strict logical succession, nevertheless this is what is necessary as a first step. Here I would like to return to something that I have already spoken of: we must develop sensitivity for perceiving illogical, badly controlled trains of thought. Ordinary human beings will experience a kind of pain every time their senses are strongly stimulated. However, those people are very rare who are sensitive to uncontrolled, inconsistent thinking and experience it as pain. And yet this is a step that everyone must take, and not only with regard to thinking, but also with respect to reading our western literature. I do not except a large number of books found in our theosophical literature. There you will also find many uncontrolled thoughts. Most people of the present age think in an uncontrolled fashion. And every uncontrolled thought signifies reconciliation, or balancing, that has not been carried out, an inability to place oneself in a relationship appropriate to the appearances. It is like a “slipping out,” and a slipping in the physical world is also a reconciliation or balancing that has not been carried out with the physical world. We must develop with us an intense feeling for good thinking that carries through to the end, so that we feel a kind of physical pain when an improper thought occurs within us or from another person. In ordinary life it is not possible to control one’s thoughts in this fashion. Consider how much you are forced to continually think in an illogical fashion when you are engaged in your professional life. For people think illogically everywhere. In daily life, in businesses, in the higher professions, in natural science, in history, you encounter illogical thinking everywhere; and the most illogical of all you will find in jurisprudence, there where one should be thinking the most logically.

Those who want to arrive at higher knowl- sensitivity to wrong thoughts must take root edge themselves, and not just hear it from within you. It must reach the point that you other people who have it, must begin to live feel you are being stuck by needles of wrong their lives from within. In order to do this thoughts. You must also feel this when you are they must entirely close themselves off from reading books. If you cannot feel pain caused the rest of their lives, at least for very short by illogical thinking, then neither can you periods of time during the day. Even if it is develop proper thinking. for only five to ten minutes or only three to However, you must not only understand four minutes, they must devote themselves to proper thinking, you must also love it. You their own inner life and to such thoughts that must love a thought as one loves a child. You do not originate in our immediate culture, not have seen your child today, yesterday, and the in our everyday life, but have rather a higher day before yesterday and you still love it. You origin, thoughts, in which one can place one’s must do the same with your thought world. trust. When you think that you have understood This withdrawal, this living and weaving in a thought you must not push it out of your a world of thought that is strictly ordered, this thoughts, but rather turn to it repeatedly. devotion to such a world of thought, if only When you can do that then you are equipped for a short period of time, that is what com- with a kind of “thought armor,” and then the pensates for the distraction and fragmentation transition stage ceases, the stage when you caused by external civilization. Then, strength- had to fight off thoughts that were illogical. ened with an inner center, we can go through It ceases when thoughts are facts to you just the everyday world; we can lead ourselves as much as a chair, a table, and so forth. You through the everyday world through our abil- become positive. Those who live in the spiriity to remove thoughts from our field of inner tual world know that. They also know that vision if they do not belong to our ordered they are always surrounded by thoughts that life. Do not think that you will always be are powers and forces working upon us. Those able to do this! Just remember that when you who are receptive for it can see how thoughts cross the street you are not lord of your own of hatred, how thoughts of good will are sent thoughts; that from all sides, without your back and forth between people. They see how being able to do anything about it, thoughts thoughts are drawn into people and how they from the surrounding world are attacking you, bounce back. There are people who stand affecting your consciousness, using it to play before us in a strange way; they stand there as so that you are a plaything of your conscious- if surrounded by a crystal body, in the midness. As long as you lack the power to reel in dle of which they live. And all inappropriate, your thoughts as if on a string, you cannot unsuitable thoughts bounce off this crystal expect that the inner world will open itself to sheath. Those are people who understand how you. We can only expect to become lord of our to lead a meditative life, who understand how own thought world when we manage to free to regulate their lives from within. ourselves from everyday life for a brief period You can test whether your thought control of time and lift ourselves to ideals. has been successful. But not by simply saying When one acquires love for an ideal then to yourself, “Now I am thinking correctly,” but one achieves inner strengthening. It does not rather by using a barometer that can show you depend upon grasping a thought with one’s how your thinking is controlled from within. understanding. And for those who follow the path of knowlConsider the first thought in Light on the Path: edge, that is one’s dream life. For those who “Before the eyes can see they must be incapable truly understand these things, one’s dream life of tears.” Consider it today, tomorrow, and is valued highly, though not in the same way repeatedly—then it begins to be alive. And if as by others who are superstitious. For those you deflect everything else that tries to inter- who understand, it has an entirely different ject itself and mix up this thought, then it will significance than for people who have not yet become the center point of your being. It lives managed to control their thought life. and weaves within you. It will show you that For most people dream life is a wild, mixedit causes other thoughts to come forth from up confusion. But that ceases completely after it, that it is endlessly fruitful. And you will we have devoted ourselves to a meditative life see what you have to overcome inwardly. A for a while. Then our dreams acquire a deep,

