2006 steiner and spirit

Dear Friend,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.

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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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THE SUN MYSTERY & THE MYSTERY OF DEATH AND RESURRECTIONExoteric and Esoteric ChristianityIntroduction by Christopher Bamford Translated by Catherine E. Creeger

12 lectures, various cities, March 21–June 11, 1922 (CW 211)

THESE LECTURES were given in 1922, midway between the end of World War I and Steiner’s death in 1925.

The first two lectures are a call to arms and a return to basics. Steiner speaks existen-tially 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 evo-lution; as a result, we see the world differ-ently. 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 philo-sophical scholar. He developed his earlier philo-sophical 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, sci-ence, agriculture, and the arts. He founded the

General Anthroposophical Society, which has branches throughout the world.

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ESOTERIC LESSONS 1904–1909Volume 1RUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Christopher Bamford • Translated by James H. Hindes

1904–1909 (CW 266/1)

ONLY RECENTLY has it become clear that on most occasions Rudolf Steiner would visit a city to give a lecture, either to

members or to the general public, and also hold a meeting of the Esoteric Section where he also gave a talk. These talks were intended

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 esoteri-cism.


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FROM THE HISTORY AND CONTENTS OF THE FIRST SECTION OF THE ESOTERIC SCHOOL 1904–1914

Letters, Documents, and LecturesRUDOLF STEINER

Edited by Hella Wiesberger • Translated by John Wood

Volume 3 (CW 264)

AN IMPORTANT text for those inter-ested in the development of Rudolf

Steiner’s teaching and for exploring the advice and admonitions offered by Steiner to his early students. This collection of letters, circulars, and lectures give a glimpse of the birth of the anthro-posophical movement out of the theo-

sophical movement of the late nineteenth century. We gain a clear picture of why Steiner could no longer work within the theosophi-cal 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 concern-ing the “Masters” and their relationship to human evolution.

Includes introductory remarks by the book’s original editor, Hella Wiesberger.


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OCTOBER 2006

The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

From the History and Contents of

the First Section of the Esoteric School,

1904–1914letters, documents,

and lectures

Rudolf Steiner



A WAY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE And the Soul’s Path to Spiritual ExperienceTranslated and Introduced by Christopher Bamford

Written 1912 and 1913 (CW 16/17)

PART ONE, “A Way of Self-Knowledge,” contains eight meditations that take the reader on a

journey 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 con-sciousness; the true nature of love; and more.

The books included in this volume represent Stein-er’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 intro-duction, a chronology of Rudolf Steiner’s life, and an index.


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APPROACHING THE MYSTERY OF GOLGOTHAIntroduction by Christopher Bamford Translated by Michael Miller

10 lectures, various cities, 1913–1914 (CW 152)

FOR RUDOLF Steiner and Anthroposophy, 1913 was a landmark year. In February, after more than a year of gestation, the first

General Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society was held. In 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 col-lection, 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

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.


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“FREEMASONRY” AND RITUAL WORKThe Misraim Service Texts and Documents from the Cognitive-Cultic Section of the Esoteric School 1905–1919Introduction by Christopher Bamford Translated by Paul Emberson

(CW 265)

A LONGSIDE THE Esoteric Section, Rudolf Steiner cre-ated the “Cognitive Cultic Section,” a ritual order

connected to Masonic tradition, but independent and anthroposophical in inspiration. This astonishing vol-ume contains the rituals, lectures, meditations, and other

instructions Steiner gave. As he began to establish his esoteric mis-sion, 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 indepen-dent 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, commu-nitarian 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, extraordi-nary initiatory status — a patent to direct his own “order” under the name “Mystica Aeterna,” which became the “Cognitive Cultic Sec-tion” of the Esoteric School of the German Section of the Theo-sophical Society; this is the subject of this book.

This volume is an excellent companion to From the History and Con-tents of the First Section of the Esoteric School 1904–1914 (2006).


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AUTOBIOGRAPHYChapters in the Course of My Life: 1861–1907Introduction by Christopher Bamford, Notes by Paul Marshall Allen

Written 1924–1925 (CW 28)

“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

RUDOLF STEINER seldom spoke of himeself in a personal way, but in his Autobiography we are offered a rare glimpse into some of

the most intimate aspects of his inner life, his personal relationships, and significant events that helped to shape the philosopher, seer, and teacher he became.

This edition restores the original format of seventy chapters, just as they were written for the Goetheanum weekly newsletter. This autobiography is not merely a narrative of Rudolf Steiner’s successes and failures, but the story of a soul possessed of a precise, probing scientific mind and a natural clairvoyant ability to see into the spiritual world. Although naturally clairvoyant, Steiner always recognized the integrity and importance of modern scientific meth-ods, and thus he developed a modern discipline he named Anthroposophy, or spiritual science.

During the century that followed the events recorded in this autobiogra-phy, Rudolf Steiner’s insights have touched and enriched numerous areas of life in ways that con-tinue to transform people’s lives in the twenty-first century.

This illustrated, revised, updated, and expanded edition is the first volume to be released in The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner. This series will gradually collect all of the English transla-tions of Rudolf Steiner’s works—including many never before in English—into an attractive and uniform set of his written and spoken words.

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CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACTTranslation 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

DURING THE fall and winter of 1901, Steiner gave a series of lectures called

“Christianity As Mystical Fact” to members of the Theosophical Society. The lectures were rewritten and issued as a book later that year. They mark a watershed in the development of Western esotericism.

This is a fundamental book, in Stiener’s own development, in that of Western esotericism, and for our understanding of the Christ event. Readers will find the evolutionary development from the ancient Mysteries through the great Greek philosophers to the events portrayed in the Gospels.


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THE ROSICRUCIAN UNITY OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND ART — OCCULT IMAGES, SEALS & PILLARSThe Theosophical Congress of Whitsun 1907Introduction by Christopher Bamford • Translated by Marsha Post


TOPICS INCLUDE: • On the Munich Congress • Rosicrucian Initiation • Planetary and Human Evolution • Remarks

on the Seals of Columns • Report on the Congress • Various 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 illustra-tions.


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WATERThe Element of LifeTHEODOR SCHWENK & WOLFRAM SCHWENK

“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.”

IT IS 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 sen-sory organ that perceives vital cos-mic 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 sug-gest 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.

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 move-ment 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 pub-lic recognition with the publication of Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air.


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THE GREEN SNAKE AND THE BEAUTIFUL LILYA Fairy TaleJOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Illustrated by Hermann Linde Edited by Joan DeRis Allen • Afterword by Paul Marshall Allen

GOETHE’S FAIRY tale is one of the most important stories of mod-ern esotericism. It is a timeless, allegorical tale of initiation and

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 origi-nal 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.

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CHRIST AND SOPHIAAnthroposophic Meditations on the Old Testament, New Testament, and ApocalypseVALENTIN TOMBERG

Introduction by Christopher Bamford

IN THESE astounding meditations on the true Christian nature of

the scriptures, Tomberg shows how 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 human-ity 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 Tom-berg’s anthroposophic meditations on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocalypse. The appendix contains his unfin-ished 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 Gen-esis 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 Hol-land. Under the auspices of the Anthroposophical Society (which he left around 1940), he lectured in Holland and England and wrote extensively on his esoteric understand-ing 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 Devel-opment and Meditations on the Tarot.

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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 LifeVALENTIN TOMBERG

Translated by Robert Powell & James Morgante

DRAWING ON the ancient and often-forgotten sources of esoteric Christianity, Valentin Tomberg reflects on the mysteries of

humanity’s covenant with God in history. The power of these medi-tations is that they reflect the author’s personal spiritual journey into the depths of God’s kingdom within — within the soul, within per-sonal 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 Cre-ation and the Fall and through Moses and the Old Testament Covenant and the Ten Commandments. Part two, on the Ten Commandments, is a medita-tion 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 for-getfulness, sleep, and death to remem-brance, wakefulness, and resurrection. Lazarus thus becomes a paradigm for understanding the spiritual and cul-

tural 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.

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ONE LANGUAGESource of All TonguesDR. ARNOLD D. WADLER

“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

FROM ANCIENT times, we are told in the story of the Tower

of Babel, human beings have been separated by different languages and, consequently, different cul-tures. 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.


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HOW WIDE THE HEARTThe Roots of Peace in Palestine and IsraelMARKO POGACNIK & ANA POGACNIK

IN 2001 Marko Pogacnik and Ana Pogacnik set out on a pilgrim-age with a group interested in geomancy and lasting peace. They

traveled along the archetypal path from the Pyramids across the 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 emo-tional 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 communi-cations also reveal important points in human histo-ry — 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 rees-tablish 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 fur-ther into earth lithopuncture, whose goal is to heal disturbed landscapes and power points. He leads seminars in earth heal-ing in several countries and provides advice on landscape mat-ters 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 archae-ologist and pianist now living in Munich. Ana conducts educational programs and collaborates frequently with her father, Marko Pogacnik, in Earth-healing projects through-out 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-devel-opment and a better understanding of the landscape.


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ONELANGUAGE

source ofall tongues

Dr. Arnold D. Wadler


How Wide the Heart: from the introduction

Ana Pogacnik and Marko Pogacnik

TO MANY of us, it is almost inconceivable that we human beings are capable of vio-

lence and mutual contempt, yet they manifest every day before our very eyes, and unfortu-nately 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 geo-mancy 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 experi-ences, 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:

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 heal-ing 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 leader-ship 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 activ-ity 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

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 spiri-tual 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 photo-copy 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 perspec-tive. 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 fric-tion that result, as well as the danger that arises when we do not approach this connec-tion as independent individuals.

A subsequent section describes how life-energy 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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Mount Zion



THE BIODYNAMIC FARMAgriculture in Service of the Earth and HumanityHERBERT KOEPF

BANKRUPT FARMERS, erosion of topsoil, and poor food quality owing to pesticides, hormones, and other addi-

tives — these are the well-known realities of the modern crisis in farming. This problem is the outcome of the limited vision of conventional methods and a system that focuses exclusively on quick results and profits. The need for changes is clear, and Koepf provides a vast array of research data and results, as well as many helpful details on animal feeding, crop rotation, diseases, pests, and fertilizing. He shows that the biodynamic method of farming and gardening is the alternative that can turn farming around.

Biodynamics is “the oldest alternative agricultural movement in the world” — it could even be argued that it is the oldest agri-cultural method in the world, since it is based on spiritual and common-sense principles that have been used since the dawn of human societies. It approaches the whole farm as a single organism, and its goals are to protect and nurture the soil, improve the quality of food, and integrate the farm organically into the envi-ronment as a whole.

This is an essential reference for all farmers who are unsatisfied with conventional methods and for gardeners who wish to improve the quality of life around them as well as the food they serve their families.

Herbert Koepf was led to pursue formal stud-ies in agriculture as a result of his experience as a farmer. He received his Ph.D. from Germany’s leading agricultural university and later became the head of the School of Biodynamics and Earth Sciences at Emerson College in England. Dr. Koepf has lectured extensively in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. He is also the author of Research in Biodynamic Agriculture: Methods and Results (1993).


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COPING WITH EVILBRUCE H. MCCAUSLAND

MCCAUSLAND ADDRESSES one of the most important topics for all humankind—evil.

The menace of evil seems stronger today than 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 per-petrate 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 under-stand 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 Asso-ciation; elected to Village council of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland; founding president of the Biodynamic Farming and Gar-dening 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.


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A MEASURE OF ENDURANCE

The Unlikely Triumph of Steven SharpWILLIAM MISHLER

“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

THIS IS 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 sixteen-year-old, growing up happily in a tiny farming commu-nity 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 mysteri-ously 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 reas-sure 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 unforget-table read.

William Mishler grew up on a small farm on the outskirts of Cleveland. In 2002, he retired from the University of Minnesota, where he taught Scandana-vian languages, literature, film, and culture. He wrote extensively on these subjects for journals and antholo-gies. In 1989, he was the corecipient of the Richard Wilbur Award for the year’s best volume of translated poetry. His own poems appeared in The Mudfish, Den-ver Quarterly, and Chicago Review. He died December 2002.

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BOOK (HARDCOVER)ALFRED A. KNOPF

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On Steven Sharp From an Interview with Bill Manning

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.

Mr. Manning is a long-time student of Anthroposophy and the work of Owen Barfield. For twelve years, he and William Mishler had been members of an anthroposophic study group, which they helped establish.

B ECAUSE OF my friendship with Bill, he was aware of my case with

Steven Sharp, and when it was over 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 fish-ing. 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 con-tinue 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 min-ister 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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DOSTOEVSKYThe Scandal of ReasonMARIA NEMCOVÁ BANERJEE

PRAISE FOR Dostoevsky: The Scandal of Reason

“An elegant, provocative reading of two of Dostoevsky’s 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.

“Compelling, enlightening, and challenging . . . a brilliant attempt to provide a reasonable, rational, and verbal indictment of reason itself — comprehending and complementing the message of love and gestures of Dostoevsky’s positive heroes.”

—Thomas R. Beyer, professor of Russian language, Middlebury College

“A fascinating meditation, distilled from a lifetime’s study of Dostoevsky. With exquisite tact Maria Banerjee traces the workings of Dostoevsky’s art—and of his thought within and through the art—as she navigates the depths of the masterpieces that initiate and conclude his major period.”

—Donald Fanger, Harry Levin Professor of Literature, emeritus, Harvard University

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.


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NOVEMBER 2006

ROMANTIC RELIGIONR. J. REILLY

“Hats off to Lindisfarne for reissuing R. J. Reilly’s Romantic Religion! . . .This is a splendid book, highly recommended.”

—Philip Zaleski, coauthor of Prayer: A History and editor of the annual Best American Spiritual Writing

WHEN THIS book was first published thirty-five years ago, no one dreamed that Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of

Narnia would one day be box-office hits and their authors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, household names. R. J. Reilly’s remark-ably 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 differ-ences and similarities. Barfield fans will be espe-cially impressed by the author’s ability to clarify Barfield’s condensed prose.

In his compelling new preface, Reilly consid-ers 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 profes-sor 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 two-volume Barnes & Noble Guide to American Literature. He lives with his wife Lena in St. Clair Shores, a lakeside suburb of Detroit.


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HEAVEN ON EARTHA Handbook for Parents of Young ChildrenSHARIFA OPPENHEIMER

A 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 atmo-sphere 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 under-standing 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 pal-ette. 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.

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 Sacra-

mento, 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 kindergar-ten 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 TONEGracia Ricardo’s Approach to Singing,

Based on Her Work with Rudolf SteinerHILDA DEIGHTON • GINA PALERMO • DINA SORESI WINTER

“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

THE AUTHORS introduce a practical, joyful approach to singing that draws its strength and inspiration from Gracia Ricardo’s work

with Rudolf Steiner. 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.


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AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOSOPHYRudolf Steiner’s World ViewL. FRANCIS EDMUNDS

THOUSANDS OF parents send their children to Waldorf schools around the world, and bio-

dynamic farming and anthroposophic medical 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 investi-gated 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 funda-mental 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.

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COSMIC MEMORYThe Story of Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Division of the SexesRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Paul Marshall Allen

Written 1904-1908 (CW 11)

IN THE best tradition of ancient wisdom literature, Cosmic Memory reconstructs, from

the akashic record, events that span the time between the origin of the Earth and the beginning of recorded history. This spiritual research includes a profound investigation of the origins, achievements, and fate of the Atlanteans and Lemurians—the remarkable

“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 connec-tion 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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THE INCARNATION OF AHRIMANThe Embodiment of Evil on Earth

RUDOLF STEINER

AHRIMAN IS a significant figure of Persian mythology. Rudolf Steiner spoke of

Ahriman as a real, living spiritual entity. 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 con-sequences of that event. Just as Christ incar-nated 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 incarna-tion 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.


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GOETHE & PALLADIOGoethe’s study of the relationships between art and nature, leading through architecture to the discovery of the metamorphosis of plantsDAVID LOWE & SIMON SHARP

TAKING AS their basis Goethe’s Italian Journey, the authors of this fascinating and

unusual study explore how Goethe’s experi-ence of Palladio’s architecture influenced his view of the relationship between art and nature and helped him understand meta-morphosis, leading to his discovery of the

“archetypal plant.” Goethe seems to oscillate between expe-

riences 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 archi-tecture 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 har-moniously 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.

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.


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CONVERSATIONA New Theory of LanguageCARL H. FLYGT

Foreword by Madison Smartt Bell

THE THREEFOLD social order was Rudolf Steiner’s conception of an

archetypal social organization that 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 phenom-enon 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.


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THE SECRETS OF METALSWILHELM PELIKAN

IN THE light of spiritual science, Pelikan discusses the significance of the clas-

sic “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 “radia-tion 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.

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.

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MEDITATIONS ON THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIACJOHN JOCELYN

THIS ESOTERIC classic contains medita-tions on each of the twelve signs of

the zodiac. John Jocelyn uses traditional 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 conscious-ness and encourages readers to meet their individual destinies more consciously and courageously and even with gratitude.


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THE NEW MYSTERIESAnd the Wisdom of ChristVIRGINIA SEASE & MANFRED SCHMIDT-BRABANT

IN THE old mystery cultures, indi-viduals experienced themselves

as “children” of the gods, or even 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 engag-ing 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 myster-ies.” 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.

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WHAT IS ANTHROPOSOPHY?SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

Translated by Simon Blaxland de Lange

UNLIKE OTHER 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 cen-tral Christological insights that make up the core of Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy.

What is Anthroposophy? is personal in the sense that it reflects one individ-ual’s efforts to build a connection to Anthroposophy. As Prokofieff states in his preface, “As soon as we comprehend Anthroposophy as some-thing living, we are concerned not merely with defining it intel-lectually 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

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.


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THE HEAVENLY SOPHIA AND THE BEING ANTHROPOSOPHIASERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

Translated by Simon Blaxland de Lange

BASED ON the author’s experience of the suprasensory being behind Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science, this volume is the

culmination of Sergei Prokofieff ’s twenty-five years of work 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 heav-enly Sophia, the divine wisdom.”


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THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVILAnd the Subterranean Spheres of the EarthSIGISMUND VON GLEICH

Introduction by Paul V. O’Leary

WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY after World War II, von Gleich offers a powerful medita-

tion on evil and its eventual transformation. Focusing on the realm of “subnature,” or “the subterranean spheres,” he shows how the vari-ous layers of the Earth’s interior are linked directly to the mystery of evil. The author dis-cusses 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 serv-ing in the army he became ill with lung disease and during convales-cence 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.