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4. Work as those work who are ambitious. symbolic significance. A barometer for our sleeping. Hence the unconscious condition of Value life as those who love it. Be happy as degree of thought control can be found in the the greatest portion of humanity during sleep. those who live only for happiness. regularity, in the beauty of our dreams. As long Such a continuity of consciousness appears as we stagger through external life our dreams only very slowly, so that you are actually awake And further: will be a confused reflection of that external in sleep as you are awake in your physical body, Seek in your heart the root of evil and life. However, in the moment when we begin and then you carry this wakeful consciousness tear it out. to set aside at least brief periods in order to over into your everyday wakeful consciousness. The theosophist must feel that we are a part become strong and powerful in our resistance There you have a way to achieve a kind of against all that assaults us, our dreams take on barometer for measuring in physical life. The of the whole—that we share responsibility for a symbolic significance. Then, in a controlled ability to resist the assaults of ordinary life all that exists. Those who are not in a posiway, we must make the effort to ask: What is is raised. The body must become a kind of tion to understand that they, too, are guilty if someone steals tomorrow, who are not in it presenting to me, this dream that appears a position to know how they are connected to in this way? or us to see things the whole, those people are not in a position That is also the difference between a higher to seek the root of evil. Because we lack the dream and a lower. It is not the case that a of a soul and spiritual possibility and the ability to start with other dream equals a dream. The life that a human nature, a light “more people it reads: Seek in the heart—in your being unfolds in the sleep condition is totally radiant than the Sun” must heart—the root of evil and tear it out. For it different for those who are developing their lives and thrives in the heart of the ambitious spiritual body than for those who are not. One shine upon us. This light disciple just as in the hearts of the children of who has spiritual experience knows this. Those does not proceed from the world. who know nothing other than what their eyes, any external sun but from No one is allowed to imagine that he or she ears and tongue tell them, who are completely is good—as if we could even do that, as if we absorbed in the sense world, during sleep they the source of light that we could do that for even a moment—or that he can experience nothing more that a confused kindle in ourselves when or she is much better than other people. We reminiscence of their sense impressions. Howwe seek within for our must be completely filled with the thought ever, what you achieve in five minutes through that we cannot be much better than another. your spiritual work is something that stimuhigher, eternal self. What have we done, for example, if we make lates the spirit and sets it in motion, something people happy while at the same time, because that you take with you everywhere whether or not your body is with you. Then when our instrument. Then you can observe the body we live the way we live, we are making many dreams begin to become regular and become outside of yourself, lying next to you. But you unhappy? Ignorance is the root of suffering in little dramas with a development and regular are living in the spirit when you begin to with- life. We are ignorant, as is so often the case, actions, then what we call our true inner spiri- draw from what is connected to your body. In that we have sharpened the knife for those tual life is active. this way, you do not become less capable for who use it for evil. Only the strong are able However, this is only the lowest step. What life but rather more capable, for those who to kill it. The weak, however, must wait their must then be added is this: when you are mak- know the spirit are always more capable in life. growth, their maturation, their death. This ing room for moments separated from the rest It all depends on your setting aside part of weed grows in human beings through world of your life (but you are not allowed to take your day in order to devote yourself to higher epochs. It thrives; however, it only blossoms these moments from your work life, from your thoughts that have nothing to do with every- when they have passed through countless lives. Sometimes it does not appear until very late professional life, for theosophists are not per- day self-seeking, ambition, ordinary sensual mitted to take anything away from their work comforts—and that you let the light of such incarnations: that one who already ascended into the heights has fallen deeply later. It is not life) and then use them for inner advancement, thoughts shine into everyday life. then you will notice something that occurs Thus we have understood the very first unusual that those with the deepest knowledge very soon for those who spend some time in teaching in Light on the Path. It does not want to join those who have fallen the lowest. Those meditation, in the inner spiritual life. You will lead people to asceticism; it does not want to adventurous souls were indistinguishable from notice that you remember your dreams in an estrange people from this world. Those who the great ones. Those who want to tread the path of masentirely different way than was otherwise the come to asceticism do not correspond to the case. This is the continuity of consciousness theosophical ideal but rather those who come tery must tear this weed out of their hearts. that continually increases the more a person to the spirit out of their ordinary life. When And then the heart will bleed heavily; one’s entire life will appear to have been destroyed. develops the self, and this increases in such a we read in Light on the Path: Receive this word almost literally, but in way that one becomes objective inwardly. As 1. Kill off ambition. a spiritual sense. Consider what the highest long as you identify entirely with your body— 2. Kill off love of life. meaning and grandest value of life is. Say to just as long it is not the spirit with which you 3. 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which I have lived, yet they are perhaps entirely we can then use. We must disaccustom ourwithout value. I must begin a new life if I no selves to tears; we must overcome sympathy longer wish to live in the manner to which I and antipathy so that we can bring the proper am accustomed, if I do not want it formed attitude to images in our memories. and created by an influence foreign to me but When we have become lord over our memwant to shape and create it through my own ory — over our ability to think and form meninner life. We then do not become another to tal pictures — we have reached our preliminary external appearances, but we are leading our goal. We recognize that those who do not lives following a different impulse. We will be practice this must constantly feel that they are guiding our lives not out of vanity, not out of dependent upon every spiritual “draft” around ambition, not out of sensual comfort, for we them, like a swaying reed that is thrown this will no longer be able to do that, but rather way and that by every passing thought. There out of a sense of duty, because it must happen is no other means of getting into the astral out of a higher insight. and mental world than to create and form The ordeal must be endured. It may come oneself from within. Those who organize their to you on the first step of the perilous ascent memories, who in the evenings form the cloudwhich leads to the path of life, perhaps at the like shape into regular radiant forms, namely last. But consider well that it must be endured, the higher parts, which proceed from the head and fasten all your energies upon the task. You and heart, those people will show that they are not allowed to live in the present moment live from within into the outer world. When nor in the future but only in the eternal. human beings have come this far, then nothing The seer can perceive how thoughts, like bad can reach them anymore. In their presence spears from the external world, pierce those we could send them thoughts of the worst sort who live in the present moment. Thoughts and those thoughts would come right back as that could be detrimental bounce off those if they had not even touched them. In their who live in the eternal. It is not external suc- meditative work they have built a spiritual covcess, not what we can achieve that brings us ering that surrounds them. further but rather that we live in the eternal in every moment. We will achieve nothing if Esoteric Lesson 1 we strive with greed. We should not live in the B ERLIN , O CTOBER 4, 1904 future but only in the eternal. This giant weed cannot flower there; this UM blot upon your existence is wiped out by the “Seek the Path.” very breath of eternal thought. Then we come “Seek the path by going deep within your to the formation of the astral body. Just as we self.” worked on the mental body through thought “Seek the path by boldly going out of your control, so, too, we must work on our astral self.” body by ordering our memory. It must also be These two sentences only appear to concontrolled, must become an object for testing. tradict one another. In truth they express two That exerts an enormous, significant influence extraordinarily correct facts. on one’s entire life. You must discontinue the Turning inward is namely the first half of habit of having egotistical thoughts of regret a path. To begin with, at the present stage of when you look back on your actions. What development, human beings are living in the you remember must simply be there for you to sense perceptions of the external world. Even learn how to do things better. We must learn when they use their intellect and understanding from the past and use our memory to make our souls more capable. When we so regulate to process these sense impressions, they remain our memories that we do not look back in “outside.” If they free themselves from the sense an arbitrary way but rather look back even at impressions and withdraw into themselves, what appears to be the least significant things they still have the power to think. This thinkso that they become a school for learning, ing is then emptied of external contents. That then we strengthen the backbone of our soul. signifies “going deep within your soul.” But When we strengthen our memory in this way, precisely because their thinking is “emptied,” then astral vision is formed. This transforms new content can flow to them from within. our astral body into an organ of the will that

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And this content is of a spiritual nature just as the previous content was sensuous. But just for this reason human beings can then step out of themselves. They can step out of the sphere of the lower self into the “spiritual external world.” This is indicated by the sentence, “Seek the path by boldly going out of your self.” A mystic combines all three sentences with the syllable AUM. The A is, first of all, the firm grip on the state, or condition, in which human beings always find themselves at the present stage of their evolution. The U is a symbol for going deep within your self and the M signifies stepping out into the spiritual external world.

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More radiant than the Sun, Purer than snow, Subtler than the ether, Is the self The spirit of my heart. I am this self, This self am I.