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THE FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATIONRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Michael Wilson

3 English translations with the original German (CW 260)

RUDOLF STEINER gave “The Foundation Stone Meditation” as a central tool for develop-

ing the inner life of anthroposophic students. First presented during the reestablishment of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference of 1923, it is a powerful and penetrat-ing meditative text that many consider to be a key to the spiritual mysteries of our time.

This budget-priced pocket version features three alter-native translations (by George Adams, Pauline Wehrle and Richard Seddon), along with the original German verses and an introduction by Michael Wilson.


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CALENDAR OF THE SOULThe Year ParticipatedRUDOLF STEINER

Translated by Owen Barfield

THESE MEDITATIVE verses for each week of the year help awaken a feeling of unity with nature and stimu-

late self-discovery and lead to a greater feeling of unity 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 “sug-gest” rather than simply reproduce the original in exact English translations.


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HOW DO I FIND THE CHRIST?RUDOLF STEINER

1 lecture (CW 182)

HOW DOES one find the Christ today? Steiner emphasizes the importance of working toward knowing one’s true self, or

“I” being, the significance of experiencing powerlessness, and the eventual resurrection from powerlessness.

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.


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THE WORK OF THE ANGEL IN OUR ASTRAL BODYRUDOLF STEINER

1 lecture (CW 182)

STEINER REVEALS that the angels — the spirits closest to human beings — are trying to create images in human

astral bodies. Such images are given for the purpose of 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 tech-nological forces.


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THE DEAD ARE WITH USRUDOLF STEINER

1 lecture (CW 182)

IN THIS important lecture, Rudolf Steiner clearly describes life after death and explains how those on the

Earth can maintain a connection with loved ones who have passed on. He describes the conditions in the environ-ment of the dead; both the advantages and the dangers of con-necting 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.


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TRANSFORMING THE SOUL, VOL. 1RUDOLF STEINER

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

IN A key series of lectures on personal development, Steiner explains that the central mission of spiritual

science is to enable people to ascend, in full conscious-ness, to knowledge of spiritual realities. But, to avoid a distorted understanding and vision of that world, Steiner’s offers preparatory steps — the metamorpho-sis 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 rev-erence; the significance of human character; the meaning of asceticism and illness; and egoism. He explains the differ-ences between Buddhism and Christianity and the goal of spiritual science and, throughout these talks, refers to significant persons such as Augus-tine, 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).


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TRANSFORMING THE SOUL, VOL. 2RUDOLF STEINER

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

IN A 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 consid-ers 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 signifi-cance of language. Throughout these talks, he refers to many key his-torical 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.

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


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THE KARMA OF UNTRUTHFULNESS, VOL. 1Secret Societies, the Media, and Preparations for the Great WarRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Terry M. Boardman

13 lectures, Dornach & Basel, Dec. 4–31, 1916 (CW 173)

A LTHOUGH THESE lectures were given in 1916, they have much to teach us about today’s political spin,

media distortions, propaganda and downright lies—all 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 propa-ganda of the time. His detailed research into the spiritual impulses of human evolution allowed him to reveal the dominant role that secret brother-hoods played in events that culminated in that cata-clysmic 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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THE KARMA OF UNTRUTHFULNESS, VOL. 2Secret Societies, the Media, and Preparations for the Great WarRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Terry M. Boardman

12 lectures, Dornach Jan. 1–30, 1917 (CW 174)

IN VOLUME 2, Rudolf Steiner takes these lectures further, again offering much insight into today’s political spin, media distortions,

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RAISING THE SOUL

Practical Exercises for Personal DevelopmentWARREN LEE COHEN

IN A world of rising tension and stress it is not unusual to feel dominated and

overwhelmed by the life’s events. Here is 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 dili-gently, these simple exercises — which may take only a few minutes per day — are pow-erful 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 dif-ferent 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 devel-opment 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.


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OWEN BARFIELD

Romanticism Come of Age: A BiographySIMON BLAXLAND-DE LANGE

Foreword by Andrew Welburn

OWEN BARFIELD, philosopher, author, poet, and critic, was a founding member of the Inklings group, a private Oxford soci-

ety that included leading literary figures of the time: C. S. Lewis, 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 rela-tionship 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 Transla-tions 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.

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THE BIODYNAMIC FOOD & COOKBOOK

Real Nutrition that Doesn’t Cost the EarthWENDY E. COOK

B IODYNAMICS IS about respect for nature, sus-tainability, and spiritual ecology. But most of

all it is about flavorful, nutritious, enjoyable food! 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 celeb-rities — 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 qualita-tive 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 jour-ney 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 contrib-uted 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 sati-rist 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 enter-taining 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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BEYOND THE MEDICAL MELTDOWN

Working together for Sustainable Health CareROBERT ZIEVE, M.D.

DR. ZIEVE demonstrates that there is enough quality health care and enough money to pay for it, that more

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 manipu-

lated 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, over-controlled 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, anthroposophi-cal medicine, and Neural Therapy. Dr. Zieve is an author (Healthy Medicine, 2005), lecturer, and practitioner of comprehensive medicine, home-opathy, European biological medicine, anthropo-sophical 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.pine-treeclinic.com).

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LEONARDO DA VINCI

The Last Supper A Cosmic Drama and an Act of RedemptionMICHAEL LADWEIN

MANY GREAT 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 aesthet-ics, whereas, for Christians, it epitomizes the intimacy between Christ and his disciples. In recent years — following the pub-lication 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.

Michael Ladwein is an art historian and expert on religions who now conducts art study tours. He is also an author and trans-lator. His published works include Chartres, Ein Führer durch die Kathedrale (“Chartres, A guided tour of the cathedral”) and Rapha-els Sixtinische Madonna (“Raphael’s Sistine Madonna”). Visit his website at www.ladwein-reisen.de.


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THE WILL TO BE FREE

A Philosophy for Young PeopleVALENTIN WEMBER

RATHER THAN trying to prove that we are free, Wember describes a path that enables us to become free — one that depends on

one’s inner activity. We cannot become free, he states, unless we enliven our volitional forces. The author brings his ideas to life by relating them to practical, everyday situations. He offers real assis-

tance 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 Steiner-Waldorf school teacher in Stuttgart, Germany and a writer and lecturer.


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HANDBOOK FOR RHYTHMICAL EINREIBUNGEN

According to Wegman / HauschkaEDITED BY MONICA LAYER

RHYTHMIC EINREIBUNGEN are gentle forms of therapeutic massage that

can be used by nurses, caregivers, and 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 heal-ing method.


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SEKEMA Sustainable Community in the Egyptian DesertDR. IBRAHIM ABOULEISH

Illustrator Markus Kirchgessner

THE EGYPTIAN desert can be a hos-tile place, yet in 1977, Dr. Ibrahim

Abouleish founded a new agricultural 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. Ulti-mately, 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 part-nership 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 com-mercial 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 infor-mation.

Markus Kirchgessner is a professional photog-rapher from Germany. He has traveled widely in the Islamic world and has had several solo exhibitions.

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MYTH OF THE NATIVITYThe Virgin Birth Re-examinedANDREW WELBURN

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)

THE CONCEPTION and birth of Jesus is one of the most mysterious and challenging stories in the Gospels, surrounded by many signs

and miracles. Is it possible to understand the virgin birth in a way 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.

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HOW TO KNOW HIGHER WORLDS

A Modern Path of InitiationTranslated by Christopher Bamford

Written 1904–1905 (CW 10)

THIS IS the classic account of the modern Western esoteric path

of initiation made public by Steiner in 1904. He begins with the premise that “the capacities by which we can understand the higher worlds lie dor-mant 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 prac-tical exercises of inner and outer observation and moral development. By patiently and per-sistently 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: 0880103728BOOK (PAPERBACK)STEINERBOOKS, CLASSICS IN ANTHROPOSOPHY

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ALSO AVAILABLE AS:KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS AND ITS ATTAINMENTTranslated by George Metaxa Revised by Henry Monges &Lisa D. Monges

ISBN: 088010046X


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KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS

How Is It Achieved?Translated by John Davy, & D. S. Osmond


$17.95224 PAGES

INTUITIVE THINKING AS A SPIRITUAL PATH

A Philosophy of FreedomIntroduced by Gertrude Reif Hughes Translated by Michael Lipson

Written 1894 (CW 4)

OF ALL Steiner’s works, this is the one he

believed would have the longest life and the great-est spiritual and cultural consequences.This semi-nal 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-ori-ented 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.

ISBN: 088010385X


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ALSO AVAILABLE AS:THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM

The Basis for a Modern World ConceptionWritten 1894 (CW 4)

Translated by Michael WilsonISBN: 1855840820BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

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THEOSOPHY

An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the CosmosTranslated 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

A KEY WORK for anyone looking for a solid foundation in spiritual reality. Steiner

presents a comprehensive understanding of 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 knowl-edge 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.


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ALSO AVAILABLE AS:THEOSOPHY

An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of ManRUDOLF STEINER

Translated by A. P. ShepherdISBN: 1855841312BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

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Foundational Works by Rudolf Steiner

RUDOLF STEINER considered several of his written works fundamental to the recovery of human dignity, freedom, and wisdom. These foundational books contain the essence of his teachings.


T h e F u n d a m e n t a l s o f A n t h r o p o s o p h y

AN OUTLINE OF ESOTERIC SCIENCETranslated by Catherine E. Creeger

Written 1910 (CW 13)

THIS MASTERWORK of esotericism places

humankind at the very heart of the vast, invis-ible processes of cosmic evolution. When we use the term “natural science,” don’t we mean that we are dealing with human knowl-edge 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 presenta-tion 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 meth-ods and exercises, including the “Rose Cross Meditation,” through which we can attain ini-tiation knowledge.

Perhaps most remarkable and revolutionary of all is the central function that Steiner allots to the Christ and his entrance into earthly evo-lution through the Mystery of Golgotha.


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ALSO AVAILABLE AS:OCCULT SCIENCE

An OutlineTranslated by George Adams & Mary Adams


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The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy

APPROACHES TO ANTHROPOSOPHY

RUDOLF STEINER

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

AN EXCELLENT intro-duction to spiritual

science. Steiner states that Anthroposophy is neither spiritualism nor a revival of ancient esoteric teach-ings, but a genuinely mod-ern spiritual teaching for Western humanity, using scientific methods to inves-tigate spiritual realities by awakening higher perception.


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THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL

His Mission and OursRudolf SteinerSelected by Christopher Bamford

IN 1879, the Archangel Michael resumed direc-

tion of earthly evolution. Steiner articulated Michael’s hope for humanity and his future tasks: the devel-opment of courage, the affirmation of individual-ity, the transformation of knowledge, perception of nature and the cos-mos, the creation of a true world culture, and cognition of Christ.

Includes early lectures about the event of 1879, Michael and Christ, Michael as Archan-gel 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 NatureRUDOLF STEINER

5 talks, The Hague Nov.13–18, 1923 (CW 231)

Introduction & Afterword by Paul Margulies

THE KEY to being at home in the universe

is to comprehend the significance of our indi-vidual 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 conse-quences of our present lives.


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ANTHROPOSOPHY IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Practical Training in ThoughtOvercoming NervousnessFacing KarmaThe Four TemperamentsRUDOLF STEINER

FOUR OF Steiner’s best-loved lectures

are collected in this book — perhaps the most accessible presentations of Anthroposophy avail-able 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 devel-opment.


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LOVE AND ITS MEANING IN THE WORLD

RUDOLF STEINER


ALTHOUGH 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 not-yet.” 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 Stein-er’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 Teach-ing 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.”


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THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL

The Working Together of Three Great Leaders of HumanityBERNARD LIEVEGOED

LIEVEGOED SHARES his thoughts about

three spiritual streams in human evolution led by Rudolf Steiner, Christian Rosenkreutz, and Manu. He explores their karmic con-nections and past lives, how these spiritual streams are active today, and the spiri-tual challenges we will face in the future.

ISBN: 1869890647BOOK (PAPERBACK)HAWTHORN PRESS

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MATERIALISM AND THE TASK OF ANTHROPOSOPHY

RUDOLF STEINER

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

IN TERMS of human con-sciousness, Steiner says

that the world ended in a.d. 300, when it became impos-sible to find spirit in nature. Since then, we have been living in an increasingly spiritual world on a disinte-grating, 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.


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WHAT IS ANTHROPOSOPHY?Three Spiritual Perspectives on Self-KnowledgeRUDOLF STEINER


3 lectures, July 20–22, 1923, Dornach (CW 225)

THESE LECTURES explain why the path of Anthroposophy “unites

what is spiritual in the human being with what is spiritual in the universe.” Steiner describes what hap-pens when we die, showing the relationship between our physical life on Earth and the etheric, astral, and spiritual life of the cos-mos. He also explains how physical lives are completely interwoven with cosmic existence, and how the “missing links” in evolution are spiritual in nature. He demon-strates 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

And other Lectures on Fundamental IssuesRUDOLF STEINER

7 selected lectures

WHAT IS the meaning of Life? Steiner dis-

cusses this ancient enigma with directness, offering profound and enlighten-ing 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 conscious-ness soul and how to listen to the spirit.


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MICHAELMAS AND THE SOUL FORCES OF MANRudolf Steiner4 lectures, Vienna, Sept.–Oct. 1923 (CW 223)

THESE LECTURES were given during Steiner’s first visit to London after the formation

of the Anthroposophical Society in 1913. Steiner speaks of a new kind of autumn festi-val, Michaelmas. Steiner introduces a theme he expanded on in The Four Seasons and the Archangels.


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RUDOLF STEINER SPEAKS TO THE BRITISH

Lectures and Addresses in England and WalesRUDOLF STEINER

THIS VOLUME gives a picture of Steiner’s lively approach to esoteric ideas while in

Britain. It gathers lectures, addresses, and arti-cles. Also includes a list of Steiner’s lectures and addresses in Britain.


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RUDOLF STEINER’S VISION OF LOVE

Spiritual Science and the Logic of the HeartBernard Nesfield-Cookson

STEINER’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 col-lects 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 lecturesRUDOLF STEINER

STEINER DESCRIBES exer-cises for breaking out of

the ordinary consciousness and offers advice on the development of inner quali-ties such as clear thinking, inner tranquillity, and pos-itivity, the necessary founda-tion for esoteric work.

This essential collection will be an invaluable guide for all serious spiritual seekers.


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THE SOURCES OF INSPIRATION OF ANTHROPOSOPHY

SIGISMUND VON GLEICH

CHRIST, KARMA, the Archangel Michael, the Grail, Sophia — whatever has been estab-

lished on 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.


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THE SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION OF MORALITY

Francis of Assisi & the Christ ImpulseRUDOLF STEINER

Translated & introduced by Malcolm Gardner

3 lectures, Norrköping, May 28–30, 1912 (CW 155)

MORAL TEACHING and moral preaching can-

not establish morality. Only 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, devia-tions, 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 vir-tues 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.


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A STUDY COMPANION TO AN OUTLINE OF ESOTERIC SCIENCE

CLOPPER ALMON “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

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE through one of Steiner’s most difficult texts. Almon’s com-

mentary 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.


$10.95128 PAGES

UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN BEING

Selected Writings of Rudolf SteinerRUDOLF STEINER

Edited by Richard Seddon

R ICHARD SEDDON brings together a selec-

tion of Rudolf Steiner’s writings that illustrates his manifold talents and sure eye toward spiritual knowl-edge. 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.


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COMMUNITY LIFE, INNER DEVELOPMENT, SEXUALITY & THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER

Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthroposophical Society, Dornach, 1915RUDOLF STEINER

7 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 10–16, 1915 (CW 253)

THESE LECTURES contains Steiner’s strongest state-

ments on the issues of human relationships within a spiri-tual 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 spe-cial responsibilities and a new way of being.

ISBN: 088010354X


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HARDCOVER; ISBN: 0880103558; $24.95CHANCE, PROVIDENCE & NECESSITY

RUDOLF STEINER

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

CHANCE, NECESSITY, and providence are

related 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.


$10.95148 PAGES

HARDCOVER; ISBN: 0880102616; $20

FREEDOM AS SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY

EDWARD WARREN

THE IDEA of freedom is increasingly connected

to economics, politics, and 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.


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EARTHLY KNOWLEDGE AND HEAVENLY WISDOM

RUDOLF STEINER

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

THERE IS a great differ-ence between the “know

yourself ” 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 uni-verse, rather than “hermits” of the Earth.


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EVIL

Selected LecturesRUDOLF STEINER

STEINER OFFERS an original and complex

picture. He explains that evil 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 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.


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THE EAST IN THE LIGHT OF THE WEST

Two Eastern Streams in the Light of Christian Esotericism, Part 1: Agni YogaSERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

PROKOFIEFF EXAM-INES Agni Yoga as

represented by Helena 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 princi-pal spiritual errors of Agni Yoga. He uncov-ers connections with Lenin and Bolshevik Russia, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Mikhail Gorbachov.


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ESOTERIC STUDIES

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

MARIE STEINER, wife and close pupil of

Rudolf Steiner, was a pio-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.


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ESOTERIC STUDIES

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

DR. VREEDE’S fasci-nating writings give

a vivid picture of her complex personality. She writes with warmth and vigor on subjects as varied as star lore, pyramids, Michaelmas, anthropo-sophic 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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THE GREAT RELIGIONS

Pathways to Our Innermost BeingPIETRO ARCHIATI

TAKING A radical depar-ture from the typical

comparative study of religion, Archiati shows that the various religions represent stages in each individual’s path of devel-opment. In this sense the great religions create an absolute unity, not separa-

tion, 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 real-ity. 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 stud-ied philosophy and theology and worked for many years as a Cath-olic priest. Following a decisive

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 inde-pendently as a freelance lecturer and author for a regeneration of humanity through a modern scientific awareness of spiritual beings and realities.


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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?

IN THESE concentrated, aphoristic lectures, Steiner

shows that there are twelve main philosophical perspec-tives, and that fruitful prog-ress in philosophy depends not on defending one and refuting others, but in learn-ing 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 nar-row-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 contri-butions to human knowledge. Through these insights into the real nature of human think-ing, 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.


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

THIS BOOK was initiated by the Rudolf Steiner

Library, where the librar-ian Fred Paddock long felt the need to make avail-able cutting-edge writings by European anthrop-osophists. It examines the relationship between Anthroposophy and reli-gion, 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.