This verse lifts us up to our higher self every morning. Such verses are not thought up arbitrarily by just any person, but are obtained from the spiritual world. Therefore they contain much more than is usually believed. And one thinks of these correctly if one assumes that one can never completely fathom their content, although one can always find more within them the more one immerses oneself in them. Therefore, only individual indications can be given from the esoteric school as to how one seeks for their content. A few such indications are given in what follows. More radiant than the Sun

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the source of light that we kindle in ourselves an unlawful way. Carbon by itself is pure. It heart without discrimination to everything we when we seek within for our higher, eternal self. becomes dirt only if it is wrongfully united encounter. Our experience is initially deceptive. This higher self has a different origin than our with water. Now, when water assumes its own However, when we make an effort to underlower self. The latter experiences our everyday form in a snow crystal, it separates out all that stand a being or a thing down to its origin in surroundings. However, everything that lives has united wrongly with it. So too does the the divine, then we also begin to love it. If I in this everyday environment has at some time human soul become pure if it separates out have a depraved human being standing in front come into being and will one day pass away. all that is improperly united with it. And the of me, then in no way should I love his or her Thus our experience of it has only a transitory divine, the imperishable belongs to the soul. depravity. Through such an act I would only value. And from such transitory experiences Every ideal, every thought of something great be in error and would not help the person at and our thoughts about them our transitory and beautiful belongs to the inner form of the all. However, if I reflect on how this person self is built up. All things that become visible soul. And when it meditates upon such ide- has come to his or her depravity and if I help because of the Sun were, at one time, not in als, such thoughts, then it purifies itself as the him or her to leave it behind, then I am helpexistence, and some day they will pass away. water purifies itself in becoming snow crystal. ing the person and I myself struggle through Even the Sun came into existence at a certain And because the spiritual is purer than any- to the truth. I must seek everywhere to find time and will one day pass away. But the soul thing material the “higher self,” that is, the how I can love. God is present in all things, but exists for the very purpose of recognizing the soul that lives in the heights, is “purer than this divinity in any particular thing I must first eternal in things. When one day the entire snow.” seek. It is not the external aspect of a being or Earth will be no more, the souls who inhabthing that I should love straightaway, for this Finer than the ether ited it will still exist. And what these souls can be deceptive and I could easily love the Ether is the finest form of matter. But all error. But truth lies behind all illusion and we can have experienced on Earth they will carry with matter is still dense compared to the element always love truth. And if the heart seeks the love of truth them elsewhere as a memory. of soul. It is not the “dense” that is lasting in all beings, then there lives the “spirit in the heart.” Such It is the same as when a person does a good deed for me. The deed passes away, but what love is the garment the soul should always wear. Then the ll objects are these he or she has planted in my soul remains. And soul itself weaves the divine into things. denser thoughts of God. the bond of love that has thus united us does ••• not pass away. What we experience is always The members of the school should take sevThe “higher self,” however, the source of something that endures within eral minutes a day to connect such thoughts to dissolves all things, and the us. We extract from things whatever endures the divine maxims of wisdom, which have been thoughts of God then live in it. and carry it into eternity. And when one day given to us by the masters out of their boundhuman beings are transplanted to a quite dif- And when the self is woven out less world-experience. They should never think ferent arena of action, they will bring with that they have completely understood a maxim, of such thoughts of God, then them what they have gathered here. And their but always assume that still more lies in it than it is “finer than the ether.” deeds in the new world will be woven out of they have already found. Through an attitude the memories of the old. There is no seed such as this we come to feel that in all genuine that does not bear fruit. If we are united with but the “fine.” The stone that we think of as wisdom lies the key to the infinite, and in this someone by love, then this love is a seed and we matter, will pass away as matter. But the thought feeling we bind ourselves to the infinite. will experience the fruit all through the future of the stone, which lives in the soul, remains. ••• because we belong together with such a person God has thought this thought. And out of it It is not a matter of meditating on many throughout the future. Thus, something lives he made the dense stone. Just as ice is merely sentences, but rather of letting a little live in us that interweaves with the divine power solidified water, similarly a stone is simply a repeatedly in a soul that has become still. Durthat binds all things together into the eternal thought of God made dense. ing the meditation itself one should speculate All objects are these denser thoughts of God. very little, but rather quietly allow the content fabric of the universe. This “something” is our higher self. And this is more radiant than the The “higher self,” however, dissolves all things, of the sentences to work upon one. But apart Sun. The light of the Sun illuminates a per- and the thoughts of God then live in it. And from the meditation, during free moments in son from the outside only. The sun of the soul when the self is woven out of such thoughts the course of the day one should return to the illuminates a person from within. Therefore, it of God, then it is “finer than the ether.” content of the sentences and see what reflecThe spirit in my heart We have only really tions one can draw from them. Then they is more radiant than the Sun. understood something when we have grasped become a living power that sinks into the soul Purer than snow with our heart. Intellect and reason are merely and makes it strong and vigorous. For when In itself everything is pure. It can become mediators for the heart’s understanding. the soul unites with eternal truth, it lives in the impure only when it unites with something Through intellect and reason we penetrate to eternal. And when the soul lives in the eternal, that should not be united with it. In and divine thoughts. But once we have really taken then higher beings have access to it and can let of itself water is pure. But even the dirt in hold of the thought, then we must learn to their own power sink into it. dirty water would be pure if it were in and of love it. 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gave his first lectures on the subject almost a century ago. Biodynamic agricultural methods are based on deep spiritual insight and knowledge of cosmic relationships and the farmer’s practical ability to observe the natural environment holistically. The kind of people who work with the soil, plants, and animals are not generally impressed by lofty philosophical ideas and abstract concepts unless those ideas actually function in the field to produce better results. Those who have taken the necessary time to learn and implement biodynamic methods know that they do in fact work. Beyond the obvious benefits of producing healthier food, the purpose of biodynamics is to build the soil, leave the ground water clean, and help develop a healthy relationship between growers and nature, the Earth, the cosmos, and their own humanity. Most of us are familiar with the tragic scenario of farmers being caught in a vicious cycle of weeds, insects, and chemicals, or stories of ground water becoming so polluted that local residents are forced to move away or bring in fresh water while an environmental cleanup takes place. It’s not just factories and pig farms that do this kind of damage; the methods of the corporate, monocultural farms run as conventional agribusinesses have led to the dangerous buildup of salts, metals, and harmful mineral imbalances in the soil and water table through the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides — often made worse by combining these with mechanical watering and irrigation technologies.

growing and selling fruit or vegetables; for most independent vintners, the process begins with the particular joy and satisfaction that arises their personal relationship to the fields and vines themselves and then seeing the fruits of their labors turn into fine wines that can be enjoyed by thousands of people. It’s truly a social process—one in which the stereotypic lone “Norwegian bachelor farmer” would be completely out of place. Each vineyard arises from the vision of an individual or family, exists in a specific microclimate, and has its own unique soil composition and terrain, which in turn calls for a specific variety of grapevine. During most of the 1980s, six thousand acres of grape growing By the mid-twentieth century, however, a huge trend had developed in areas in the San Joachim Valley in California looked like a “desert the industry. Large producers had moved toward making affordable and with grape vines stuck into dried mud.” Herbicides killed all other more consistent wines that do not depend on season, place, or grower. plant life. Gallo Wine, a multi-billion dollar company, was on a “chemical treadmill”; insects developed resistance to chemical insecThey wanted to guarantee “success” by introducing artificial ingrediticides in less than four years.* ents into the growing and winemaking processes. Naturally, there has Such problems don’t belong only to the farmers; they affect our envi- been a serious downside to all of this. As Monty Waldin points out, ronment and trickle down through the production process and into from personal experience, in his excellent book, Biodynamic Wines, “No the quality of the final products we consume each day. Agribusiness one had considered the effect of vineyard modernization on wine qualrepresentatives and lobbyists generally claim that their methods are safe, ity. The impact of the new chemical treatments on the vines gradually efficient, and save the consumer money, but we and our children are but perceptibly threw the vines out of balance. We were forever playing likely to pay later through poor health and a ruined enviornment. How catch up against pests, diseases, and mineral deficiencies in the vines.” many of us now buy bottled water? Fifty years ago, such a concept was He also mentions the cash that tends to flow away from production and profit and toward the chemical industry. laughable, yet today people are beginning to buy