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AWAKENING TO COMMUNITY

RUDOLF STEINER

10 lectures, Jan.–Mar. 1923 (CW 257)

RUDOLF STEINER presented these

lectures right after the 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 move-ment.Steiner calls for a “searching of conscience.” He explains that in anthroposophic commu-nities 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.


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

THIS STUDY suggests that the impulse of

the Christmas Conference 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.


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THE CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE

For the Foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society 1923/1924RUDOLF STEINER

Introduced by Virginia Sease Foreword and conclusion by Marie Steiner

Conference & Lectures, Dornach (CW 260)

THIS BOOK 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.


$29.95324 PAGES

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 conscious-ness, as we experience it today, has been essen-tially 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

by studying the differences in the human soul life dur-ing the various historical eras. Consciousness con-stantly evolves, and we can-not understand the present unless we understand its origin.

Steiner surveys the develop-ment of memory in human evolution and how people saw themselves and the world in the ancient East and how that understanding mani-fested in the ancient mysteries and influenced modern spiritual life.


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ROSICRUCIANISM & MODERN INITIATION

Mystery Centers of the Middle AgesRUDOLF STEINER

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

STEINER DESCRIBES the changes in con-sciousness for Western humanity since the

ninth 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 self-development of inner capacities.


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THE FOUNDATION STONE / THE LIFE, NATURE & CULTIVATION OF ANTHROPOSOPHY

RUDOLF STEINER

THIS VOLUME brings together two clas-

sics: “The Foundation 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

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 Cultiva-tion 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.


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THE FOUNDATION STONE

WILLEM ZEYLMANS VAN EM-MICHOVEN

DURING THE Christmas Conference, Steiner

presented the “Foundation Stone Meditation.” During that week, he showed how elements of the medita-tion could be rebuilt into new meditations (or “rhythms”) that could be practiced inwardly. The author was pres-ent 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.


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THE CHRISTMAS FOUNDATION

Beginning of a New Cosmic AgeRUDOLF GROSSE

HERE IS an introduction to the spiritual and historical conditions during the restablish-

ment of the General Anthroposophical Society 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 mis-sion while experiencing the nature of that important event.


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FOUNDING A SCIENCE OF THE SPIRIT

RUDOLF STEINER

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

THESE ARE some of Rudolf Steiner’s most

fundamental lectures on spiritual science, offering an excellent introduc-tion to the whole of his teaching as well as valu-able 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; reincarna-tion and karma; good and evil; and the mod-ern path of meditative training. The emphasis throughout is on scientific exposition of spiri-tual phenomena.

Previous edition: At the Gates of Spiritual Science ISBN: 1855840774BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

$22.00168 PAGES

HARMONY OF THE CREATIVE WORD

The Human Being and the Elemental, Animal, Plant & Mineral KingdomsRUDOLF STEINER

12 lectures, Oct. 19–Nov. 11, 1923 (CW 230)

HERE IS an extraordinary panorama of spiritual

knowledge, centered on the human being as a microcosm of cosmic laws and myster-ies. 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 plan-etary and cosmic evolution and introduces us to elemental nature spirits, the beings behind plants and animals. Their relation to human-kind is the harmony of the Creative Word.

Previous edition: Man As Symphony of the Cre-ative Word


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T h e P o c k e t L i b r a r y o f S p i r i t u a l W i s d o m

ATLANTIS

The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge

TOPICS INCLUDE the continent of Atlantis; moving continents; the history of Atlantis;

the earliest civilizations; the beginning of thought; etheric technology; Atlantean magic; divine messengers; Atlantean secret knowledge; the origins of the Mysteries; Atlantis and spiri-tual evolution; and more.

ISBN: 1855840790BOOK (PAPERBACK)SOPHIA BOOKS

$15.95112 PAGES

THE HOLY GRAIL

The Quest for the Renewal of the Mysteries

Topics 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.

ISBN: 185584074X

BOOK (PAPERBACK)SOPHIA BOOKS

$15.9596 PAGES

ALCHEMY

The Evolution of the Mysteries

TOPICS INCLUDE alchemy and the modern mysteries; loss of the divine, the alchemical

quest; mysteries of the metals; the standpoint of human wisdom today; alchemy and con-sciousness; natural alchemy: mercury, sulphur, salt; beyond nature consciousness: the spiritual goal.


$15.95112 PAGES

CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

The Mystery, Teaching and Mission of a Master

TOPICS INCLUDE the mystery of Christian Rosenkreutz, today and in the past; the

guardian of modern knowledge; ancient and modern Rosicrucian teachings; Rosenkreutz at the Chymical Wedding and his cosmic mission; Rosicrucian literature.


$15.9596 PAGES

THE DRUIDS

Esoteric Wisdom of the Ancient Celtic Priests

TOPICS INCLUDE the sun initiation of the Druids; mysteries of ancient Ireland; Celtic

Christianity: Druid heritage: spirit in nature; the great mysteries: the mystery of Christ; the function of the standing stones.


$15.9596 PAGES

THE GODDESS

From Natura to the Divine Sophia

TOPICS INCLUDE the rediscovery of the god-dess Natura; mediaeval thought and the

school of Chartres; the goddess Natura in the ancient mysteries; the goddess in the begin-ning; esoteric Christianity: the virgin Sophia; the search for the new Isis; the renewal of the mysteries; the modern Isis, the divine Sophia.


$15.95112 PAGES

WITH HIS philosophical and scientific training, Rudolf Steiner brought a

systematic discipline to the field of spiri-tual research. A natural seer, he cultivated his spiritual vision, enabling him to speak with authority on previously veiled mys-teries. These small books gather excerpts from his many talks and writings on vari-ous themes, and feature editorial intro-ductions, commentary, and notes.




FROM SUNSPOTS TO STRAWBERRIES

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER

14 discussions with workers, Dornach, June 30–Sept. 24, 1924 (CW 354)

STEINER DISCUSSES sunspots to strawberries! He discusses, among other things: Lemuria

and Atlantis; Chinese and Indian cultures; raw food; vegetarianism; children’s nutrition; farm-ing 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.


$26.00240 PAGES

FROM CRYSTALS TO CROCODILES

Answers to Questions RUDOLF STEINER

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

IN THIS volume, Steiner discusses speech and languages; lefthandedness; dinosaurs;

Lemuria; turtles and crocodiles; oxygen and

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: 185584107X


$22.00192 PAGES

FROM COMETS TO COCAINE

Answers to QuestionsRUDOLF STEINER

18 discussions with workers, Dornach, Oct. 19, 1922–Feb. 10, 1923 (CW 348)

STEINER DISCUSSES 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 thy-roid gland and hormones, beavers, wasps, bees, jaundice, smallpox, rabies.

Previous edition Health and Illness, vols.1 & 2.ISBN: 185584088X


$30.00320 PAGES

FROM BEETROOT TO BUDDHISM


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

TOPICS INCLUDE 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.


$30.00304 PAGES

FROM MAMMOTHS TO MEDIUMS

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

TOPICS INCLUDE dancing and sport, guardian angels, stars, Druids, Aristotle, Catholic

and Masonic rituals, proteins, fats, carbo-hydrates, salts, blood circulation, honesty, boredom, opinions, kidneys, plant and human fertilization.


$30.00328 PAGES

FROM ELEPHANTS TO EINSTEIN


10 discussions with workers, Dornach, January 7–February 27, 1924 (CW 352)

DISCUSSIONS COVER elephants, ants and bees, shells and skeletons, animal and

plant poisons, bodily secretions and nutrition, potatoes, the human eye, fresh and salt water, fish and bird migration, clothing, opium and alcohol.


$22.00288 PAGES

FROM LIMESTONE TO LUCIFER


12 discussions with workers, Dornach, February 17–May 9, 1923 (CW 349)

TOPICS INCLUDE technology, the Earth, heal-ing, color and illness, rainbows, childhood

diseases, seances, sleep, dreams, reincarnation, and more.


$26.00256 PAGES

THE REMARKABLE and informal discus-sions in these volumes took place

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



The Life & Work of Rudolf Steiner

RUDOLF STEINER & the Founding of the New Mysteries

SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

THE AUTHOR investigates the deepest myster-

ies of Steiner’s life and the establishment of new mysteries on Earth dur-ing 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.


$55.00480 PAGES

ILLUSTRATED

A LIFE FOR THE SPIRIT

Rudolf Steiner in the Crosscurrents of Our TimeHENRY BARNES

FEW PEOPLE today rec-ognize Rudolf Steiner’s

name, but those who are 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 his-tory.

ISBN: 0880103957BOOK (PAPERBACK)STEINERBOOKS, VISTA SERIES

$18.95320 PAGES

CORRESPONDENCE & DOCUMENTS1901–1925

RUDOLF STEINER

(CW 262)

UNIQUE INSIGHT both into the development of the

anthroposophic movement 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.


$25.00340 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINER’S PHILOSOPHY

and the Crisis of Contemporary ThoughtANDREW WELBURN

RUDOLF STEINER cre-ated a vast legacy of

practical contributions to cultural, scientific, and spir-itual renewal. And behind it all is a highly developed system of thought that addresses some of the most problematic philosophical issues.

Welburn presents fas-cinating 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 Col-lege, Oxford. He has written, translated, and edited numerous books on spiritual science and early Christianity.

ISBN: 0863154360BOOK (HARDCOVER)FLORIS BOOKS

$49.00288 PAGES

AT THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE

RUDOLF HAUSCHKA

A PERSONAL STUDENT of Steiner, Hauschka presents his autobiography. It is filled with

recollections and insights into the significance of Anthroposophy.


$19.95104 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINER

An Illustrated BiographyJOHANNES HEMLEBEN

THIS CLASSIC biography sheds light on Steiner’s

life — his childhood 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, agricul-ture, religion and architecture; the Christmas Foundation meeting. Also includes a chronol-ogy, personal tributes, an extensive section for further reading, an index, and sixty-nine pho-tographs and illustrations.


$22.00216 PAGES

RUDOLF STEINERAn Introduction to His Spiritual World-View

ROY WILKINSON

IN THESE succinct summaries of Steiner’s thinking — now gathered into a single

volume — we are introduced to aspects of this 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 mis-sion of Christ.


$22.00256 PAGES



T h e L i f e & Wo r k o f R u d o l f S t e i n e r

RUDOLF STEINER Herald of a New Epoch

STEWART EASTON

THIS 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 personal-ity who founded Anthroposophy and whose influence is still increasing seventy-five years after his death.


$16.95376 PAGES

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


IN THIS inspiring lecture addressed to the anthro-

posophical movement, Prokofieff explains why true modern Christian research into karma does not arise out of intellectual speculation, curiosity, or nebulous mystical experi-ences. The process of kar-mic 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, Pro-kofieff 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.


$12.9548 PAGES

MEETING RUDOLF STEINER

Classics Selections From the Journal for AnthroposophyJOAN ALMON, EDITOR

Series editor Robert McDermott

THIS COLLECTION 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.

ISBN: 0967456282BOOK (PAPERBACK)ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN AMERICA

$10.00112 PAGES

TIME OF DECISION WITH RUDOLF STEINER

Experience and EncounterFRIEDRICH HIEBEL

Translated by Maria St. Goar

THIS FASCINATING recol-lection of the early days

of the Anthroposophical Society offers a unique perspective on Rudolf Steiner’s work and his rela-tionship 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 descrip-tions 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.


$19.95390 PAGES

PHILOSOPHY AS AN APPROACH TO THE SPIRIT

An Introduction to the Fundamental Works of Rudolf SteinerRICHARD SEDDON

THE OBJECT of this study is to provide

an overview of Rudolf Steiner’s philosophical work. Though his work was were far ahead of its time, it has remained vir-tually unnoticed by most contemporary philoso-phers. Steiner’s philosophy, which lays the foundation for all that followed, needs to be more widely understood. Because this philosophy describes Steiner’s living expe-riences 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 prob-lems of philosophy since Aristotle was cor-rect. 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.


$18.00144 PAGES

REMINISCENCES OF RUDOLF STEINER

and Work on the First GoetheanumASSYA TURGENIEV

A SSYA TURGENIEV, a colleague of Rudolf Steiner, answers many questions in this first-

hand account of her close relationship with 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.


$26.00144 PAGES


Esoteric Studies

MYSTICS AFTER MODERNISM

Discovering the Seeds of a New Science in the RenaissanceRUDOLF STEINER

Foreword by Christopher Bamford Afterword by Paul M. Allen

Written 1901 (CW 7)

THESE MYSTICS were early giants in the modern art

of illumined self-knowl-edge. Their ways of seeing the world, God, and them-selves 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 seven-teenth centuries who resolved the conflict between inner perceptions and the beginnings of modern science in the new world of indi-vidual 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


$18.95208 PAGES

THE MYSTERIES

Rudolf Steiner’s Writings on Spiritual InitiationRUDOLF STEINER & ANDREW WELBURN

“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

MODERN SCHOLARSHIP knows little of the

ancient mystery schools—hypothetical explanations and outer appearances are its sources. Through his spiritual research, Steiner gives us a penetrating look into the evolution and his-tory of human conscious-ness, 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 develop-ment—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 connec-tion with the Earth, giving a panoramic view of humanity’s past, present, and future.

Andrew Welburn is a fellow of New Col-lege, Oxford. He has written, translated, and edited numerous books on spiritual science and early Christianity.


$40.00208 PAGES

MYSTERY KNOWLEDGE & MYSTERY CENTRES

RUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Andrew Welburn

14 lectures, Dornach, Nov.–Dec., 1923 (CW 232)

STEINER OFFERS descriptions of the ancient mystery schools, surveying the mysteries

of Artemis, Hibernia, Eleusis, Samothrace,

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 cura-tive properties. He outlines the origins of plants and animals and our connection with the Earth, and also gives a panoramic view of human evolution.


$26.00272 PAGES

PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

CARL UNGER

THIS SLIM, challeng-ing volume supports

and extends Steiner’s Anthroposophy and provides a secure foundation in supra-sensory 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.


$4.9580 PAGES

PHILOSOPHY, COSMOLOGY & RELIGION

RUDOLF STEINER

10 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 1922 (CW 215)

STEINER FOCUSES on exercises to attain higher spiritual development, describing

philosophy as based on imagination, cosmology 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.


$9.95190 PAGES



E s o t e r i c S t u d i e s

SPIRITUALISM, MADAME BLAVATSKY & THEOSOPHY

An Eyewitness View of Occult HistoryRUDOLF STEINER

Edited & introduced by Christopher Bamford

WITHOUT THE spiritu-alist movement and

the amazing personality of H. P. Blavatsky, the Theosophical Society, and the spiritual revolution of the twentieth century, today’s spiritual move-ments would be unimagi-nable. 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 Theosophi-cal movement, Steiner, as a major participant, goes into occult history and the roots of Theosophy in Western esotericism, especially Rosicrucianism, secret societies, and the hid-den history behind the creation of Theosophy in the nineteenth century.


$24.95288 PAGES

SECRET BROTHERHOODS

And the Mystery of the Human DoubleRUDOLF STEINER

7 lectures, various cities, Nov. 1917 (CW 178)

THE IDEA that secret groups are trying to

gain control of humanity is no longer in doubt. But this was not understood in 1917, when Rudolf Steiner spoke of these matters in these extraordi-nary lectures. His unique contribution to this con-

troversial 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, tech-nology, 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 doppel-ganger) and the dangers of psychoanalysis; the spiritual origin of electromagnetism; the abuse of inoculations and vaccinations; the meaning of Ireland for world development; confused

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.


$26.00240 PAGES

ROSICRUCIAN WISDOM

An IntroductionRudolf Steiner14 lectures, Munich, May 22–June 6, 1907 (CW 99)

BASED ON the stream of Rosicrucian teach-

ing—not old ideas of tradition, but a wholly new contribution from spiritual research—Steiner portrays the Rosicrucian path as the most appropriate for mod-ern 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 RosicruciansISBN: 1855840634BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

$22.00194 PAGES

THE TEMPLE LEGEND Freemasonry and Related Occult Movements: From the Contents of the Esoteric SchoolRUDOLF STEINER

20 lectures, Berlin, 1904–1906 (CW 93)

IN THESE unique lectures to members of his Eso-

teric School (1904–1914), Steiner reveals the hid-den meaning of images in myths, sagas, and legends, and clarifies the history and nature of the cultic tradition. He discusses Freemasonry and its back-ground, the Rosicrucians, Manicheism, the Druids, the Golden Legend, Cain and Abel, and much more. Includes extensive publisher’s notes.


$35.00408 PAGES

THE THREEFOLD NATURE OF DESTINY LEARNING

COENRAAD VAN HOUTEN

THE AUTHOR extends his earlier works—Practising Destiny and Awakening the Will—and

the path of adult education he calls “destiny 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.


$15.9580 PAGES

THE FUTURE IS NOW

Anthroposophy at the New MillenniumSEVAK GULBEKIAN, EDITOR

THESE EIGHTEEN essays offer thoughts on where Anthroposophy in its earthly

manifestation now stands and to what extent 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.Nesfield-Cookson, S. Prokofieff, R. Seddon, N. Thomas, P. Tradowsky, H. P. Manen, E. Warren, and O. Whicher.


$26.00272 PAGES

THE REDEMPTION OF THINKING

A Study in the Philosophy of Thomas AquinasRUDOLF STEINER

3 lectures, Dornach, May 1920 (CW 74)

STEINER DESCRIBES the background of early Christian thought, from which the

scholastic philosophers arose. He then focuses 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 per-ception, today’s “true Christianity.”


$12.95191 PAGES


E s o t e r i c S t u d i e s

TOWARD IMAGINATION

Culture and the IndividualRUDOLF STEINER

7 lectures, Berlin, June 6–July 18, 1916 (CW 169)

STEINER VIVIDLY con-fronts us with the dead

end to which materialism has brought modern civ-ilization. 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.


$12.955 ½ X 8 ½192 PAGES

ISBN: 0880102845 HARDCOVER $24.95TRANSFORMING EARTH— TRANSFORMING SELF

CARLO PIETZNER

THE DEVELOPMENT of consciousness, the inti-

mate relationship between 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: 0880104287BOOK (PAPERBACK)CAMPHILL PUBLICATIONS

$16.95224 PAGES

REALITY, TRUTH & EVIL

Facts, Questions, and Perspectives on September 11, 2001T. H. MEYER

USING THE events of September 11, 2001, and Pearl Harbor as his backdrop, Meyer

studies the issues of reality, truth, and evil. He shows that U. S. political practice under the influence of secret societies such as Skull and Bones is based on an ideology of polarity, con-flict, and what Huntington famously referred to as a “clash of civilizations.”

In contrast to the divisive thinking and “conflict management” of leading representa-tives 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 over-coming conflict.

THOMAS H. MEYER is the founder of Per-seus Verlag, Basel, and is editor of the monthly journal Der Europäer.

ISBN: 190263666X

BOOK (PAPERBACK)TEMPLE LODGE

$22.00160 PAGES

TRANSPARENT REALITIES

HANS PETER VAN MANEN

THE FIRST part explores the role of spiritual sci-

ence and spiritual impulses 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.


$12.9564 PAGES

TRUMPET TO THE MORN

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

THE COLLECTION of articles brings out new

anthroposophical research 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: 0953160033BOOK (PAPERBACK)EMERSON COLLEGE

$15.00134 PAGES

WORKING WITH DESTINY IIThe Golden Blade 1998 WILLIAM FORWARD, SIMON BLAXLAND-DE LANGE & ANDREW WOLPERT, EDITORS

THIS COLLECTION is devoted to taking charge of destiny by understanding, in practi-

cal ways, one’s karmic stream. Contributors include Owen Barfield, Baruch Urieli, Christopher Clouder, Trui Derwig, Elizabeth Atwell, and others.

ISBN: 0953160009BOOK (PAPERBACK)GOLDEN BLADE

$12.9598 PAGES

THE ULTIMATE COMMUNION OF MANKIND

A Celebration of Rudolf Steiner’s Book “The Philosophy of Freedom”KAREN SWASSJAN

SWASSJAN’S SPARKLING humor, wit, and lively style make this a thoroughly unique

discourse on what is perhaps Steiner’s most important work. Brilliant insight and compre-hensive scholarship.


$19.95112 PAGES

MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM

RUDOLF STEINER

11 lectures, Vienna, March 1910 (CW 119)

HUMAN LIFE alternates between the great

outer macrocosm and the hidden inner microcosm. Steiner discusses the vari-ous paths of inner devel-opment that lead to cross-ing these two thresholds and the transformation of soul forces into spiritual organs of perception.


$10.955 ½ X 8 ½208 PAGES

ISBN: 0880102012 HARDCOVER $20.00



ENLIVENING THE CHAKRA OF THE HEART

The Fundamental Spiritual Exercises of Rudolf SteinerFLORIN LOWNDES

MEDITATION IS the foundation of every

spiritual path. As protec-tion against the dangers of meditation, Steiner sug-gested exercises to promote inner certainty by develop-ing 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 archi-tectural art and design. He coauthored The Human Life and founded the Center of Heart Thinking in Boston.


$22.00208 PAGES

ESOTERIC DEVELOPMENT

Lectures and WritingsRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Stephen Usher

HERE IS an orderly sequence of statements

by Steiner on the develop-ment of higher, suprasen-sory 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.


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ANTHROPOSOPHY & THE INNER LIFE

RUDOLF STEINER

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

THESE LECTURES were given to an audience

of seasoned students of Anthroposophy; never-theless, Rudolf Steiner described this course as “introductory.”

As the wide-ranging content reveals, Steiner’s gaze was clearly fixed on Western humanity in gen-eral. 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 perspec-tives. 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 condi-tion, especially our inner nature. He encour-ages 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 des-tiny; and phases of memory and the true self.

This is essential reading for all serious stu-dents of Anthroposophy.

Previous edition: Anthroposophy: An Introduction.ISBN: 0854403876BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

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GUIDANCE IN ESOTERIC TRAINING

From the Esoteric SchoolRUDOLF STEINER

Talks & writings, 1903–1913 (CW 245)

SELECTED FROM mate-rial given by Rudolf

Steiner to members of his esoteric school (1904–1914), this volume features exer-cises, meditations, and practices for spiritual self-development. 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, includ-ing several articles on inner development and the obstacles one faces on the way to true self-awareness.

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.


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WORKING WITH ANTHROPOSOPHY

The Practice of ThinkingGEORG KÜHLEWIND

THE GOAL of this study is to cultivate an expe-

rience of living, intui-tive thinking, such as we experience with each fresh understanding. Kühlewind tells us that this unique contribution to the prac-tice of Anthroposophy has a twofold purpose: “to stimulate working with spiritual science through exercises, and to stimulate indepen-dent 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 stu-dents along the path made public by Rudolf Steiner. As with all of Kühlewind’s works, this book brings new insights with each reading.


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Inner Development


I n n e r D e v e l o p m e n t

B e s t s e l l e rs !

THE SEER’S HANDBOOK

A Guide to Higher PerceptionDENNIS KLOCEK

A SEER “SEES’ more than meets the eye, using

the eyes of the soul along with the physical eyes. As all seeing is a form of cognition, higher see-ing 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 aware-ness is our great gift and our greatest challenge. These practices begin right where we are in life and take us through the levels of concentra-tion; 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 com-munity 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 Pro-gram (“Goethean Studies”) since 1992.


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STAIRWAY OF SURPRISE Six Steps to a Creative LifeMICHAEL LIPSON, PH.D.

“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

THIS BOOK will open your life to the surprising

profoundness of the simple and near-at-hand. For most of us, life is often a hum-drum course of the same-old and the nothing-new. We may dream about run-ning away to exotic lands or retreating to distant monasteries, but the whirligig of life won’t let us out of its clutches.

Michael Lipson offers a fresh way of look-ing at this old predicament. Using exercises pioneered by the great spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner, he gives ancient yet very timely keys to freshening our perceptions and opening our horizons. The six steps on this stairway are thinking, doing, feeling, loving, opening, and thanking. If they sound simple, that’s because—in a way—they are. They show us how to infuse consciousness and mindfulness even into ordinary and overlooked parts of life.

By practicing these exercises for a few min-utes each day, we can discover the surprise in the universe, which is usually hidden from us by our stale, habitual attitudes.

Michael Lipson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist practicing in Great Barrington, Massa-chusetts. He is the translator of Rudolf Steiner’s Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path (SteinerBooks) and Georg Kühlewind’s From Normal to

Healthy (Lindisfarne Books). Dr. Lipson’s work combines the insights of Rudolf Steiner with those of Zen Buddhism. He teaches medita-tion widely and writes on issues of conscious-ness, human development, and meditative practice.


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START NOW!A Book of Soul and Spiritual ExercisesMeditation Instructions, Meditations, Exercises, Verses for Living a Spiritual Year, Prayers for the Dead & Other Practices for Beginning and Experienced PractitionersRUDOLF STEINER

Selected and introduced by Christopher Bamford

RUDOLF STEINER’S accomplishments

in so many fields make 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, medita-tions, 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 — Rosicru-cian, 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!


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Myth, Evolution & History

ANCIENT MYTHS & THE NEW ISIS MYSTERY

RUDOLF STEINER

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

STEINER LOOKS 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 suprasen-sory experience, and how we must bring new life to our abstract ways of know-ing 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 chal-lenges 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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EGYPTIAN MYTHS AND MYSTERIES

RUDOLF STEINER

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

STEINER REVEALS the deep spiritual con-

nection 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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ASPECTS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

RUDOLF STEINER

Foreword by J. Leonard Benson

8 lectures, Berlin May–July 1917 (CW 176)

STEINER SHOWS that the soul’s natural develop-

ment stops around the age of twenty-seven. After that, nothing happens for our inner being, so that life becomes a kind of mum-mification, unless we learn to develop inwardly. He explains how to exert think-ing and feeling to keep the soul alive and growing. Ultimately, this is the only way we can make this incarnation suc-cessful. Through such effort, we continue to develop inwardly until a very advanced age, each year, becoming richer and more interest-ing 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.


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ISBN: 0880102519 HARDCOVER $18THE KARMA OF 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

Rudolf Steiner examines the effects of scientists’ failure to examine thinking

itself since the beginning of the so-called scientific revolution. This has led to a materi-alistic 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.


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THE SECRET STREAM

Christian Rosenkreutz & RosicrucianismRUDOLF STEINER

Edited & introduced by Christopher Bamford

THIS VOLUME collects all of Steiner’s discus-

sions of the Rosicrucians, 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 mis-sion 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.


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THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD AND OF HUMANITY

RUDOLF STEINER

13 lectures, Penmaenmawr, Wales, Aug. 1923

THESE LECTURES were given in Wales at the

International Summer 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

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M y t h , E v o l u t i o n & H i s t o r y

DESTINIES OF INDIVIDUALS AND OF NATIONS

RUDOLF STEINER

14 lectures, Berlin 1914–1915 (CW 157)

STEINER STARTED each of these lectures, given

during World War I, with 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 spir-its. Also included are lectures on the three stages of imaginative knowledge, the rhythm of sleeping and waking, the rela-tion 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.


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HISTORY IN ENGLISH WORDS OWEN BARFIELD

Foreword by W. H. Auden

BARFIELD’S THOUGHT-PROVOKING works have

made him a legendary figure. History in English Words, his classic historical excursion through the English lan-guage, is back in print after many years. It is a brief and brilliant history of the peoples who have spoken the Indo-European tongues, illus-trated 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 con-sciousness, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idola-try, was named among the 100 “Best Spiritual Books of the Century.”


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THE GREAT INITIATES

A Study of the Secret History of ReligionsEDOUARD SCHURÉ

THIS COMPREHENSIVE overview of history

encompasses centuries 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.


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MYSTERY OF THE UNIVERSE

The Human Being, Model of CreationRUDOLF STEINER

16 lectures, Dornach, April–May 1920 (CW 201)

WHAT IS the ultimate secret of the universe?

In these eloquent lectures, Steiner describes the human being as the model of cre-ation 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 micro-cosm 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 UniverseISBN: 1855840693BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

$24.00240 PAGES

LIGHT FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Rudolf Steiner’s Association with Helmuth and Eliza von Moltke—Letters, Documents & After-Death CommunicationsT. H. MEYER, EDITOR

THIS COLLECTION of letters and documents

deals with themes of tremendous significance for today—the third mil-lennium; karma and rein-carnation; 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.

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THE SPIRITUAL EVENT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Occult Significance of the 12 Years, 1933–45 in the Light of Spiritual ScienceJESAIAH BEN-AHARON

BEN-AHARON GIVES a first-hand testimony on Steiner’s view of the new Christ revela-

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-pres-ent 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.


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OCCULT HISTORY

Historical Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritual ScienceRUDOLF STEINER

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

STEINER ILLUSTRATES this through important his-

torical individuals, including Plato, Copernicus, Raphael, and Galileo, discussing their influence in changing the cultural and intellectual cli-mate of the various ages. He demonstrates the inadequacy of viewing history only from a temporal and spatial per-spective, emphasizing the need to recognize the deeper meaning of historical events dis-closed in myths and in the spiritual impulses behind them.

ISBN: 085440371X


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THE MYSTERIES OF THE EAST AND OF CHRISTIANITY

RUDOLF STEINER

4 lectures, Berlin, February 3–7, 1913 (CW 144)

STEINER GIVES a sketch of the evolution of the mys-

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

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THE OCCULT MOVEMENT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

RUDOLF STEINER

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

WAYS OF thinking and their spiritual and social structures in any period are not

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.

ISBN: 0854402802BOOK (HARDCOVER)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

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THE PRINCIPLE OF SPIRITUAL ECONOMY

RUDOLF STEINER

11 lectures, 1909 (CW 109)

THESE TALKS reveal a particular aspect of

how human beings have been guided spiritually throughout history—by the life forces and astral bodies of the great initi-ates 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 elevat-ing 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.”


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POLARITIES IN THE EVOLUTION OF MANKIND

West & East; Materialism & Mysticism; Knowledge & BeliefRUDOLF STEINER

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

STEINER DISCUSSES the polarities of West and East, materialism

and mysticism, knowledge 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.


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NECESSITY AND FREEDOM

RUDOLF STEINER

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

STEINER ILLUMINATES the questions of

freedom and necessity, guilt and innocence. He includes questions of evolution, history, and culture, showing how and where human beings carry responsibility for these developments.


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THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE

ROY WILKINSON

THE AUTHOR surveys language, going back to

a time when people still understood its spiritual roots. Wilkinson enthusi-astically shows the many layers of language and how spiritual science once again helps us to truly understand the language we use.


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

PROKOFIEFF USES Steiner’s spiritual

research to look behind history. He shows that human conscience arose from ancient, hidden mys-tery 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.”


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M y t h , E v o l u t i o n & H i s t o r y


L i f e a f t e r D e a t h

THE TENSION BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

RUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Owen Barfield

10 lectures, Vienna, June 1–11, 1922 (CW 83)

BY ASCRIBING to human thinking only a shad-

owy, subjective validity, modern science tries to invalidate the very faculty that gives us our human dignity. At the same time, however, this “unreal-ity” 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 begin-ning 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.


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THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE EARTH

As Foreseen by Rudolf SteinerRICHARD SEDDON

RUDOLF STEINER sys-tematically cultivated

methods of spiritual vision and research, which enabled him to investigate the course of human evolu-tion. 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 far-future 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 transfor-mation 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 Wittgen-stein—at Cambridge.


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Life after Death

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER

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

AMAZING COMMUNICA-TIONS from a young

musician named Sigwart to 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, mes-sages 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.


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CROSSING THE THRESHOLD

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

WRITING FROM the perspective of Steiner’s spiritual philosophy, the authors suggest

ways of coping with the time leading up to death and the period afterward. They examine

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.


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LIGHT BEYOND THE DARKNESS

How I Healed My Suicide Son after His DeathDORÉ DEVERELL

Foreword by George Ritchie

D EVERELL’S SON Richard led a difficult life of

physical and mental illness and depression. His sui-cide 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 real-ity—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 spiri-tual development. She has two children and three grandchildren.


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LIFE BETWEEN DEATH AND REBIRTH

RUDOLF STEINER


IN THESE lectures Steiner deals with the experiences

of the human soul during and after death. On the basis of precise clairvoyant obser-vations, 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 conscious-ness—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

ALTHOUGH WESTERN humanity has conquered

the outer world through 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 conscious-ness 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.


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A RAINBOW OVER THE RIVER

Experiences of Life, Death & Other WorldsVERONIKA VAN DUIN

FOR MANY 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 jour-neys 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 chil-dren with special needs and leads seminars and workshops for homemakers.


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THRESHOLDS

Near-Life ExperiencesGABRIEL BRADFORD MILLAR, EDITOR

PEOPLE RETURNING to life from serious acci-

dents sometimes describe near-death experiences. Thresholds gathers a variety of accounts of “near-life” experiences.

This is a book of ordi-nary revelation whose aim is to help readers respect the authority of their own profound life experiences.

ISBN: 186989068X

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ONE STEP AT A TIME

Mourning a ChildBETTY MADILL

FOR THE many thou-sands of parents,

friends, and relatives strug-gling to come to terms with the loss of a child, this book is an invaluable source of comfort. Written from her personal experi-ence, One Step at a Time combines Betty Madill’s own sensitive recommen-dations with recognized bereavement counsel-ling 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.


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THOUGH YOU DIE

Death and Life beyond DeathSTANLEY DRAKE

Revised by Peter Van Brede

STANLEY DRAKE, who was a Christian

Community priest in 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 spiri-tual 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.


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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,

HOW CAN we prepare for death? How can

we help others at the death 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.


$17.95160 PAGES

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

SCHILLING’S FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD daughter,

Saskia, died instantly 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.


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B E S T S E L L E R

STAYING CONNECTEDHow to Continue Your Relationships with Those Who Have DiedRUDOLF 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

THE IDEA 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 col-lects 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 cur-rent of life.

We learn, too, of the many ways discar-nate 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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Christopher Bamford is the editor in chief of SteinerBooks and its imprints. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he lec-tures and writes widely on West-ern spiritual and esoteric tradi-tions. 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). HarperSanFran-cisco 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 WestIntroduction by Philip Zaleski

TWO POWERFUL motives weave

beneath the surface of our spiritual history: the desire to know and the desire to love. The secret history of the West is the story of saints, mys-tics, alchemists, poets, and philosophers try-ing 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: 1930337078BOOK (PAPERBACK)CODHILL PRESS

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KARMIC RELATIONSHIPS SERIES

RUDOLF STEINER

NEAR THE end of his life, Steiner assumed his special destiny: to awaken the West to

reincarnation and karma. He gave more than 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 112 lectures, Dornach, Feb. 16–Mar. 23, 1924 (CW 235)

An overview of karma. Considers the incar-nations of Friedrich Nietzsche, Lord Bacon of Verulam, Lord Byron, and many others.

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Volume 216 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.


Volume 311 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.


Volume 411 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.


Volume 57 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.


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.

ISBN: 085440242X

BOOK (HARDCOVER)$29.95184 PAGES

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

Focuses on human experiences after death and before rebirth; karma in world history; the cosmic nature of Christ; waking, dream-ing, sleeping; and the physical effects of karma.


Volume 86 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.


Reincarnation & Karma

REINCARNATION AND KARMA

Two Fundamental Truths of ExistenceRUDOLF 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

IN THESE important lec-tures 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 reincarna-tion and karma affects our moral life.


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REINCARNATION AND IMMORTALITY

RUDOLF STEINER

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

WITH A short introduc-tion 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 con-tinuation of life in the spiri-tual 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 reincar-nation and karma.


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S p i r i t Wo r l d s & B e i n g s

MANIFESTATIONS OF KARMA

RUDOLF STEINER

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

WHY DO 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 recogniz-ing that karma is always being resolved. Many areas of individual and world karma are dis-cussed in this exciting volume.


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A WESTERN APPROACH TO REINCARNATION AND KARMA

Selected Lectures & Writings RUDOLF STEINER

Edited & introduced by René QueridoForeword by Robert McDermott

RENÉ QUERIDO presents an overview of the

Western perspective of 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, nat-ural 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.

ISBN: 088010399X

BOOK (PAPERBACK)STEINERBOOKS, VISTA SERIES

$16.95224 PAGES

REINCARNATION IN MODERN LIFE

Toward a New Christian AwarenessPIETRO ARCHIATI

ARCHIATI DESCRIBES Rudolf Steiner’s

approach to reincarna-tion — one that is wholly relevant to Western con-sciousness and steeped in true Christianity. By apply-ing 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 under-stand theological problems such as Christ’s Resurrection and the resurrection of the body from this wider context.


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YOUR REINCARNATING CHILD

Welcoming a Soul to the WorldGILBERT CHILDS & SYLVIA CHILDS

THE AUTHORS offer sound advice for all those who

spend time with children on how they can welcome those souls into the world and help them grow to become healthy, responsible adults. Mainstream educa-tional 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.