canned oxygen. In recent decades, there has been a groundswell of interest in biodynamics from a particular, perhaps unexpected, agricultural sector. Winegrowers around the world have been switching from the artificial practices that the largest wine producers have come to consider essential. These courageous pioneers in the industry have begun to embrace organic and biodynamic methods. And their reasons for doing so have to do with more than just the quality of their products. Just imagine the vision and inspiration that leads a person to begin the long, hard work of clearing and preparing land, planting and tending a vineyard, and developing the skills needed to make unique, quality wines. The whole process goes far beyond simply

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On a very rainy April day this year, I had the opportunity to revisit one of the most beautiful places I have ever lived: Sonoma wine country in Northern California. The goal of my travels was the Benziger Family Winery and a visit with Mike Benziger, the inspiring force behind its inception and continued growth. It is perhaps the largest family-owned winery in California, with eightyfive acres in twenty-nine “distinct blocks of enological charisma.” Benziger Family Winery pursues biodynamic methods more aggressively than perhaps any other winery in North America.

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More than twenty years ago, Mike and Mary Benziger drove up Sonoma Mountain and saw an overgrown ranch that would eventually become Benziger Family Winery. With the help of Bruno Benziger, Mike’s father and a wine and spirits importer from New York, they purchased the land. Much of Mike’s family joined the effort during the following years, and, today, more than two dozen Benzigers live on or near the estate. The first Benziger Family wines were produced to critical acclaim in 1981. In 1982, the family introduced the Glen Ellen brand and with it a new category of good wines at affordable prices, dubbed “the fighting varietal.” In 1993, the Benzigers sold their popular Glen Ellen brand to pursue the family’s common goal — “to craft wines that authentically express the individual vineyards from which they are made, with integrity and an enduring respect for the land.” The Benzigers live and breathe Sonoma County winegrowing. “There’s an incredible moment when people get the idea of how grapes and wine are connected to a local area,” says Mike Benziger. “It’s really a wow experience. If we can be the ones who usher in that experience for them, then we’re successful.” It is this respect for the very local microclimate, or terroir (roughly, a “sense of place”), that underlines this dedication to quality winemaking and deep respect for the land. Biodynamics and terroir are a natural, even necessary, fit. I spoke with Mike for two or three hours in a meeting room at the winery, as the rain poured outside and, at times, distracted him with concern about too much moisture, which could have significantly delayed their springtime work in the vineyards. What came across most of all in his words was his love of the land, his passion for making wine, and his commitment to biodynamic methods. I began by asking him how one would go about establishing biodynamics on a vineyard, especially given the fact that such an operation involves so many people. First, of course, the staff had to be trained, which in many ways involves self-

training once the principles are understood. This is because observation is a key to the success of a biodynamic operation. The idea of observing, both in ordinary and in more subtle ways, came up repeatedly. For example, Mike explained that, since they don’t use pesticides, they must constantly observe the landscape and ecosystem for signs that would indicate a possible increase in insects harmful to the vines and grapes; then they need to do something to prevent that from happening. They also had to diversify, creating what Mike referred to as “OldWorld polyculture.” Biodynamics requires a more holistic environment than that provided by conventional monoculture. It helps, for example, to interplant the vines with various types of other plants and flowers that draw certain helpful insects and repel others. Such growth also helps maintain healthy soil. To my eye, it also adds a great deal of color and beauty to the landscape. It also helps to have animals and insectaries on the land. Each aspect does its part in the overall ecosystem. “Since 1987, the Benzigers have practiced natural pest control at their Sonoma Mountain ranch. The elimination of all pesticides was achieved largely through the planting of three wildlife sanctuaries (land devoted to plants that attract beneficial mites and bugs that prey on insects harmful to grapevines), as well as wetlands, gardens and careful cover crop rotation.” Then I asked Mike about how he goes about training the staff at the winery: I work with two types of people; I work with people who are really smart who’ve never had a lot of formal education, and I work with people who are very smart who have a ton of formal education. I know that this very general, but it’s my observation that people who are smart but don’t have any formal education tend to see the relationships between things, whereas the people who’ve gone to school tend to see the components. In other words, the people who have more formal education see the gears, and the people with less education see how the gears mesh. As I said, the rock-bottom foundation of biodynamics is the relationship you form with the land. In biodynamics we don’t have any magic, no silver bullets; we don’t use chemicals. We can’t make time go backward, so to speak, by spraying some kind of pesticide or herbicide or by using antibiotics. We have to see, through our powers of observation, the conditions that form problems and then act on those conditions. Once they become problems, it’s too late.

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So one of the things we did right at the beginning is to involve all of the employees in the process by learning biodynamics together. Biodynamics is a team sport. And I was a little nervous about explaining biodynamics to my Hispanic crew — I mean, what are they going to think about this; how are they going to receive this? But I was blown away. They came to me and said, “We couldn’t understand why you didn’t do things this way from the beginning. This is the way we always

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did things.” They always had animals incorporated into their farms. They never had a farm that was all corn; it was corn and other vegetables all planted together. Their parents had these special teas and concoctions that they used to spray on the ground and on the vines that made the vines healthier and produce more. They were always scratching their heads, wondering why we were carrying on a more artificial type of farming. Biodynamics is closer to the way they traditionally farmed, and they were the first to see that the conventional methods aren’t working. It was creating pests that were harder to control, it was creating weeds that were impossible to eliminate over time. What does it say when you have to wear protective clothing, gloves, and a mask into the field to work? You’re posting a skull and cross-bones and then asking workers to go into the field the next day, and eventually selling that produce to consumers.