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Spirit Worlds & Beings

ANGELS

Selected LecturesRUDOLF STEINER

Translated by A.R. Meuss

RELIGIOUS AND spiritual writings have always

referred to beings from the 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 influ-ence 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


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CHILDREN WHO COMMUNICATE BEFORE THEY ARE BORN

Conversations with Unborn SoulsDIETRICH BAUER, MAX HOFFMEISTER & HARTMUT GOERG

EXPECTANT MOTHERS often experience a deep

connection to their unborn child, knowing the baby’s appearance, character, or life path before giving birth. Many mothers are protective of such experi-ences and are unwilling to speak of them. The accounts here, gathered by three medical doc-tors, 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.


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NATURE SPIRITS & WHAT THEY SAY

Interviews with Verena HolsteinWOLFGANG WEIRAUCH, EDITOR

IN THESE 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.

ISBN: 086315462X

BOOK (PAPERBACK)FLORIS BOOKS

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NATURE SPIRITS

Selected Lectures RUDOLF STEINER

BASED ON clairvoyant knowledge, Steiner

explains that folk tradi-tions 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, leg-end, 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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WHAT THE ANGELS NEED TO TELL US NOW

Receiving, Considering & Acting on Their MessagesIRENE JOHANSON

THE BOOK 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 guid-ance 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.


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MORE MESSAGES FROM THE ANGELS Preparing to Receive, Verifying and Confirming the TruthIRENE JOHANSON

IN THE first section, Johanson offers valuable

advice for the required inner preparation for receiving angelic messages properly. She explains how to distin-guish 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, includ-ing organ transplants, genetic modification, cloning, mad cow disease, nuclear energy, evil, catastrophes and disasters (including Septem-ber 11), abortion, and more.


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GUARDIAN ANGELS

Connecting with Our Spiritual Guides & HelpersRUDOLF STEINER

Collected by Margaret Jonas

TRADITION TELLS many stories of angelic

intervention in human 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 knowl-edge 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.


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ENCOUNTERS WITH ANGELS

DAN LINDHOLM

MANY PEOPLE have expe-rienced moments in

life when they have felt an 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 encoun-ters from sources in various countries.

ISBN: 086315137X

BOOK (HARDCOVER)FLORIS BOOKS

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R e i n c a r n a t i o n & K a r m a


Esoteric Christianity

ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

The Gospel of Christ’s HumanityRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Richard Smoley

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

FOR CENTURIES, people have been baffled by the

varying accounts of Christ’s life in the four Gospels. Steiner addresses this ques-tion, showing how each presents a different lens onto Christ’s life and mes-sage. 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 cen-turies, even millennia, to the legendary civiliza-tion 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.ISBN: 0880105046BOOK (PAPERBACK)STEINERBOOKS

$25.00240 PAGES

ACCORDING TO LUKE The Gospel of Compassion and Love RevealedRUDOLF STEINER

10 lectures, Basel, Sept. 15–26, 1909 (CW 114)

Introduction by Robert McDermott

STEINER REVEALS in these lectures the sig-

nificance of the Christ for the spiritual develop-ment 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 tradi-tions and the Mystery of Golgotha.

Previous translation: The Gospel of St. Luke.ISBN: 0880104880BOOK (PAPERBACK)STEINERBOOKS

$16.95224 PAGES

GENESIS

Secrets of CreationRUDOLF STEINER

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

Introduction by B. Urieli; Translated by P. Wehrle

FROM DIRECT spiritual perception, Steiner pres-

ents a perspective on creation beyond the polarized argu-ments between creationists and scientific reduction-ists. 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 charac-ter of the Hebrew language.

Includes a previously unpublished introduc-tory lecture on the meaning of mystery drama.


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THE GOSPEL OF ST. MARK

RUDOLF STEINER

10 lectures, Basel, Sept. 1912 (CW 139)

Introduction by Stewart Easton

ACCORDING TO Steiner, Mark was especially able to reveal Christ as

a cosmic being of greatness and power. Having been a student of Peter, he moved to Alexandria at a time when Jewish philosophy and the-ology was at it’s peak and absorbed the best aspects and views of pagan gnosis. Mark learned how human-kind arose from the spiritual world and how luciferic and ahrimanic forces are absorbed into human souls. He was able to accept every-thing 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.


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B a ck i n P r i n t !

THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN

RUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Marie Steiner-von Sivers Translated by Maud B. Monges

12 lectures, Hamburg, May 5-31, 1908 (CW 103)

DURING PENTECOST 1908—seven years

after he had given the world his book Christianity as Mystical Fact—Steiner began his great work of renewing humanity’s understand-ing 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 myster-ies 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.


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BACKGROUND TO THE GOSPEL OF ST. MARK

RUDOLF STEINER

13 lectures, 1910–1911 (CW 124)

STEINER STRESSES the relationship between

Mark’s gospel and the “language of the macro-cosm.” He also discusses the two main streams of post-Atlantean civ-ilization, the purpose of our time, the laws of rhythm in the soul and spirit, and much more.


$12.95220 PAGES



Edward Reaugh (pronounced “Ray”) Smith 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

THIS REMARKABLE Bible commentary incorpo-rates the spiritual insights of Anthroposophy.

Smith combines his extensive knowledge of traditional biblical scholarship with years of con-centrated study of Steiner’s works. The Burning Bush deviates from the normal commentary mode, pre-senting 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.


$29.95800 PAGES

DAVID’S QUESTION

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

THE MODEL for a union of science and religion is Steiner’s spiritual science. Sensory phenomena

show us the physical world. By allowing phenomena to speak to us instead of sinking into abstract theo-ries, 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).


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THE SOUL’S LONG JOURNEY

How the Bible Reveals Reincarnation

SMITH PRESENTS his amazing insights, showing how reincarnation is deeply and powerfully

revealed in the Bible’s most fundamental aspects. How and why have these insights escaped atten-tion 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 provi-sions 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.


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THE INCREDIBLE BIRTHS OF JESUS

SMITH BRINGS 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.


$9.95112 PAGES

THE DISCIPLE WHOM JESUS LOVED

Unveiling the Author of John’s Gospel

SMITH REVEALS the identity of John and Christian initiation in a new way that is both

suggestive and conclusive. This small book is a 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.


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Books by Edward Reaugh Smith


THREEFOLD MARY

EMIL BOCK

Afterword by Michael Debus

EMIL 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 mean-ing 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 reli-gious renewal, which he led from 1938 until his death.

ISBN: 088010533X


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THE APOCALYPSE OF SAINT JOHN

EMIL BOCK

JOHN’S RICH, pictorial 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.


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SAINT PAUL

Life, Epistles, and TeachingEMIL BOCK

BOCK’S STUDY gives a truly spiritual dimension to Paul’s background, offering a deeper under-standing of this great Christian and his teaching. He shows that Paul car-ried 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.

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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THE THREE YEARS

The Life of Christ between Baptism & AscensionEmil Bock

THE AUTHOR rediscov-ers the healings and

miracles of Christ for the skeptical mind without minimizing the inherent difficulties for modern minds. He brings together historical records and geo-graphical 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.


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THE RHYTHM OF THE CHRISTIAN YEAR

Renewing the Religious Cycle of FestivalsEMIL BOCK

RELIGIOUS LIFE was once deeply embed-

ded in the natural world, but today only Christmas and Easter remain as vague remind-ers 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 medita-tions to help us take up this spiritual respon-sibility.


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C o m i n g S p r i n g 2 0 0 7 N o w i n Pa p e r b a ck

KINGS AND PROPHETS

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

BOCK SHOWS that the true pulse of

the spirit of the age 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.

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E s o t e r i c C h r i s t i a n i t y

THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN

Lectures on the Book of RevelationRUDOLF STEINER

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

“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

STEINER SHOWS that the messages to the seven

churches and the unsealing 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 num-ber of the beast —all take on new meaning.


$25.00240 PAGES

ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

And the Mission of Christian RosenkreutzRUDOLF STEINER

WITH AN intimate knowledge of his sub-

ject, Steiner brings esoteric, or Rosicrucian, Christianity into the light. He shows the influence of Christ’s power through history, the func-tion and effects of karma, the role of the Buddha and bodhisattvas, and the vital work of Christian Rosenkreutz, Jeshu ben Pandira, and more.


$30.00336 PAGES

FROM JESUS TO CHRIST

RUDOLF STEINER

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

Steiner describes the prob-lematic aspects of Christian theology, such as the resur-rection of the physical body. He emphasizes the esoteric path to Christ and encour-ages us to awaken to the new revelation manifesting in our time—the Christ as “Lord of Karma.”


$22.00208 PAGES

THE MYSTERY OF THE TWO JESUS CHILDREN

And the Descent of the Spirit of the SunBERNARD NESFIELD-COOKSON

THE GOSPELS give two different genealogies for

Jesus, and two accounts of 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.


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THE MYSTERY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST & JOHN THE EVANGELIST AT THE TURNING POINT OF TIME

An Esoteric StudySERGEI 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

IN THIS brief, enlightening book, Prokofieff addresses the mystery of the “two Johns”

solving many unanswered questions. In par-ticular, he throws light on issues of “incarna-tion 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.


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THE FIFTH GOSPEL

From the Akashic RecordRUDOLF STEINER


FROM HIS clairvoyant reading of the akashic record — the

cosmic memory of all events, actions, and thoughts — Steiner was able to speak about aspects of the life of Jesus Christ not found in the four bib-lical 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 epi-sodes from the akashic record.


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THE CHRISTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Accompanying Their Journey after DeathMARGAREET VAN DEN BRINK & HANS STOLP

MANY WHO have had “near death” experi-ences tell of a world of light, others tell

of profound encounters with deceased friends 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.


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THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY

Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation, and the Christian VisionANDREW WELBURN

THE ESOTERIC current of early Christianity

is reflected in the New Testament writings of Mark, Paul, and, above all, John. Gnostic Christians tried to preserve this tra-dition, 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 myster-ies, 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 mean-ing of Christian origins.


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NECESSARY EVIL

Origin and PurposeHANS-WERNER SCHROEDER

DRAWING ON Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy,

the author shows that 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, educa-tion, 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


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SEEING CHRIST IN SICKNESS AND HEALING

PETER SELG

FOR THOSE who are in daily contact with peo-

ple who are ill or in need, 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 anthro-posophic 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, coun-selors, and doctors can all benefit from this insightful book.


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THE BIBLE’S HIDDEN COSMOLOGY

GORDON STRACHAN

BY RETURNING 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 hid-den wisdom and allow the ancient secrets of the Bible to shine through.

This book gives readers a deeper understand-ing 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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CHRONICLE OF THE LIVING CHRIST

The Life & Ministry of Jesus Christ: Foundations of Cosmic ChristianityROBERT POWELL

THIS PIONEERING work uses the visions of

Anne Catherine Emmerich and the spiritual discover-ies 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-a-half–year ministry of Jesus, dating the events with an unprecedented accuracy. He correlates significant events in Christ’s life with future dates.


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FINGAL’S CAVE

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

ON THE isolated island of Staffa, near

Iona, Scotland, stands a 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 under-stand 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: 0826411444BOOK (HARDCOVER)CONTINUUM

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GIVE US THIS DAY

The Story of PrayerRUFUS GOODWIN

Foreword by Robert Sardello

GANDHI CALLED prayer “the key of the morning

and the bolt of the eve-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 ques-tions about prayer in this thoughtful book. He examines the various traditions of prayer through the ages. He discusses practices, rang-ing 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 dif-ferent 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, inspira-tion, and intuition, and provides an anchor for meaning in daily life.

Rufus Goodwin, a native of New York City, gradu-ated 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.


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THE NINTH CENTURY & THE HOLY GRAIL

WALTER JOHANNES STEIN

Introduction by John Matthews

THIS STUDY of Parzival by Wolfram von

Eschenbach offers ground-breaking insights into the mystery of the Grail. Stein searches historical records and identifies individu-als and events and reveals Eschenbach’s spiritual mes-sages.

Includes an index and 38 pages of illustra-tions.

Dr W. J. Stein was a personal student of Rudolf Steiner. Through the use of unconven-tional research methods and concepts of rein-carnation and karma, he developed revolution-ary new insights into the mystery of the Grail.


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THE HOPE OF THE WORLD

Contemplations and AphorismsRUDOLF FRIELING

Compiled by Werner Bril

THIS COLLECTION helps the soul to contemplate the

presence of the risen Christ 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 mate-rial.

Rudolf Frieling (1901–1986) was born in Leipzig, Germany. He studied theology and philosophy and was a founder of The Chris-tian Community in 1922 and, from 1960 until his death, was its leader. He wrote several books on Christianity and the Bible.


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JESUS, THE MASTER BUILDER

Druid Mysteries & the Dawn of ChristianityGORDON STRACHAN

JESUS’ ACTIVITIES before the start of

his ministry at the age of thirty have always been the subject of impassioned specula-tion. Legend suggests that Jesus traveled to the British Isles with Joseph of Arimathea, a tin trader. Beginning with the legends, the author uncovers fasci-nating connections between the Celts and Mediterranean culture and philosophy. Taking the biblical image of “Wisdom as the Master Craftsman,” Strachan explores the deep lay-ers of Mystery knowledge shared between the world of the Jews and Greeks and that of the northern Druids.

Gordon Strachan teaches in the Depart-ment of Architecture and the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Church of Scotland min-ister. He is also the author of Chartres (Floris, 2003).


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DEEPER SECRETS IN HUMAN HISTORY

In the Light of the Gospel of St. MatthewRUDOLF STEINER

3 lectures, Berlin, November 1–23, 1909 (CW 117)

STEINER EXAMINES the four aspects of Christ

in the four Gospels, with 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 divin-ity 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.


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BECOMING AWARE OF THE LOGOS

The Way of St. John the EvangelistGEORG KÜHLEWIND

THIS VOLUME places the reader in the world of

living thinking and cogni-tive 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 relation-ship, the logos in the beginning, the light in the darkness, the speaker, life, spirit, grace, and truth.


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GNOSIS

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

THE 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 num-ber 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

SCHROEDER SUMMARIZES the cosmic dimen-sion of Christ in the New Testament and

the development of human consciousness in relation to the Logos, examining how we are to engage in a natural, conscious relationship with the Christ.


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ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY

And the Mission of Christian RosenkreutzRUDOLF STEINER

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

Foreword by Marie Steiner

IN ADDITION to outer Christianity, there is

an “esoteric” Rosicrucian stream of Christian thought and development. Steiner sheds light on this once-secret spiritual movement. Rather than relying on his-torical 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 histori-cal figures such as Jeshu ben Pandira. This book features classic lectures such as “Fac-ing 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 TO CHRIST

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

WHAT WE usually think of as Christianity is

really its cultural form, developed during the last two millennia and repre-senting 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 develop-ment through spiritual science.

ISBN: 090469383X


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HOW CAN MANKIND FIND THE CHRIST AGAIN?The Threefold Shadow-Existence of Our Time and the New Light of ChristRUDOLF STEINER

8 lectures, Dornach, Dec. 1918–Jan. 1919 (CW 187)

CAN THE Christ be expe-rienced in one’s soul?

Steiner says that we can 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 spiri-tual 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.


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THE HOLY GRAIL & THE EUCHARIST

SERGEI BULGAKOV

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

THE EMINENT Orthodox theologian and

sophiologist discusses the Holy Grail, the chal-ice 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.


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THE VOICE OF THE EAGLE

The Heart of Celtic Christianity: John Scotus Eriugena’s Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. JohnCHRISTOPHER 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

JOHN SCOTUS Eriugena was born and raised in

Ireland during the early ninth century. Neither monk nor priest but a “holy sage,” he car-ried 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.


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THE NEW SPIRITUALITY

And the Christ Experience of the Twentieth CenturyRUDOLF STEINER

7 lectures, Dornach, Oct. 1920 (CW 200)

STEINER TRACES the development of con-sciousness and the human soul through his-

tory and describes the need for new methods 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.


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ISBN: 0880102128 HARDCOVER $20.00

THE REAPPEARANCE OF CHRIST IN THE ETHERIC

RUDOLF STEINER

13 selected lectures, 1910–1917

Introduction by Stephen Usher

THE ACTS of the Apostles describes Christ’s Ascen-

sion: “And a cloud received 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.”


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THE MYSTERY OF ARTHUR AT TINTAGEL

RICHARD SEDDON

THIS BOOK distinguishes clearly the substance of the Arthurian mysteries, which origi-

nated in Britain in pre-Christian times, from that of the Grail, which came from the East at the time of Christ.


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THE NEW TESTAMENT

JON MADSEN, ENGLISH RENDERING

MADSEN, A priest of the Christian Commu-nity, has attempted to recover the over-

tones and subtleties of the original language of the New Testament, making it more trans-parent for the general reader.

FLORIS BOOKS 336 PAGES, HARDCOVER ISBN: 0863151841 $29.50

THE TWELVE HOLY NIGHTS & THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES


PROKOFIEFF DRAWS on Rudolf Steiner’s

work and his own spiri-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 struc-ture 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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THE REALITIES OF PRAYER

GILBERT CHILDS

PRAYER CAN help us penetrate higher reali-

ties and transform our lives. 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: 1855840154BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

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CHRIST AND THE SON OF MAN

WILHELM KELBER

CHRIST CALLED himself “the Son of Man,” a title that has never been fully explained.

Kelber shows that esoteric knowledge can illu-minate these references in sacred literature.

Wilhelm Kelber (1901–1967) was a found-ing priest of the Christian Community and worked in Germany.


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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)

IN THESE talks, Rudolf Steiner offers his pro-

found insights into the essential truths behind the Christ event, as well as the historic and prehistoric events—on Earth and in the spiritual worlds—lead-ing 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 understand-ing the central place of esoteric Christianity for Rudolf Steiner in Anthroposophy.


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RELIGION

An Introductory ReaderRUDOLF STEINER

Edited by Andrew Welburn

IN THIS collection, Steiner discusses topics such as:

mysticism and beyond: the 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.


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PATHS OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES

From Compostela to the New WorldVIRGINIA SEASE & MANFRED SCHMIDT-BRABANT

RECENTLY, 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. Focus-ing on the spiritual history of humankind, they begin with the cosmic origin of the Grail Mysteries and culminate with the supra-sensory Michael cultus and the being of Anthro-posophia.


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NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES

RUDOLF FRIELING

FRIELING BEGINS by looking at the nature

of the Gospels and the accounts of healings con-tained 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 consid-eration 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.

ISBN: 086315185X


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Sophia

ISIS MARY SOPHIA

Her Mission and OursRUDOLF STEINER

Edited and introduced by Christopher Bamford

THE FEMININE divine has had many names:

Ishtar in Babylon, Inanna 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 state-ments 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 Gnos-tic Achamod, and Sophia and the New Isis. Above all, in a remarkable way, Steiner makes clear the relationship of Christ and Sophia.


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PISTIS SOPHIA

A Gnostic GospelG. R. S. MEAD

THIS TRANSLATION of the Gnostic religious

document was the most influential of all Gnostic studies before the discov-ery 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.


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THE FALL OF SOPHIA

A Gnostic Text on the Redemption of Universal ConsciousnessVIOLET MACDERMOT Foreword by Stephan A. Hoeller

�SOPHIA [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 sym-bols 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 Christian-ity 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 dis-ciples how they will share in this cosmic act of redemption.

In this profound yet accessible work, Egyp-tologist Violet MacDermot gives us a fresh translation of the Pistis Sophia from the Cop-tic 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

Towards a New Culture of the FamilyMANFRED SCHMIDT-BRABANT & VIRGINIA SEASE

THE AUTHORS 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.


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LECTURES ON DIVINE HUMANITY

VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV

SOPHIA, 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 divine-human 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 actualiza-tion of “divine humanity” in eternity and time, of the divine world and the fall of spiri-tual beings into sin, of the origin and meaning of the natural world, and the incarnation of Christ, leading to the redemption of the vis-ible and invisible worlds in the full revelation of divine humanity.


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THE MOST HOLY TRINOSOPHIA

& the New Revelation of the Divine FeminineROBERT POWELL

Introduction by Carol E. Parrish-Harra

POWELL SUGGESTS that Western civilization

is making a long-term, radical shift toward conscious incorporation of Sophianic wisdom. Sophia is interpreted as a Trinity—Mother, Daughter, and Holy Soul—as well as the femi-nine 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.


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SOPHIA

The Wisdom of God: An Outline of SophiologySERGEI BULGAKOV

THERE IS a great hunger to recover the feminine

aspect of the Divinity. But 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 pres-ent 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 Vladi-mir Solovyov and Pavel Florensky, be began to develop a profound and original vision of Sophia.


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The Cycle of the Year

THE ILLUSTRATED CALENDAR OF THE SOUL

Meditations for the Yearly CycleRUDOLF STEINER

Images by Anne Stockton Translated by John Thomson

THESE BEAUTIFUL, medita-tive 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 stimu-late 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 fifty-two celebrated and evocative paintings, a won-derful complement to the text. John Thomson has translated Steiner’s words especially for this edition.

ISBN: 1902636627BOOK (HARDCOVER) 4 ¾ X 6 ¾TEMPLE LODGE

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THE CYCLE OF THE SEASONS And the Seven Liberal ArtsSERGEI 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

IN THIS small book, Prokofieff offers his ideas for establishing a connection between

the various arts, the cycle of the seasons and the festivals.


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

(CW 40)

RUDOLF STEINER’S Calendar of the Soul first

appeared as the second part of a “calendar” that begins with his suggestion that a calendar is a way of connect-ing past and future, Earth and cosmos. It is important to get a sense of the move-ments 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: 0880105348BOOK (PAPERBACK) 6 ¼ X 10 ¼STEINERBOOKS

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THE CYCLE OF THE YEAR AS A PATH OF INITIATION

Leading to an Experience of the Christ BeingSERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

PROKOFIEFF 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.


$60.00496 PAGES

THE FESTIVALS & THEIR MEANING

RUDOLF STEINER

HERE ARE twenty-nine of Steiner’s most important lectures on the festivals. He

describes the true meaning behind the major festivals of the Christian year and shows that they are more than commemorations of his-torical events in the Christian tradition—they are yearly spiritual events that carry a growing significance.


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THE EASTER FESTIVAL in the Evolution of the MysteriesRUDOLF STEINER

4 lectures, Dornach, April 1924 (CW 233a)

RUDOLF STEINER leads us to an understand-ing of the true meaning of Easter by tracing

its history from the pre-Christian era to our time. He shows that it is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come to understand our relationship to spiri-tual reality.

ISBN: 088010256X


$7.9562 PAGES

THE FOUR SEASONS AND THE ARCHANGELS

RUDOLF STEINER

5 lectures, Dornach, October 5–13, 1923 (GA 223, 229)

ONE CAN find a wealth of material for fruit-ful meditation in these profound studies of

the cosmic forces behind the four great festi-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.


$17.9588 PAGES



N e w !

HOME NURSING FOR CARERS

TINEKE VAN BENTHEIM

ALL ASPECTS of home nursing are covered

by the author, including the arrangement of the patient’s room, meals, tak-ing a temperature, and washing the patient. She also details holistic treat-ments, such as herbal and plant remedies, baths, foot baths, compresses, and poultices. Also included are sections specifi-cally on pregnancy, birth, sleep, nursing the terminally ill, and death.

Here is a comprehensive guide for holistic home care, especially for those nursing chil-dren 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.


$19.95160 PAGES

AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOSOPHICAL MEDICINE

Extending the Art of HealingVICTOR BOTT, M.D.

DR. BOTT offers an over-view of this remarkable

medicine. He presents a new approach to under-standing 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.


$22.00224 PAGES

HEALTHY MEDICINE

A Guide to the Emergence of Sensible, Comprehensive CareROBERT ZIEVE, M.D.

DR. 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.


$24.95400 PAGES

BROKEN VESSELS

The Spiritual Structure of Human Frailty

RUDOLF STEINER

Foreword by Michael Lipson, Ph.D.

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

ACCORDING TO Steiner, true healing is impos-

sible unless it includes every dimension of a human being—both vis-ible 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 MedicineISBN: 0880105038BOOK (PAPERBACK)STEINERBOOKS

$25.00176 PAGES

N e w E d i t i o n s !

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)

STEINER SHOWS the possibility of truly

integrating medicine for the whole person of body, soul, and spirit. In addition to modern med-icine, 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.


$24.95356 PAGES

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2006

THE HEALING PROCESS

Spirit, Nature & Our BodiesRUDOLF STEINER

Preface by Richard Leviton Introduction by Christopher Bamford Translation by Catherine E. Creeger

11 lectures, Aug. 28, 1923–Aug. 29, 1924 (CW 319)

STEINER INTRODUCES fundamental principles

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


$19.95320 PAGES

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2006

Nutrition, Health & Therapies


THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE

An Outline of a Spiritual Scientifically Oriented Medicine, VOL. 1OTTO WOLFF, M.D. & FRIEDRICH HUSEMANN, M.D.

TODAY’S MEDICINE is strongly influenced

by natural science, which focuses entirely on the-material 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 exten-sive 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.


$39.95414 PAGES

A CHILD IS BORN

A Natural Guide to Pregnancy, Birth & Early ChildhoodWILHELM ZUR LINDEN

BEGINNING WITH the growing embryo dur-

ing pregnancy, the author guides the reader through the birth; the postnatal period and breastfeeding; care of newborn babies; meals for babies; and car-ing for children when they are sick. He includes useful sections on bottle-feeding, almond milk, and water quality.

This new edition includes matters of con-traception, drugs, a father’s presence during birthing, thumb sucking, sleep, crib death, overheating, and more.


$22.00224 PAGES

EXTENDING PRACTICAL MEDICINEFundamental Principles Based on the Science of the Spirit

RUDOLF STEINER & ITA WEGMAN


Foreword by Dr. Michael Evans

STEINER COLLABORATED with Dr. Ita Wegman to

write this classic introduc-tion to anthroposophic medicine, intended to revitalize the healing arts through spiritual knowl-edge. Without underrating or dismissing modern medi-cine, 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 through-out the world.


$19.95144 PAGES

COMPLETE HEALING

Regaining Your Health through Anthroposophical MedicineMICHAEL EVANS, M.D. & IAIN RODGER

ANTHROPOSOPHIC MEDICINE adds spiritual

science to conventional, allopathic medicine to provide therapies for the whole human being. These therapies offer the possibil-ity of success when conven-tional treatment can only suppress symptoms. The broad range of therapies dramatically reduce the need for conventional drugs. Medicine based on the Steiner’s medi-cal principles have been used worldwide for seventy-five years.

Previously published as Anthroposophical Medi-cine

Dr. Michael Evans helped establish Park Attwood Clinic in Worcestershire, UK.

Iain Rodger is a BBC producer and free-lance writer.


$14.95192 PAGES

GOLD & THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE

Treating Chronic Physical & Mental Illness with Mineral RemediesPETER GRÜNEWALD, M.D.

BASED ON new research, Grünewald examines

the spiritual aspects of 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 prac-titioner in Bristol and a medical adviser for people with special needs. He has studied and practiced anthroposophic medicine for more than sixteen years.


$35.00144 PAGES

DIET AND CANCER

UDO RENZENBRINK

RENZENBRINK’S DIET 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, show-ing 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 indis-pensable book for all who are serious about real nutrition.


$11.9572 PAGES

N u t r i t i o n , H e a l t h & T h e r a p i e s



A GUIDE TO CHILD HEALTH

WOLFGANG GOEBEL & MICHAELA GLÖCKLER

THIS ACCLAIMED guide to children’s physi-

cal, psychological, and spiritual development is now available in a brand new edition. Combining medical advice with issues of upbringing and educa-tion, this is a definitive guide for parents. This book outlines the connec-tion 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 prac-tice on seventeen years of experience in the children’s outpatient department of the Her-decke Hospital in Germany, based on anthro-posophical 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 condi-tions for them. The authors examine issues of raising and educating children, and how these affect later life. This is an extremely practi-cal 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.


$36.00448 PAGES

ISCADOR

Mistletoe and Cancer TherapyCHRISTINE MURPHY, EDITOR

RECENTLY, THE plant-based cancer therapy

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

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 anthro-posophically extended and homeopathic medicines and therapies.

ISBN: 193005176XBOOK (PAPERBACK)LANTERN BOOKS

$20.00208 PAGES

BLESSED BY ILLNESS

L. F. C. MEES

DR. MEES, author of Secrets of the Skeleton,

offers an alternative approach to today’s “symp-tomatic 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.


$24.95250 PAGES

THE HARMONY OF THE HUMAN BODYMusical Principles in Human Physiology

ARMIN HUSEMANN, M.D.

THIS IS an exploration of the cosmic origins

of human beings and the evolutionary laws that govern their development. Husemann applies musi-cal 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.


$40.00

256 PAGES

MEDICINE


Edited by Andrew Maendl, M.D.

HERE ARE Steiner’s main ideas on extending

conventional medicine by applying knowledge gained through spiritual science. Topics include true human nature as a basis for medi-cal practice; the science of knowing; the mission of reverence; the four temperaments; the bridge between universal spirituality and the physical; the constella-tion 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 prac-tice: and three case histories.


$17.95240 PAGES

A SLICE OF LIFE

A Personal Story of Healing through CancerLEE STURGEON-DAY

WHEN THE author was diagnosed with

breast cancer, she assessed her options—from sur-gery 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.


$17.95160 PAGES



FOODWISE

Understanding What We Eat & How It Affects UsWENDY E. COOK

COOK OFFERS her per-spectives on human

evolution related to food, the importance of agri-cultural methods, grasses and grains, human diges-tion, and vegetarianism. She analyses the build-ing 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 supple-ments. She ends with tips on cooking, plan-ning menus, children’s food, sharing meals, and some mouth-watering recipes.

Wendy E. Cook is also the author of The Biodynamic Food & Cookbook.


$34.00352 PAGES

THE VACCINATION DILEMMA

CHRISTINE MURPHY

CHILDREN UNDER five are likely to receive thirty-

seven doses of eleven dif-ferent vaccines, yet few par-ents 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 “insur-ance,” even against diseases that no longer pose a significant threat.

This book clearly describes the immune sys-tem, 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 ill-ness 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: 1930051107BOOK (PAPERBACK)LANTERN BOOKS

$15.005 1/2 X 8 1/2144 PAGES

HOME REMEDIES

Herbal & Homeopathic Treatments for Use at HomeOtto Wolff

THIS 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 acti-vate 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.


$12.95124 PAGES

MEDICINE FOR THE WHOLE PERSON

A Guide to Anthroposophical TreatmentDR. GEOFFREY DOUCH

THIS CONCISE overview is a useful resource that

describes the main thera-pies of anthroposophically extended medical therapy, including rhythmic mas-sage, hydrotherapy, sculpture therapy, and therapeutic speech. It also includes a list of common con-ditions and suggested remedies.

Dr. Geoffrey Douch is a general practitio-ner 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.


$11.9564 PAGES

MEDICINE, MYTHOLOGY & SPIRITUALITY

Recollecting the Past and Willing the FutureRALPH TWENTYMAN

IN HIS discussion of the art of healing, the

author places the problems of modern medicine in the context of the evolu-tion of consciousness and the modern crisis of self-hood and community. He relates this to today’s tragically common expe-rience of loneliness in relation to the experi-ence 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 Hab-baniya, Iraq. Later he trained in homeopathy at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and was appointed to the staff as consultant physi-cian. There he introduced the mistletoe treat-ment of cancer as suggested by Rudolf Steiner and considered anthroposophic methods as a valid extension of Hahnemann’s homeopathic approach. Twentyman edited the British Homeo-pathic Journal for twenty-one years and has lectured extensively.


$24.005 ½ X 8 ½128 PAGES

NUTRITION RUDOLF HAUSCHKA

DR. HAUSCHKA consid-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.


$28.00248 PAGES




THE SCIENCE AND ART OF HEALING

RALPH TWENTYMAN

PARALLEL TO the devel-opment of human con-

sciousness toward “objec-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 whole-ness leads to the recognition of healing, in its deepest sense, as a true art.


$35.00320 PAGES

AN OCCULT PHYSIOLOGY

RUDOLF STEINER

GIVEN THE upsurge of interest in complemen-

tary therapies and treat-ments, medical researchers are gradually being pres-sured to reassess and expand their knowledge of the structure and organization of the human body. Despite advances in modern tech-nology, there are vast areas of human physi-ological activity that are related to spiritual forces and beings, and thus remain undetect-able to conventional scientific observation.

In these revealing lectures, Steiner concen-trates 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 sig-nificance 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.

ISBN: 185584141X


$22.00208 PAGES

THE NATURE OF SUBSTANCE

RUDOLF HAUSCHKA

THE REDUCTIONIST view of conventional science

asserts that matter is solely physical. Dr. Hauschka shows the limitations of that view and points to new research that indi-cates 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, Swit-zerland. After many attempts and a new understanding of the processes in the plant world, he produced a plant extract from rhyth-mized 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.


$29.95256 PAGES

SPIRIT HEALING

BOB WOODWARD

THROUGH THE work of renowned healers such

as Harry Edwards, “spiri-tual healing” is increasingly recognized as valid for a wide variety of physical ailments.Woodward has practiced spiritual healing and has extensive experi-ence 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 pro-vided for a deeper understanding of the spiri-tual world and our relationship with it through this form of healing.


$27.00144 PAGES

WHY ME?Interviews with Seven People with AIDSMARGJE KOSTER

SEVEN PEOPLE living with AIDS talk about them-

selves and their lives. They tell the dramatic stories of what happened to them and how they learned to cope with having to live face to face with death.


$12.95144 PAGES

WATER, ELECTRICITY & HEALTH

Protecting Yourself from Electrostress at Home and Work ALAN HALL

ELECTROSTRESS IS pervasive. We are

surrounded by webs of electric wiring, power lines, transformers, all generating electromagnetic fields. Symptoms range from fatigue, tension, and poor resilience to insom-nia, 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.


$26.00192 PAGES

COOKERY BOOK FOR PATIENTS WITH CANCER OR PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS

From the Lukas Clinic

INTERESTING, ENJOYABLE, and healing veg-etarian recipes from the Lukas Klinik in

Arlesheim, Switzerland.ISBN: 0854407162BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

$7.9575 PAGES



Biographical Issues

CRISIS POINTS

Working through Personal ProblemsJULIAN SLEIGH

AS A counselor, Julian Sleigh has helped many

people through crises. He 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.


$7.9564 PAGES

FRIENDS AND LOVERS

Working through RelationshipsJULIAN SLEIGH

FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, mar-riage, 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 confu-sion. 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.


$13.95192 PAGES

IN SEARCH OF HOME

Women Working, Caring, SharingNORAGH JONES

WHAT DOES “home” mean for women of today? We frequently hear the call to

revive and strengthen the nuclear family as the 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,

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 matu-rity.

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).


$16.95248 PAGES

FROM STRESS TO SERENITY

Gaining Strength in the Trials of LifeANGUS JENKINSON

JENKINSON OFFERS advice, practical exer-

cises, and insights from many traditions and diverse sources. The result is an enlightening workbook and a thought-provoking analy-sis of the roots of stress and its meaning for our personal and spiritual development.

Angus Jenkinson is a professor of inte-grated marketing and chairman of Stepping Stones Consultancy.

RUDOLF STEINER PRESS 288 PAGES, PAPERBACK ISBN: 1855841576 $26

PHASES

The Spiritual Rhythms in Adult LifeBERNARD LIEVEGOED

THIS CLASSIC bestseller describes each phase

of life — adolescence, the 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-

edged, the peculiarities of one’s particular life path and its challenges take on new meaning.


$22.00216 PAGES

SOULWAYS

Development, Crises, and Illnesses of the SoulRUDOLF TREICHLER

THE AUTHOR discusses personal growth

through the phases of human life, giving a pro-found picture of both child and adult develop-ment. He explores the developmental disorders of soul life, including addic-tion, neurosis, psychosis, midlife issues, hyste-ria, anorexia, schizophrenia, depression, mania, and more. Disorders are explored from a devel-opmental and therapeutic viewpoint, as ques-tions that may challenge individual growth.

Rudolf Treichler studied medicine, with a dissertation on Friedrich Hölderlin’s mental condition in relation to his poetry. A psychia-trist and neurologist, Dr. Treichler worked at the Friedrich Husemann Clinic as a consultant and gave courses.


$35.00320 PAGES

SPRINGBOARD

Women’s Development WorkbookLIZ WILLIS & JENNY DAISLEY

THIS WORKBOOK is packed with ideas,

exercises, and examples that help the reader work alone or with others. It is practical and filled with positive think-ing and good humor. Readers report exciting life changes including promotions, solving difficult relationships, regaining a healthy life-style, being more assertive, and generally feel-ing greater self-confidence and independence.