For the wine industry, the organic and biodynamic movements are still somewhat under the radar for most of the public, and the large, conventional producers still command most of the attention through their power to advertise, market, and mass-produce cheap wines. According to Mike Benziger, however, “There’s a growing awareness of the quality of what people are putting into their bodies — the baby boomers, say — and a growing awareness of how things are produced, which involves young people more. We are at a tipping point. I think it’s only a matter of time before this [biodynamically produced wine] becomes a legitimate category. One of the attractions of biodynamic wines is the fact that biodynamics is a practice that lets you put the passion and the commitment of the people into the bottle of wine.” There’s an advantage to being a smaller producer when it comes to changing over to biodynamics. The setting is more intimate, the investment in existing, conventional methods is much smaller, and the small, family-owned winery is not bound by the quarterly profits expected by shareholders of a large corporation. The amount of consolidation that has taken place in the wine business is tremendous. In our valley alone, there used to be thirty family businesses. Now I don’t think there’s another winery in California that has as many family members involved as we do. The family business is under a lot of pressure, so when it comes to something like biodynamics, it gives the small producer the opportunity to

produce a distinctive product, giving us some point of difference in the marketplace. But by doing this, it takes a great commitment, because it takes five or six years to change over and more for the process to become mature, where you see the results in the bottle of wine. When you really look at it, it’s a life’s work. I’ve been doing this for thirty years, so this is a recommitment for me. Biodynamics has completely changed the way I view grapes and winemaking. Once you understand the principles and practice of biodynamics, you feel it as an obligation—not one that feels heavy, but one that feels right. And the neat thing about biodynamics is that you can do the right thing and make a better wine. This is where biodynamics and organics differ. In the past, say twenty years ago, you might by organic products, and they were okay, but you were mostly buying into the philosophy of it. But now the methodology exists, what I call “natural technology,” to make products of the highest quality and to do it in a way that increases the biological capital of the property over time. The definition of quality changes; it doesn’t necessarily mean the biggest or strongest, but something distinct, something integrated with its environment. But biodynamics comes in only at the highest level. It cannot fix mistakes, but help only if you’re already a good farmer. You get into it because you believe it will take you to the next level, in this case being able to put what I call the “four fingerprints” on the bottle of wine: the fingerprint of the place; the fingerprint of the passion of the people who made it; the fingerprint of the varietal; and the fingerprint of the vintage. Today, the commodity is the varietal character; chardonnay, cabernet—these are starting to taste the same, whether they’re made in Australia, Chile, California, or Languedoc, because of the industrial methods. The use of chemicals eliminates nature; it eliminates the plants ability to bond with nature and to reflect the environment it’s in. So the plant can produce only its varietal character. To create wines of distinction, you have to place those other three “fingerprints” on top of the varietal character. That’s what biodynamics specializes in, because it lets nature in.

For Mike Benziger, one of the most important aspects of biodynamics is one’s connection with the land and with nature. People today are largely disconnected from nature. Most people work in offices or in artificial settings, and often going out into nature means going to a city

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stage in that process. So by very careful handling, the wine stays at its maximum quality. One of the things biodynamic products are known for is shelf-keeping capacity, their ability to stay in a very wholesome and fresh condition for a long period of time without preservatives.

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park or to an atrium. Food is bought mostly in stores without much thought of its natural origin. It’s the connection with the land that gives the passion needed to farm biodynamically. Thousands of visitors come to the Benziger winery each year, and they are taken around the farm on a tour. Central to that tour is an explanation of biodynamics and what that means for the land, the people, and the wines. People come to understand that the process is very personal and intimate for those who work the land and make the wine, and it gives the visitors some sense of reconnecting with the land and nature. “Biodynamics,” Mike says, “isn’t so much a financial commitment as it is a personal commitment, which is why it would be so difficult for large wineries to get into it. You’re going to be only as good in biodynamics as the amount of land you can love.” He continues: I think that the ability to observe and developing the organ of intuition is the most rewarding aspect of biodynamics. It forces you to pursue a path of personal development. You can go only so far in biodynamics without developing yourself to a higher level, through the practice of observation, through the practice of intuition, and through a certain reverence you develop for nature.

Successfully managing the winemaking process also means being proactive instead of being reactive. Once you find yourself becoming reactive, you are merely trying to correct the past. Reactive agriculture is the conventional method. When bugs pose a danger, you spray poison. When weeds become a problem, you apply herbicide. Being proactive means looking ahead by “communicating” with the environment, so that you can anticipate and prevent problems before they occur. A unique quality of biodynamic wine that Mike mentioned is that it preserves the character of the place. In his vision, the grape vine acts as a kind of lens that captures the essence of the surrounding environment. And the field itself acts as a “collector” in a broader sense, gathering the influences of the cosmos, the earth, and so on. All of these influences are gathered into the fruit. So it makes sense that the addition of chemicals at any point in the process pollutes the final product. Another unique strength of biodynamic wine that he mentioned is its “ability to evolve in the bottle. The grapes have so much energy in them that is preserved through the whole process, that they have this ability to become much more complex as the aging process goes on.” This approach to winemaking involves the fundamental idea that you can make a real difference only at the “points of transition.” Mike asserts that, if you mess around with the components, you only manipulate it.

The only place that you can really benefit the process truly and keep it authentic is at the transition points—the harvest, fermentation, blending, aging, and so on. If you’re very careful and very conscious at those points, you won’t lose any energy; in fact, you may gain energy. But typically, transition points have always been places for energy to “leak” or to lose momentum. So in biodynamics, we try to maximize the energy that we collect every year, so that we have the maximum energy in the bottle and maximize the potential for evolution [of the wine]. Our job is to manage those transitions—to gain energy and quality during those transitions.

So far, Mike had talked about one’s relationship with the land and working with nature. I wanted to know how the process of winemaking itself differs for a biodynamic winery. We pick the grapes by hand, and they are culled several times. Then the grapes come in, and we have super, high-tech machinery that handles these grapes very gently and in a way that helps us extract the flavor with none of the bitterness. Then they go into open-tank fementors, where they are exposed to the sky and we just supervise their fermentation. We don’t add any yeast; we control their temperatures, and they go through a completely natural process. Once they’re finished, they go directly into the barrel, without any additions whatsoever. So nothing is added to the wine at all, until it goes into its second stage, when a small amount of sulfur dioxide is added—the amount allowed by biodynamic regulations. Sulfur dioxide is part of the natural “background,” a natural part of the grape, but we add just a little to keep a certain level of protection. Grapes naturally turn into vinegar, and wine is just a momentary 106

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people you’ve met. We get to live here, and we get to manage transformation. We’re involved in the transformation of people and of wine. They’re inseparable, and that’s what makes the wine unique— the fact that it retains the passion of the people who make it. It could be argued that wine is one of the most impressionable liquids on Earth—it definitely has one of the best memories ever. It remembers everything that you do to it, even positive and negative thoughts.

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But that takes a lot of work. It means understanding the process and when to leave it alone and when to intercede. We’re paid a lot to do things; not doing things is different and requires breaking old habits. But it becomes much easier when you have the relationship with the vines and with the environment.