$55.00320 PAGES




THE MEANING OF LOVE

VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV


WHAT IS the meaning of love’s intense emo-

tion? Solovyov points to the spark of divinity that we see in another human being and shows how this “living ideal of Divine love, ante-cedent 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 mysti-cal transfiguration of the world. Love, which allows one person to find unconditional com-pletion in another, becomes an evolutionary strategy for overcoming cosmic disintegration.

Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth cen-tury, 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 Pla-tonist, 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.


$16.95128 PAGES

LOVE AND THE WORLD

A Guide to Conscious Soul PracticeROBERT 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

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

This is a revised edition of Love and the Soul.ISBN: 0970109741BOOK (PAPERBACK)LINDISFARNE BOOKS

$16.95 [ QUANTITIES LIMITED ]224 PAGES

THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOUL

WILLEM ZEYLMANS VAN EMMICHOVEN

THE SELF-AWARE human soul participates in two worlds: external and internal. It medi-

ates between these two worlds, and a dynamic stream continually moves through the soul in polarities of love and hate, joy and sor-row, pleasure and displeasure, and so on. The author examines these and other psychological processes in the light of Anthroposophy.


$10.95170 PAGES

LIFTING THE VEIL OF MENTAL ILLNESS

An Approach to Anthroposophical PsychologyWILLIAM BENTO

BASING HIS views on Rudolf Steiner’s work,

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 disor-der, 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 main-stream psychology, sociology, and spiritual science. He lectures and writes and is working toward a Ph.D.


$20.00128 PAGES

STAR CHILDREN

Understanding Children Who Set Us Special Tasks and ChallengesGEORG KÜHLEWIND

IN RECENT years, much has been written about

“gifted” children with 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 impor-tant 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


$25.00160 PAGES

MAN ON THE THRESHOLD

The Challenge of Inner DevelopmentBernard Lievegoed

INSTEAD 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 dis-turbances and mental ill-ness, or it may be enlight-ening and positive.

This is an indispensable roadmap for the inner journey, offering guidelines for thera-pists and everyone on the inner path. Lieve-goed 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.


$19.95224 PAGES

Soul & Spirit


A PSYCHOLOGY OF BODY, SOUL & SPIRIT

Anthroposophy, Psychosophy, PneumatosophyRUDOLF STEINER

12 lectures, 1909–1911 (CW 115)

Introduction by Robert Sardello

THESE TALKS 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 individ-ual spirit life and how to distinguish between illusory and genuine spiritual experience.

Previous edition: Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit.


$24.95272 PAGES

OUR TWELVE SENSES

Wellsprings of the SoulALBERT SOESMAN

OUR SENSES nourish life, but overstimulation can

harm healthy sensory expe-riences. Soesman explores the twelve senses: touch, life, self-movement, bal-ance, smell, taste, vision, temperature, hearing, lan-guage, concept, and the I. He discusses their develop-ment, 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.


$22.00162 PAGES

UNDERSTAND YOUR TEMPERAMENT!A Guide to the Four TemperamentsGILBERT CHILDS

DR. CHILDS offers a refreshing treatment of

the ancient doctrine of the four temperaments — the choleric, sanguine, phleg-matic, and melancholic types. He shows how to rec-ognize the temperaments in ourselves and in others, and how we can understand their function in human behavior. He investigates in depth the origins and mani-festations of the temperaments in both their psychological and physiological aspects.

Included are fascinating discussions of the relationships between adults of various tem-peraments and matters of compatibility in partnership, family, and workplace situations.

The author also includes a section dealing with the temperaments of children, with help-ful advice on how to help them in relation to attributes and behavior.


$19.95145 PAGES

CHILDREN & THEIR TEMPERAMENTS

MARIEKE ANSCÜUTZ

FOUR FUNDAMENTAL types, or temperaments,

belong to the human per-sonality, 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 class-rooms. She also discusses how these ideas may be used to manage, and relate to, groups and individuals.


$13.95128 PAGES

THE SPEECH OF THE GRAIL

A Journey toward Speaking that Heals and TransformsLINDA SUSSMAN

LINDA SUSSMAN, a storyteller and cer-

emonialist, explores ways 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 heal-ing 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 rela-tionship 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


$18.95296 PAGES

BEYOND THE FOREST

The Story of Parsifal and the GrailKelvin Hall

ARE WE not all Parsifal if we look deeply enough? The Grail

story represents the arche-typal search for wholeness, leading through courage and surrender, from forget-ting to love and redemp-tion. Along the way, we are hindered by fear, confu-sion, 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.


$17.9596 PAGES

S o u l & S p i r i t



AMERICA’S GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY

JESAIAH (YESHAYAHU) BEN-AHARON

THE AUTHOR reminds us of the founding vision of the United States and the obliga-

tions inherent in the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence. In a summary of today’s global, social, and economic condi-tions, Ben-Aharon describes the dire consequences of ignoring those obliga-tions and explains how a threefold concept of society, first described by Rudolf Steiner, can end the destructive effects of globalization and introduce progressive social struc-tures. 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 spiri-tual 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.


$15.00144 PAGES

CONFRONTING CONFLICT

A First-Aid Kit for Handling ConflictFRIEDRICH GLASL

GLASL USES examples, exercises, theory, and techniques to analyze all kinds of conflict;

to understand how temperaments affect con-flicts; to reduce conflict by changing behavior, attitudes, and perceptions; and to practice considerate means of confrontation.

The author presents the tools to analyze the symp-toms, types, and causes of many types of conflict; understand how tempera-ments affect conflicts and what you can do; acknowl-edge 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-

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


$27.00192 PAGES

THE ENTERPRISE OF THE FUTURE

How Companies DevelopFRIEDRICH GLASL

GLASL EXPLORES moral intuition in leader-ship and organizational development, and

describes how companies grow through the pioneer, differentiated, integrated, and associa-tive phases of development. A map of tomor-row’s company helps leaders develop a practi-cal 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.


$23.00118 PAGES

THE ESOTERIC ASPECT OF THE SOCIAL QUESTION

The Individual and SocietyRUDOLF STEINER

4 lectures, Feb. 4–Mar 9, 1919 (CW 193)

THE GENERAL increase in destructive, antiso-

cial behavior has focused greater attention on social issues, while effective solu-tions remain elusive. Steiner presents his inner, esoteric perspective on social con-cerns 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.


$17.95112 PAGES

HOMEMAKING AS A SOCIAL ART

Creating a Home for Body, Soul & SpiritVERONIKA VAN DUIN

SOCIAL AND economic pressures today affect

the traditional role of 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 under-taken 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 chil-dren with special needs and leads seminars and workshops for homemakers.


$24.00224 PAGES

THE CHALLENGE OF THE TIMES

RUDOLF STEINER

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

IN THESE lectures, given just days after the end-

ing of World War I, Steiner 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 dan-gers 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.


$5.954 ¼” X 7”224 PAGES

Economic Renewal & Social Issues


Av a i l a b l e A ga i n !

SPEAKING, LISTENING, UNDERSTANDING

The Art of Creating Conscious ConversationHEINZ ZIMMERMANN

“This book results from many year’s experience in a ‘self-administered’ 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

ALL HUMAN activity, whatever the size of the community — whether in business, the

family, schools, or politics — is group activity. 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 pro-cess, Exercises, both group and individual, are provided for different kinds of conversations.

Rather than the dynamics of group psychol-ogy, however, the author starts from the artis-tic aspects of conversation: namely, language and consciousness. Using examples and anect-dotes drawn from many years of work with groups, Zimmermann shows in a straightfor-ward 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 con-versation.

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.


$16.95128 PAGES

MALE AND FEMALE

Developing Human EmpathyBARUCH LUKE URIELI

URIELI EXAMINES mythol-ogy and the Judaeo-

Christian tradition in terms of the the sexes and gender issues in contemporary Western culture. He devel-ops the theme of “empathy” as a guide for male-female relationships, based on mutual recognition, acceptance, and depen-dence. 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.


$19.9596 PAGES

THE RENEWAL OF THE SOCIAL ORGANISM

RUDOLF STEINER

26 essays, written 1919–1920 (CW 24)

CULTURE, 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 auton-omous enough to manifest its essential nature. These essays cover a range of issues with spe-cial attention to money, the division of labor, human motivation, and education.


$10.95174 PAGES

MYSTERY STREAMS IN EUROPE

and the New MysteriesBERNARD LIEVEGOED

THIS BOOK is intended for people wish-ing to deepen their relationship to the

Anthroposophical Society and the School of 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.


$8.9586 PAGES

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE


Edited by Stephen Usher

THIS VOLUME in the “Pocket Library of

Spiritual Wisdom Series” collects Rudolf Steiner’s ideas for social and politi-cal renewal. Topics include: psychological cognition; the social question; the social question and theoso-phy; Memoranda of 1917; the metamorphosis of intelligence; culture, law, and economy; and Central Europe between East and West.


$19.95224 PAGES

HUMAN ENCOUNTERS AND KARMA

ATHYS FLORIDE

THIS MARVELOUS book develops a path of

community and shows 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 paral-lels 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 spir-itual 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.


$9.95128 PAGES

E c o n o m i c R e n e w a l & S o c i a l I s s u e s



SOCIAL ISSUES

Meditative Thinking & the Threefold Social OrderRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Gary Lamb

5 lectures, January 5, 1920–March 18, 1920 (CW 334)

RUDOLF STEINER shows that today’s politi-

cal, economic, and social problems are symptoms of our faulty thinking. His convincing analysis of economic crises, unemploy-ment, 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 interna-tional politics, Steiner’s insights come as a fresh breeze that awakens us to responsibility and renewed hope. In passionate, lucid lan-guage, Steiner presents his vision of the three-fold social order, a system based on free will and spiritual insight.


$12.95152 PAGES

ISBN: 0880103590 (HARDCOVER) $24.95TRANSFORMING PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS

The Seven Steps of Spiritual DevelopmentMARGARETE VAN DEN BRINK

EVERYONE, THE author tells us, experiences

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 ratio-nalistic methods of most mainstream consul-tants and personal development.


$24.00224 PAGES

VISION IN ACTION

Working with Soul & Spirit in Small OrganizationsCHRISTOPHER SCHAEFER & TŸNO VOORS

SCHAEFER AND Voors have been active for years in

community and organization development. They created this guide for those inter-ested in grassroots develop-ment of social, service, or educational organizations. The three parts — historical and organizational perspec-tives; the how-to of develop-ing 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.


$16.95272 PAGES

TOWARDS SOCIAL RENEWAL

Rethinking the Basis of SocietyRUDOLF STEINER


THIS BOOK, first published in 1919, remains highly 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 politi-cal 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.


$19.95144 PAGES

A VISION FOR THE MILLENNIUM

Modern Spirituality and Cultural RenewalRUDOLF STEINER

Edited by Andrew Welburn

A NEW MILLENNIUM tends to symbolize

a time to stop, reassess, and question the direction of individuals and soci-ety—a time to reexamine philosophies and values. This collection of excerpts from Steiner’s books and lectures provides an excel-lent introduction to his millennial vision. It includes commentary on the significance of the coming transformation of all areas of life, the importance of “spiri-tual 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

THE PERSONAL WORLD

John Macmurray on Self and SocietyPHILIP CONFORD

JOHN MACMURRAY’S philosophy has had an important influence on political thought,

ethics, and education, as well as theology and 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 dan-gers 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.


$35.00224 PAGES

E c o n o m i c R e n e w a l & S o c i a l I s s u e s


Biography

THE BUILDERS OF CAMPHILL

Lives and Destinies of the FoundersFRIEDWART BOCK

IN 1939, a small group of young Austrian refugees,

together with Dr. Karl König, formed a community to help children with spe-cial 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.


$32.00288 PAGES

WILLEM ZEYLMANS VAN EMMICHOVEN

An Inspiration for Anthroposophy, a BiographyEMANUEL ZEYLMANS

VAN 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 Chris-tian Community, helped found the Dutch journal Jonas. His writings include a biography of Ita Wegman.

ISBN: 190263635XBOOK (PAPERBACK)TEMPLE LODGE

$45.00312 PAGES

KASPAR HAUSER

The Struggle for the SpiritPETER TRADOWSKY

IN THIS work, Tradowsky addresses the myster-

ies surrounding Kaspar Hauser’s life, using spiritual

scientific research. His analysis delves into the occult significance of the individual incarnated as Kaspar Hauser.


$30.00336 PAGES

EVELYN FRANCIS CAPEL A Celebration of a Pioneering SpiritVARIOUS AUTHORS

THIS IS a collection of moving tributes to the inspirational work of Evelyn Capel,

the first British woman to become a priest in the Christian Community, a movement for Christian renewal. She was loved for her many books, lively lectures, workshops, and dedi-cated work as a counselor.

Includes recollections from students and a section on the sacraments.


$19.95176 PAGES

MARIE STEINER

Her Place in World KarmaHANS PETER VAN MANEN

MARIE STEINER, Rudolf Steiner’s wife and close

colleague, contributed 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.


$12.9548 PAGES

ETERNAL INDIVIDUALITY

Towards a Karmic Biography of NovalisSERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

THE AUTHOR develops and expands on Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research, lead-

ing to a more comprehensive understanding of Novalis and his crucial future mission for humanity.


$55.00400 PAGES

SIR GEORGE TREVELYAN

And the New Spiritual AwakeningFRANCES FARRER

TREVELYAN WAS a modern pioneer of alter-native values, exploring beliefs in angels,

the calming effects of crystals and the power 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.


$29.95208 PAGES

VALENTIN TOMBERG & ANTHROPOSOPHY

A Problematic RelationshipSERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

FOR MANY years, Valentin Tomberg

strongly advocated Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy. Prokofieff offers star-tling 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 condemna-tion and dismissal of Steiner and spiritual science.


$18.0064 PAGES

THE CASE OF VALENTIN TOMBERG

Anthroposophy or Jesuitism?SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF

WHAT IS the mystery behind Tomberg’s life? Prokofieff offers his views on a contro-

versial debate.ISBN: 0904693856BOOK (PAPERBACK)TEMPLE LODGE

$24.00 [ LIMITED QUANTITIES ]232 PAGES

B i o g r a p h y



THE DAWNWATCHERS

A Novel of the Twenty-First CenturyHIRAM A. BINGHAM

SET IN 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 con-tinents, 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 con-fronted 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 sup-pression.

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.

ISBN: 0961360208BOOK (PAPERBACK)TRIUNE BOOKS

$12.95343 PAGES

GIVING JUDAS A CHANCE

The Vision and Venture of Weaving Many LivesPIETRO ARCHIATI

A FRESH VIEW of reincarnation and karma that encourages a new perspective. ISBN: 1893843009BOOK (PAPERBACK)SPIRITUAL SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS

$13.00140 PAGES

LEGEND

A NovelBARRY MAHER

THIS CULT 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, motiva-tional, and sales keynote speaker. He is the author of numerous books.


$19.95312 PAGES

NICAEA

A Book of CorrespondencesMARTIN ROWE

THE ANCIENT Anatolian town of Nicaea was the site of two

transformative events in Christian history — the council of 325, which formalized the central doc-trines of Christian faith, and the council of 787, which sanctioned icons, leading to an abundance of Christian art. Using let-ters, meditations, Arabic folktales, a Sufi zhikr, prayers and Turkish shadow puppet theater, Nicaea explores faith and political power, indi-vidual 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, Envi-ronmentalism, Animal Advocacy, and Social Justice. He lives in New York City.


$19.95288 PAGES

THE PARCHMENT

A NovelGERALD T. MCLAUGHLIN

IN A.D. 70, a document is hidden that will

threaten the very founda-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.


$24.95304 PAGES

ZANONI

A Rosicrucian TaleSIR EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

THE CONFLICT between head and heart that must be resolved through spiritual

initiation is played out during the French Revolution in this classic Rosicrucian account. The seven parts of this novel indicate the sev-enfold path of spiritual development behind the story itself.


$18.95416 PAGES

BLACK EARTH

Towards a New Mystery DramaCHRISTOPHER MARCUS

INSPIRED BY Steiner’s mystery dramas, Mar-cus and his performers wrote this bold,

powerful drama of soul and spirit, based on technology, art, destiny, and metamorphosis.


$19.95120 PAGES

Spiritual Fiction


MEDITATIVE PRAYERS FOR TODAY

ADAM BITTLESTON

THESE PRAYERS 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.


$9.9560 PAGES

PRAYERS FOR PARENTS & CHILDREN

RUDOLF STEINER

INCLUDES VERSES for every occasion of parenting.

Includes prayers for morn-ing and evening and graces for mealtimes. A lecture by Steiner provides context and insight into our greater cos-mic relationships before birth, during life, and after death.


$14.9580 PAGES

IMAGINATION’S MUSIC

From Youth to Old AgeCHRISTY MACKAYE BARNES

THIS BOOK begins with a selection of Christy’s

early poems followed by 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: 0932776302BOOK (PAPERBACK)ADONIS PRESS

$13.95128 PAGES

HYMNS TO THE NIGHT/ SPIRITUAL SONGS

NOVALIS

Foreword by Sergei O. Prokofieff

HYMNS TO the Night describes Novalis’ spiri-

tual initiation at the grave of his beloved Sophie. Spiritual Songs expresses his profound new relationship to the world and humanity and to Christianity.


$13.9564 PAGES

SHARDS FROM THE HEART

A Spiritual Odyssey in 20th-Century AmericaBERNARD GARBER

GARBER EXPLORES the great mysteries of human life and shows how the purpose

of life culminates in freedom of action. This book grew out of study sessions over several years in New York City.


$6.95160 PAGES

Verses & Meditations

BREATHING THE SPIRIT

Meditations for Times of Day & Seasons of the YearRUDOLF STEINER

Selected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)

V ERSES RELATE to the cycle of waking and sleeping, and the greater rhythms of birth

and death, gently reminding us of our origin and goal. Steiner also focuses on the changing seasons, earth’s cycle of sleeping and waking.

ISBN: 1855841428BOOK (HARDCOVER)SOPHIA BOOKS

$22.00128 PAGES

FINDING THE GREATER SELF

Meditations for Harmony and HealingRUDOLF STEINER

Selected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)

M EDITATIONS THAT 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.


$17.9580 PAGES

LIVING WITH THE DEAD

Meditations for Maintaining a Connection to Those Who Have DiedRUDOLF STEINER

Selected verses (CWs 40, 261, 267, 268)

HOPE AND 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 exis-tence.