Mike called this the “materiality of intentionality,” or what Masaru Emoto talked about water in his Hidden Messages in Water (Atria, 2005). Material substances retain the memory and even take the shape of the thoughts of people nearby. It seemed obvious to me that, in many different ways, Mike’s contagious enthusiasm certainly has a real and positive effect on the final product in the bottle. In the end it became obvious to me that there is no separation between the “relationship with the land and working with nature” and the winemaking itself. The whole process is reflected both in the wine and in the people who make it. I ended my visit with a rainy tour of the vineyards with Mike Benziger and Barney Barnett. The grounds are surrounded by the beautiful green of Sonoma Mountain, Jack London State Park, and terraced

I also met Barney Barnett, the winery’s organizational consultant. For more than fifteen years, he has worked with the family and workers by applying a sort of biodynamic approach, or “energy management system,” to the organizational and social environment. This practice of deep observation is intended to maximize and fine-tune the organization so that each year’s production reaches its optimum potential. It involves the same process that Mike just mentioned; whether it’s in the field or around the team sitting around the table, it’s a matter of managing those states of energy. What we’re always trying to do—and this is the meaning of transformation—is organize energies into a higher state. And the meaning of biodynamics is your ability to order the diversity on your property into a transcendent state. We are probably the luckiest

vineyards. The land includes an impressive compost pile; a small outbuilding where the various biodynamic preparations are processed; and two linked ponds that purify the water used in the production process and recycle three to four million gallons of water per year for use on the land. Finally, we visited my favorite spot, a cave-cellar with the aroma of oak barrels that includes a banquet area. • • • * “New Trends in Agriculture: Biodiversity and Wetlands Reclamation,” Ecologia Newsletter, no. 28, January/February 1994. Suggested Reading: Monty Waldin, Biodynamic Wines, London: Mitchell Beasley, 2004. Nicholas Joly, Wine from Sky to Earth: Growing & Appreciating Biodynamic Wine, Austin, TX: Acres U.S.A., 1999. RelatedWebsites:

Lower pond with duck weed for second stage of reclaiming water

Benziger Family Wine: www.benziger.com. Imagery Estate Winery: www.imagerywinery.com.

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Index of Books & Authors 70 Years A-Growing 83 23 Abouleish, Ibrahim According to Luke 49 49 According to Matthew Agriculture 83 84 Agriculture Course Alchemy 31 53 Allen, Joan deRis Allen, Paul M. 53 74 Allison, John Almon, Clopper 27 34 Almon, Joan America’s Global Responsibility 68 Ancient Myths 40 Angels 47 67 Anschutz, Marieke Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine 61 Anthroposophical Understanding 66 of the Soul Anthroposophy & the Inner Life 38 25 Anthroposophy in Everyday Life Apocalypse of Saint John 51 25 Approaches to Anthroposophy Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha 4 25 Archangel Michael Archetypal Feminine in the Mystery Stream of Humanity 58 Archiati, Pietro 29, 47, 55, 72 76 Architecture Architecture As a Synthesis of the Arts 76 76 Art Aspects of Human Evolution 40 31 Atlantis At Home in the Universe 25 33 At the Dawn of a New Age Aurora 82 5 Autobiography Awakening to Community 29 Background to the Gospel of St. Mark 49 Bamford, Christopher 56 12 Banerjee, Maria Nemcová Barfield, Owen 41 73, 74 Barnes, Christy Mackaye Barnes, Henry 33 79 Barnes, John Battle for the Soul 26 47 Bauer, Dietrich Baum, John 45 77 Bayes, Kenneth Becoming Aware of the Logos 55 53 Beginnings of Christianity Ben-Aharon, Jesaiah 41, 68 82 Benesch, Friedrich Benson, J. Leonard 74 66 Bento, William Beuys, Joseph 75

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67 Beyond the Forest 21 Beyond the Medical Meltdown Bible’s Hidden Cosmology 53 72 Bingham, Hiram A. Biodynamic Agriculture 84 10 Biodynamic Farm Biodynamic Food & Cookbook 21 Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar 2007 84 Bittleston, Adam 73 74 Blackboard Drawings Black Earth 72 81 Blattmann, Georg Blaxland-de Lange, Simon 20, 37 Blessed by Illness 62 Bock, Emil 51 71 Bock, Friedwart Bockemühl, Jochen 82 83 Bortoft, Henri Bott, Victor 60 43 Bridge over the River Brody, Judit 80 60 Broken Vessels Builders of Camphill 71 55, 58 Bulgakov, Sergei Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward 72 50 Burning Bush Buttner, Gottfried 74 59 Calendar 1912–1913 Calendar of the Soul 18 71 Case of Valentin Tomberg Challenge of the Times 68 28 Chance, Providence & Necessity Chartres 77 79 Childhood and Human Evolution Children and Their Temperaments 67 Children Who Communicate before They Are Born 47 47, 56, 67 Childs, Gilbert Childs, Sylvia 47 61 Child Is Born, A Christianity as Mystical Fact 5 52 Christian Book of the Dead Christian Hermetic Astrology 84 31 Christian Rosenkreutz Christmas Conference 30 30 Christmas Foundation Christ and Sophia 7 56 Christ and the Son of Man Chronicle of the Living Christ 53 76 Colour Colquhoun, Margaret 80 Complete Healing 61 Conford, Philip 70 68 Confronting Conflict Cook, Wendy E. 21, 63

Cookery Book for Patients with Cancer or 64 Precancerous Conditions Coping with Evil 10 Correspondence & Documents 33 Cosmic Christ 55 Cosmic Christianity 84 14 Cosmic Memory Crisis Points 65 43 Crossing the Threshold Cycle of the Seasons 59 Cycle of the Year As a Path of Initiation 59 d’Herbois, Liane Collot 76 65 Daisley, Jenny David’s Question 50 82 Davidson, Norman Davy, John 80, 81 72 Dawnwatchers Dead Are with Us 18 54 Deeper Secrets in Human History Deighton, Hilda 13 Destinies of Individuals and of Nations 41 Developing Biodynamic Agriculture 84 79 Developmental Dynamics Deverell, Doré 43 Diet and Cancer 61 Disciple Whom Jesus Loved 50 79 Does It Matter? Dostoevsky 12 63 Douch, Geoffrey Drake, Stanley 44 75 Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson Druids 31 79 Earth-Friendly Earthly Knowledge & Heavenly Wisdom 28 59 Easter Festival Easton, Stewart 34 28 East in the Light of the West Eclipses 2005–2017 78 78 Eco-Geography Edelglass, Stephen 81 14 Edmunds, L. Francis Edwards, Lawrence 81 Egyptian Myths and Mysteries 40 Ellison, Arthur 82 Emerson and Science 80 Encounters with Angels 48 Endless Trace 45 Enigma of Sunspots 80 Enlivening the Chakra of the Heart 38 Enterprise of the Future 68 Esoteric Aspect of the Social Question 68 Esoteric Christianity 52, 55 Esoteric Development 38 Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909 3 Esoteric Studies (Marie Steiner) 28 Esoteric Studies (Vreede) 29

Eternal Individuality 71 61 Evans, Michael Evelyn Francis Capel 71 28 Evil Evolution of the World & of Humanity 40 80 Ewald, Axel Expanding Tonal Awareness 77 61 Extending Practical Medicine “Freemasonry” and Ritual Work 4 82 Falck-Ytter, Harald Fall of Sophia 58 71 Farrer, Frances Festivals and Their Meaning 59 52 Fifth Gospel Finding the Greater Self 73 53 Fingal’s Cave Floride, Athys 69 80 Flowforms Foodwise 63 37 Forward, William Foundations of Curative Eurythmy 77 30 Foundation Stone Foundation Stone/The Life, Nature & Cultivation of Anthroposophy 30 Foundation Stone Meditation (Steiner) 18 Founding a Science of the Spirit 31 78 Fourth Dimension Four Seasons & the Archangels 59 28 Freedom As Spiritual Activity Frieling, Rudolf 54, 57 65 Friends and Lovers From Beetroot to Buddhism 32 55 From Christianity to Christ From Comets to Cocaine 32 32 From Crystals to Crocodiles From Elephants to Einstein 32 52 From Jesus to Christ From Limestone to Lucifer 32 32 From Mammoths to Mediums From Stress to Serenity 65 32 From Sunspots to Strawberries From the History and Contents of the First Section of the Esoteric School 3 Future is Now 36 73 Garber, Bernard Gardening for Life 84 81 Gebert, Hans Genesis (Steiner) 49 54 Give Us This Day Giving Judas a Chance 72 68 Glasl, Friedrich Glöckler, Michaela 62 Gnosis, the Mysteries & Christianity 55 Goddess 31 62 Goebel, Wolfgang Goerg, Hartmut 47

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Index of Books & Authors Goethe 6, 80 79 Goethe and the Power of Rhythm Goethe on Science 80 61 Gold & the Philosopher’s Stone Goodwin, Rufus 54 49 Gospel of St. John (Steiner) Gospel of St. John and Its Relation to the Other Gospels 57 49 Gospel of St. Mark Great Initiates 41 29 Great Religions Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily 6 30 Grosse, Rudolf Grünewald, Peter 61 48 Guardian Angels Guidance in Esoteric Training 38 62 Guide to Child Health Gulbekian, Sevak 36 79 Hageneder, Fred Hall, Alan 64 67 Hall, Kelvin Harlan, Volker 75, 76 31 Harmony of the Creative Word Harmony of the Human Body 62 75 Harris, Lynda Hauschka, Rudolf 33, 63, 64 60 Healing Process Heart of Peace 73 Heavenly Sophia and the Being 17 Anthroposophia 13 Heaven on Earth Held, Wolfgang 78 33 Hemleben, Johannes Heritage of Trees 79 34 Hiebel, Friedrich History in English Words 41 47 Hoffmeister, Max Hofstetter, Sr. Adrian 79 31 Holy Grail Holy Grail & the Eucharist 55 68 Homemaking As a Social Art Home Nursing for Carers 60 63 Home Remedies Hope, Evolution, and Change 80 54 Hope of the World How Can Mankind Find the Christ Again? 55 18 How Do I Find the Christ? How the New Art of Eurythmy Began 77 24 How to Know Higher Worlds How Wide the Heart 8 29 Human and Cosmic Thought Human Encounters and Karma 69 62 Husemann, Armin Husemann, Friedrich 61 Hymns to the Night/Spiritual Songs 73

Illustrated Calendar of the Soul 59 73 Imagination’s Music Incarnation of Ahriman 14 50 Incredible Births of Jesus Inner Nature of Color 74 Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine 60 Introduction to Anthroposophical Medicine 60 14 Introduction to Anthroposophy Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path 24 65 In Search of Home Iscador 62 57 Isis Mary Sophia Jacobi, Michael 83 65 Jenkinson, Angus Jesus, the Master Builder 54 16 Jocelyn, John Johanson, Irene 48 74 Jones, Michael Jones, Noragh 65 54 Joseph of Arimathea Judaism & Anthroposophy 29 40 Karma of Materialism Karma of Untruthfulness 19 46 Karmic Relationships Kaspar Hauser 71 56 Kelber, Wilhelm Keyserlingk, Adalbert Count 84 51 Kings and Prophets Kipp, Friedrich 79 Kirchner-Bockholt, Margarete 77 Klett, Manfred 83 39 Klocek, Dennis Knowledge of the Higher Worlds 24 10 Koepf, Herbert Koster, Margje 64 81 Kranich, Ernst-Michael Kühlewind, Georg 38, 55, 66 22 Ladwein, Michael Lady & the Unicorn 74 7 Lazarus, Come Forth! Lectures on Divine Humanity 58 Legend 72 Leonardo da Vinci 22 Lievegoed, Bernard 26, 65, 66, 69 Life between Death and Rebirth 44 Life beyond Death 44 Life for the Spirit 33 Lifting the Veil of Mental Illness 66 Light, Darkness, and Colour 76 in Painting Therapy Light beyond the Darkness 43 41 Light for the New Millennium Lindholm, Dan 48 39 Lipson, Michael Living Architecture 77

73 Living with the Dead 66 Love & the World Love and Its Meaning in the World 26 38 Lowndes, Florin Lukas Clinic 64 58 MacDermot, Violet Macrocosm and Microcosm 37 44 Madill, Betty Madsen, Jon 56 72 Maher, Barry Maier, Georg 81 69 Male and Female Manifestations of Karma 47 66 Man on the Threshold Marcus, Christopher 72 Marie Steiner 71 Marriage of Sense & Thought 81 79 Martin, Graham Dunstan Martyn, Philip 43 Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy 26 Matthews, Paul 76 30 May Human Beings Hear It! McCausland, Bruce H. 10 72 McLaughlin, Gerald T. Mead, G. R. S. 57 26 Meaning of Life Meaning of Love 66 11 Measure of Endurance Medicine 62 63 Medicine, Mythology & Spirituality Medicine for the Whole Person 63 Meditations on the Signs of the Zodiac 16 Meditative Prayers for Today 73 62 Mees, L. F. C. Meeting Rudolf Steiner 34 75 Merry, Eleanor Meyer, T. H. 37, 41 Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man 26 Millar, Gabriel Bradford 44 11 Mishler, William More Messages from the Angels 48 Most Holy Trinosophia 58 Murphy, Christine 62, 63 Mysteries (Steiner) 35 Mysteries of the East and of Christianity 42 Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres 35 Mystery of Arthur at Tintagel 56 Mystery of John the Baptist . . . 52 Mystery of Physical Life 81 Mystery of the Two Jesus Children 52 Mystery of the Universe 41 Mystery Streams in Europe 69 Mystics after Modernism 35 23 Myth of the Nativity Nature’s Open Secret 81

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Nature of Substance 64 48 Nature Spirits & What They Say Nature Spirits 48 53 Necessary Evil Necessity and Freedom 42 27, 52 Nesfield-Cookson, Bernard New Eyes for Plants 80 New Mysteries 16 New Spirituality 56 56 New Testament New Testament Studies 57 72 Nicaea Ninetta Sombart 76 54 Ninth Century & the Holy Grail Novalis 73 Nutrition 63 Obuchowski, Peter 80 42 Occult History Occult Movement in the 19th Century 42 Occult Physiology 64 Occult Science 25 8 One Language One Step at a Time 44 75 Opening Our Moral Eye Oppenheimer, Sharifa 13 80 Origins of Natural Science Origin and Development of Language 42 67 Our Twelve Senses Outline of Esoteric Science 25 20 Owen Barfield (biography) Paddock, Fred 29 13 Palermo, Gina Parchment, a novel 72 57 Paths of the Christian Mysteries Pelikan, Wilhelm 16 70 Personal World Phases 65 35 Philosophy, Cosmology & Religion Philosophy As an Approach to the Spirit 34 24 Philosophy of Freedom Pietzner, Carlo 37 57 Pistis Sophia Pogacnik, Ana 8 8 Pogacnik, Marko Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind 42 Powell, Robert 53, 58, 84 Prayers and Graces 74 Prayers for Parents & Children 73 Principles of Biodynamic Spray and Compost Preparations 83 Principles of Spiritual Science 35 42 Principle of Spiritual Economy Projective Geometry 81 17, Prokofieff, Sergei O. 28, 30, 33, 34, 42, 52, 56, 59, 71

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Index of Books & Authors Psychology of Body, Soul & Spirit 67 Pusch, Hans 78 47 Querido, René Rainbow Over the River 44 20 Raising the Soul Ramsbotham, Richard 75 56 Realities of Prayer Reality, Truth & Evil 37 Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric 56 Redemption of Thinking 36 12 Reilly, R. J. Reincarnation and Immortality 46 46 Reincarnation and Karma Reincarnation in Modern Life 47 57 Religion Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner 34 69 Renewal of the Social Organism Results from the Biodynamic Sowing 84 and Planting Calendar Rhythm of the Christian Year 51 75 Richards, M. C. Rodger, Iain 61 12 Romantic Religion Rosicrucianism & Modern Initiation 30 Rosicrucian Unity of Science, Religion, and Art 5 Rosicrucian Wisdom 36 72 Rowe, Martin Rudolf Steiner (biography) 33 33 Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction... Rudolf Steiner: Herald of a New Epoch 34 33 Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy Rudolf Steiner’s Research into Karma and the Mission of the 34 Anthroposophical Society Rudolf Steiner’s Vision of Love 27 Rudolf Steiner & the Founding of the New Mysteries 33 26 Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the British Ruland, Heiner 77 Saint Paul 51 Sardello, Robert 66 Schaefer, Christopher 70 Schilling, Karin V. 45 Schilthuis, Willy 84 Schmidt-Brabant, Manfred 16, 57, 58 Schroeder, Hans-Werner 53, 55 Schulz, Andreas 83 Schuré, Edouard 41 Schwenk, Theodor 6, 82 Schwenk, Wolfram 6, 83 Science 81 Science & the Paranormal 82 Science and Art of Healing 64 Sease, Virginia 16, 57, 58 Secrets of Metals 16

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36 Secret Brotherhoods Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch 75 34, 56 Seddon, Richard Seeing Christ in Sickness and Healing 53 39 Seer’s Handbook Sekem 23 27 Self Transformation Selg, Peter 53 82 Sensitive Chaos Shards from the Heart 73 77 Siegloch, Magdalene Singing and the Etheric Tone 13 76 Sing Me the Creation Sir George Trevelyan 71 Sky Phenomena 82 Sleigh, Julian 65 62 Slice of Life Social and Political Science 69 Social Issues 70 Soesman, Albert 67 Solovyov, Vladimir 58, 66 Sophia 58 78 Soul’s Awakening Soul’s Long Journey 50 Souls’ Awakening 78 Soulways 65 Sources of Inspiration of Anthroposophy 27 Speaking, Listening, Understanding 69 Speech of the Grail 67 Spiegler, Mado 29 Spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky, and Theosophy 36 41 Spiritual Event of the 20th Century Spiritual Foundation of Morality 27 42 Spiritual Origins of Eastern Europe Spirit Healing 64 65 Springboard Stairway of Surprise 39 39 Start Now! Star Children 66 45 Staying Connected Stein, Walter Johannes 54 28 Steiner, Marie Steiner, Rudolf 3, 4, 5, 14, 18, 19, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 52, 54, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 68, 69, 70, 73, 74, 76, 78, 81, 83, 84 52 Stolp, Hans Strachan, Gordon 53, 54, 77 Study Companion to An Outline of Esoteric Science 27 Sturgeon-Day, Lee 62 Suchantke, Andreas 78 Sucher, Willi 84

81 Sun Sun Mystery & the Mystery 3 of Death and Resurrection Sussman, Linda 67 37 Swassjan, Karen Temple Legend 36 24 Theosophy Thinking beyond Darwin 81 44 Though You Die Threefold Mary 51 36 Threefold Nature of Destiny Three Years 51 44 Thresholds Time of Decision with Rudolf Steiner 34 7 Tomberg, Valentin Tourmaline 82 70 Towards Social Renewal Toward a Phenomenology of the Etheric World 82 37 Toward Imagination Transformation of Evil 17 Transforming Earth – Transforming Self 37 Transforming People and Organizations 70 19 Transforming the Soul, 1 & 2 Transparent Realities 37 65 Treichler, Rudolf Trumpet to the Morn 37 56 Twelve Holy Nights Twentyman, Ralph 63, 64 37 Ultimate Communion of Mankind Uncovering the Voice 77 27 Understanding the Human Being Understanding Water 83 67 Understand Your Temperament! Unger, Carl 35 Up-Rising in Dying 74 Urieli, Baruch Luke 69 63 Vaccination Dilemma Valentin Tomberg and Anthroposophy 71 60 van Bentheim, Tineke van den Brink, Margarete 52, 70 44, 68 van Duin, Veronika van Emmichoven, 30, 66 Willem Zeylmans van Houten, Coenraad 36 37, 71 van Manen, Hans Peter Verhulst, Jos 79 74 Verses & Meditations Vision for the Millennium 70 70 Vision in Action Voice of the Eagle 56 17, 27 von Gleich, Sigismund Voors, Tÿno 70 29 Vreede, Elizabeth Wadler, Arnold D. 8 28 Warren, Edward

Water 6 Water, Electricity & Health 64 83 Water Crystals Watson, E. L. Grant 81 74 Way of Seeing Way of Self-Knowledge 4 61 Wegman, Ita Weirauch, Wolfgang 48 Welburn, Andrew 23, 33, 35, 53, 55 Wember, Valentin 22 77 Werbeck-Svärdström, Valborg Western Approach to Reincarnation 47 and Karma Westlake, Jean 83 43 Wetzl, Joseph What is Anthroposophy? (Prokofieff) 17 26 What Is Anthroposophy? (Steiner) What Is Art? 75 83 What Is Biodynamics? What the Angels Need to Tell Us Now 48 45 When Death Enters Life Where Are You? 45 83 Wholeness of Nature Who Wrote Bacon? 75 64 Why Me? Wijnberg, Nicholas 43 83 Wilkens, Andreas Wilkes, John 80 33, 42 Wilkinson, Roy Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven 71 65 Willis, Liz Will to be Free 22 13 Winter, Dina Soresi Wohrmann, Bernhard 82 61, 63 Wolff, Otto Wolpert, Andrew 37 64 Woodward, Bob Working Together on Rudolf Steiner’s 78 Mystery Dramas Working with Anthroposophy 38 37 Working with Destiny II Work of the Angel in Our Astral Body 18 World History and the Mysteries in the Light of Anthroposophy 30 Your Reincarnating Child 47 72 Zanoni Zeylmans, Emanuel 71 21, 60 Zieve, Robert Zimmermann, Heinz 69 61 zur Linden, Wilhelm

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