$19.9564 PAGES

THE HEART OF PEACE

Meditations for Courage and TranquillityRudolf SteinerSelected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)

THESE VERSES aim to strengthen the heart by warming and enlivening thinking, allow-

ing 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.


$19.9596 PAGES



PRAYERS AND GRACES

MICHAEL JONES, EDITOR

THIS COLLECTION includes prayers for expectant

mothers, for children before and after birth, for the soul of a suicide, and for souls between the time of death and the funeral.


$14.9596 PAGES

THE UP-RISING IN DYING

CHRISTY MACKAYE BARNES

THIS BOOK has proven help-ful to countless people

faced by death. This collec-tion of prose, poetry, medita-tion, and prayer addresses the experience of death from many points of view, but always from a profound, spiri-tual perspective.


$11.9596 PAGES

VERSES & MEDITATIONS

RUDOLF STEINER

FEATURING MORE than ninety of Steiner’s best-

loved verses and medita-tions, this volume collects a range of material on various themes, such as working with spiritual beings, con-necting with loved ones who have passed over, developing selfhood, and celebrat-ing 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 contem-plation.


$22.00256 PAGES

Arts & Literature

BLACKBOARD DRAWINGS

1919–1924RUDOLF STEINER

Edited by Walter Kugler

STEINER GAVE more than 5,000

lectures to explain his ideas, and he frequently illustrated his words with col-ored 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: 1855841525BOOK (PAPERBACK)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

$50.0010 ½ X 10 INCHES

200 PAGES

THE INNER NATURE OF COLOR

From the Philosophy of the Four Elements to Modern ScienceJ. LEONARD BENSON

BENSON DESCRIBES the spiritual and esoteric

nature of color in terms 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.


$25.00 [ LIMITED QUANTITY ]224 PAGES

A WAY OF SEEING

Perception, Imagination, and PoetryJOHN ALLISON

POET JOHN Allison shows how ordinary

imagination can be inten-sified to become a means of cognition and a path to knowing and how poet-ry — 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 com-bination 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: 158420012XBOOK (PAPERBACK)LINDISFARNE BOOKS

$16.95160 PAGES

THE LADY & THE UNICORN

GOTTFRIED BUTTNER

Foreword by Baruch Urieli

EVERY WORK of art is rooted in culture

and history, and its interpretation can pro-vide valuable insights into human nature. In response to a continu-ing 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: 1869890523BOOK (HARDCOVER)HAWTHORN PRESS

$40.008 ½ X 11 INCHES

112 PAGES

A r t s & L i t e r a t u r e


WHAT IS ART?Conversations with Joseph BeuysJOSEPH BEUYS & VOLKER HARLAN

JOSEPH BEUYS’S work continues to influ-

ence and inspire artists and thinkers around the world—in areas from orga-nizational 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. Fea-tures more than forty illustrations.

VOLKER HARLAN was born in 1938 in Dres-den. 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.

ISBN: 1902636597ILLUSTRATED

BOOK (PAPERBACK)CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

$30.007 ½ X 9 ¾128 PAGES

THE SECRET HERESY OF HIERONYMUS BOSCHLynda Harris

THE BIZARRE and fantastic paintings of the Dutch

artist Hieronymus Bosch 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.


$75.00350 PAGES

OPENING OUR MORAL EYE

Essays, Talks, and Poems Embracing Creativity & CommunityM. C. RICHARDS

“This spiritual and, in many ways, autobiographical work is an eye-opening, heart-awakening, mind-expanding, 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

M . C. Richards’ extraordi-nary career spans half a

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 exem-plary twentieth-century Renaissance woman, passionate thinker, and philosophical artist.

This new collection by the author of Center-ing, 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 doc-torate in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and honorary doc-torate 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.


$19.95208 PAGES

THE DREAM SONG OF OLAF ÅSTESON

ELEANOR MERRY, ILLUSTRATOR

REDISCOVERED ONLY 130 years ago, this

poem from Norway—a rare and beautiful arti-fact—bears witness to a long tradition of initiation. In lectures on the Christmas mystery, Steiner spoke of its eso-teric 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.


$12.9548 PAGES

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

A MOVEMENT HAS been gaining ground that views

Bacon as the covert author of the great works attributed to Shakespeare. That move-ment also wishes to place Bacon on the primary ped-estal of British civilization. The author shows substantial evidence that Shakespeare and Bacon were linked, while radi-cally 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.


$25.00184 PAGES




SING ME THE CREATION

PAUL MATTHEWS

A WORKBOOK TO inspire you to think and write more creatively. More than 300 exer-

cises encourage your fantasy and provide the tools to craft poetry and story. The exercises will prove invaluable for group work, individu-als wishing to develop more creativity, and class teachers.


$22.00192 PAGES

Color & Painting

ART


Edited by Anne Stockton

STEINER’S VISION of art was that it should reflect

our human 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 spa-tial 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 percep-tions from which they derive — but through the arts, which express the qualitative experi-ences 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 top-ics 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; liv-ing 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


$19.95272 PAGES

COLOUR

RUDOLF STEINER

3 lectures, Dornach, May 6–8, 1921; 9 lectures 1914–1924 (GA 291)

BUILDING ON 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 founda-tion for a technique of working with color that leads to new artistic creativity.


$24.00224 PAGES

LIGHT, DARKNESS, AND COLOUR IN PAINTING THERAPY

Liane Collot d’Herbois

THE AUTHOR discovered that one’s constitu-tion, temperament, and illnesss are often

revealed through painting, and she went on to developed therapeutic painting based on spiri-tual 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.


$40.00258 PAGES

NINETTA SOMBART

Life and ArtVOLKER HARLAN

THIS IS the only over-view 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 collec-tion. 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 tech-nique that better expresses the esoteric aspect of the Christ.

Includes more than 90 illustrations.ISBN: 0863154654BOOK (HARDCOVER)FLORIS BOOKS

$55.009 ½ X 12 ½ INCHES

256 PAGES

Architecture & Sculpture

ARCHITECTURE


Edited by Andrew Beard

THIS VOLUME in the “Pocket Library of

Spiritual Wisdom Series” 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 archi-tectural 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 mani-festations of spiritual realities; metamorphosis in architecture; aspects of a new architec-ture; the first and second Goetheanums; the architecture of a community in Dornach; the temple is the human being; the restoration of the lost temple.


$19.955 X 7288 PAGES

ARCHITECTURE AS A SYNTHESIS OF THE ARTS

RUDOLF STEINER

8 lectures, Berlin, Dornach, 1911–1914 (CW 286)

Introduction by Christian Thal-Jantsen

THIS COLLECTION intro-duces Steiner’s vision

of architecture as a cul-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 archi-tecture, the arts, and social science. Includes color plates and b/w illustrations.

ISBN: 185584057X


$26.00216 PAGES



CHARTRES

Sacred Geometry, Sacred SpaceGORDON STRACHAN

THIS 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 sug-gests 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 Scot-land minister and the author of Jesus the Master Builder.


$30.00112 PAGES

LIVING ARCHITECTURE

KENNETH BAYES

RUDOLF STEINER has given us a “biography of archi-

tecture”—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 intro-duction to the architectural ideas of Rudolf Steiner. He was an early exponent of what has come to be called organic design in archi-tecture, and this little volume clearly shows Steiner’s influence on architects and designers around the world.


$9.95128 PAGES

Eurythmy

HOW THE NEW ART OF EURYTHMY BEGAN

Lory Maier-Smits, the First EurythmistMAGDALENE SIEGLOCH

THIS BOOK traces the story of the first eurythmist,

Lory Maier-Smits, with artistic care and loving detail. The author describes her early exposure to Anthroposophy; her train-ing 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.


$22.00168 PAGES

FOUNDATIONS OF CURATIVE EURYTHMY

MARGARETE KIRCHNER-BOCKHOLT

IN 1921, Rudolf Steiner gave lectures on ther-apeutic eurythmy. For those unable to attend

the original courses, Dr Kirchner-Bockholt 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 Prin-ciples 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 euryth-mists. She died in 1973.


$40.00192 PAGES

Music & Singing

UNCOVERING THE VOICE

The Cleansing Power of SongVALBORG WERBECK-SVÄRDSTRÖM

Afterword by Dr. Eugene Kolisko

THROUGH EXERCISES and careful reasoning,

the author provides a new, spiritually enlivened interpretation of the singing process. From the essential nature of song, she summons us to work for the purity and pres-ervation 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.


$25.00240 PAGES

EXPANDING TONAL AWARENESS

A Musical Exploration of the Evolution of Consciousness HEINER RULAND

THE IMPLICATIONS for composition,

musical education, and therapy are immense. Ruland shows how the fundamental elements of music embody distinctive modes of consciousness. He examines the musi-cal systems of ancient humanity and goes on to draw a vivid picture of our contemporary musical situation. With the help of the mono-chord, the reader can explore new and unfamil-iar musical realms.

ISBN: 1855841703LARGE FORMAT

BOOK (HARDCOVER)RUDOLF STEINER PRESS

$60.00187 PAGES




Speech & Drama

THE SOULS’ AWAKENING

A Mystery DramaRUDOLF STEINER

Translated by Hans & Ruth Pusch

Written in 1914 (CW 14)

IN THE fourth mystery drama, an enlightened

entrepreneur 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.


$12.955 ¼ X 8192 PAGES

THE SOUL’S AWAKENING

A Drama of the Soul & SpiritRudolf SteinerTranslated by Michael Burton &Adrian Locher

Written in 1914 (CW 14)

ALTERNATE TRANSLATION for Portal Productions’ mid-1990s international tour

of the drama.ISBN: 090469366X


$12.95144 PAGES

WORKING TOGETHER ON RUDOLF STEINER’S MYSTERY DRAMAS

HANS PUSCH

HANS AND Ruth Pusch directed perfor-mances in America and translated the four

plays into English. An excellent workbook for performing the plays and for insight into the plays’ spiritual content and significance.


$9.95160 PAGES

HARDCOVER; ISBN: 0910142904; $15.95

Science & Nature

THE FOURTH DIMENSION

Sacred Geometry, Alchemy & MathematicsRUDOLF STEINER

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)

THE POINT, line, plane and solid objects repre-

sent the first three dimen-sions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a fourth dimen-sion. 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 lad-der that reaches up to literally infinite heights.

Topics include: • the relationship between geometric studies and developing direct per-ception of spiritual realities • how to con-struct 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 rela-tionship to physical space • more.


$24.95256 PAGES

ECLIPSES 2005–2017A Handbook of Solar and Lunar Eclipses & Other Rare Astronomical EventsWOLFGANG HELD

THIS HANDBOOK for eclipse viewers gives

detailed information on 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.


$19.95224 PAGES

ECO-GEOGRAPHY

What We See When We Look at LandscapesANDREAS SUCHANTKE

WHETHER YOU travel across the coun-

try, to work, or to your 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 savan-nahs 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 land-scapes 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 writ-ing. 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 expe-rienced 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 eco-logical 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 exten-sively in Waldorf teacher train-

ing programs around the world. Suchantke works in Israel in cooperation with the Society for the Protection of Nature.

Includes eighty illustrations.ISBN: 0940262991BOOK (PAPERBACK)LINDISFARNE BOOKS

$18.95256 PAGES

S c i e n c e & N a t u r e


CHILDHOOD And Human EvolutionFRIEDRICH KIPP

KIPP SHOWS that child-hood and youth—an

extended period of nurture and protection from the struggle for existence—is a necessary condition for human evolution. His com-parative 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 developmen-tal stage, animals show characteristics reminis-cent 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.


$14.95128 PAGES

DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS In Humans and Other PrimatesDiscovering Evolutionary Principles through Comparative MorphologyJOS VERHULST

VERHULST ELABORATES the evolutionary

theory that dynamic prin-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 juve-nile 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.


$24.95432 PAGES

DOES IT MATTER?The Unsustainable World of the MaterialistsGRAHAM DUNSTAN MARTIN

MATERIALISTS CLAIM that the mind, con-

sciousness, life, evolution, and the universe itself can be explained as a purpose-less dance of unconscious particles governed by chance. Does It Matter? asks: does materialism, in fact, make sense?

Martin delves into areas as diverse as quan-tum physics, cosmology, artificial intelligence, brain science, biology, mysticism, and philoso-phy to assess the possibilities that the mate-rialists 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 experi-ence 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.


$40.00256 PAGES

EARTH-FRIENDLY

Re-Visioning Science and Spirituality through Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas & Rudolf SteinerSR. ADRIAN HOFSTETTER

EARTH-FRIENDLY REPRESENTS the fruits

of a lifetime of study and 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

the East to create an ‘Earth-friendly re-vision-ing of science and spirituality.’”

Sister Adrian Hofstetter is a Dominican nun, science teacher, and civil rights activist.


$20.00192 PAGES

GOETHE AND THE POWER OF RHYTHM

A Biographical EssayJOHN BARNES

BARNES TRACES a pow-erful 18.6 year rhythm

in Goethe’s biography, showing how his creative genius unfolded through repeated periods of crises and renewal. The fact that this rhythm corre-sponds 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.


$10.0096 PAGES

THE HERITAGE OF TREES

History, Culture & SymbolismFRED HAGENEDER

A WIDE-RANGING STUDY of the sym-

bolism and cultural 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 mean-ings of the forest from the Stone Age to mod-ern times.


$40.00224 PAGES




EMERSON AND SCIENCE

PETER OBUCHOWSKI

THIS STUDY of Emerson’s ideas explores

the scientific influences and aspects in his literature as it relates to Goethe’s scien-tific worldview in the con-text 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 profes-sor emeritus. He has written numerous articles on literature of the Romantic period.


$25.00144 PAGES

THE ORIGINS OF NATURAL SCIENCE

RUDOLF STEINER

9 lectures, Dornach, Dec. 1922– Jan. 1923 (CW 326)


STEINER TRACES the subtle changes in human notions and feelings in relation to

the development of natural science and shows 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.


$10.95148 PAGES

HOPE, EVOLUTION, AND CHANGE

JOHN DAVY


THIS BOOK reflects the author’s work as sci-entist, journalist, and lecturer. It includes

articles on evolution, language, education, science, caring for the planet, life after life, and thinkers such as E. F. Schumacher and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.


$13.95274 PAGES

FLOWFORMS

The Rhythmic Power of WaterJOHN WILKES

ACCORDING TO John Wilkes, water is

the universal bearer of 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 dis-cusses 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.

ISBN: 0863153925BOOK (PAPERBACK)LANTERN BOOKS, FLORIS BOOKS

$35.00208 PAGES

THE ENIGMA OF SUNSPOTS

A Story of Discovery & Scientific RevolutionJUDIT BRODY

The author describes a strange

and powerful phenom-ena that may hold a key to our understanding of the Sun. Judit Brody tells the fascinating his-tory 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 His-tory and Philosophy of Science and writes for scientific publications, including New Scientist magazine.


$25.00168 PAGES

GOETHE ON SCIENCE

An Anthology of Goethe’s Scientific WritingsJOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Jeremy Naydler, editor • foreword by Henri Bortoft

IT WAS Goethe’s belief that we should study

nature and our world as our home. He adopted a qualitative approach to science — one at odds with Newtonian, quanti-tative 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 fundamen-tally unique approach to scientific study of the natural world.


$25.00144 PAGES

NEW EYES FOR PLANTS

MARGARET COLQUHOUN & AXEL EWALD

THIS BOOK is about a different way of

seeing and understand-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 think-ing 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


$30.00160 PAGES



SCIENCE


Edited by Howard Smith

THIS VOLUME of the “Pocket Library of

Spiritual Wisdom Series” gives an overview of Steiner’s ideas related to science, presented from the perspec-tive 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 organ-isms: Goethe’s method; the quest for arche-typal 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.


$18.95256 PAGES

THE MARRIAGE OF SENSE & THOUGHT

Imaginative Participation in ScienceSTEPHEN EDELGLASS, GEORG MAIER, HANS GEBERT & JOHN DAVY

ALTHOUGH SENSORY experience has provided

a firm basis for empirical natural science, contem-porary 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 veloc-ity 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: 0940262827BOOK (PAPERBACK)LINDISFARNE BOOKS

$16.95160 PAGES

THE MYSTERY OF PHYSICAL LIFE

E. L. GRANT WATSON

Preface by Owen Barfield Foreword by Ralph Twentyman

E . L. Grant Watson, an English field naturalist,

zoologist, and a popular nature writer, spent his life trying to bring nature and consciousness into a uni-fied, 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 Chris-tian gnostic literature and the Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner—brought him to an imagi-native perception of living things based on the conviction of the presence in all things of a spiritual reality.


$16.95224 PAGES

NATURE’S OPEN SECRET

Introductions to Goethe’s Scientific WritingsRUDOLF STEINER

Written 1884–1897 (CW 1)

Edited and introduced by John Barnes

AT THE young age of twenty-one, Steiner was

chosen to edit Goethe’s scientific writings—to under-stand and comment on his unique scientific achieve-ment. 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 begin-ning 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.


$35.00320 PAGES

THINKING BEYOND DARWIN

The Idea of the Type as a Key to Vertebrate EvolutionERNST-MICHAEL KRANICH

KRANICH FOCUSES on a central problem of

evolutionary science and, based on Goethe’s scien-tific investigations, demon-strates the coherence and inner dynamics of organ-isms. 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.


$17.95192 PAGES

PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY

LAWRENCE EDWARDS

THE EXERCISES in this book reveal the secrets of space. With over 200 instructive dia-

grams, Edwards presents a clear, artistic expla-nation of non-Euclidian geometry, leading the reader into imaginative space. A valuable resource for teachers that demystifies this fasci-nating approach to geometry.

Laurence Edwards, the author of The Vortex of Life, has researched and taught this subject for more than forty years.


$34.95352 PAGES

THE SUN

The Ancient Mysteries and a New PhysicsGEORG BLATTMANN

USING EXAMPLES from art history, astrophys-ics, and the Gospels, Blattmann examines

the Sun and reaches startling conclusions about its interior through projective geometry and, ultimately, shows the spiritual connection between the Sun and Christ.


$16.95238 PAGES




THE TOURMALINE

A MonographFRIEDRICH BENESCH & BERNHARD WOHRMANN

THE EXTRAORDINARY qualities of the mys-

terious tourmaline are 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 corre-spondence 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 treat-ment of the tourmaline. At the heart of this monograph are approximately 400 color pho-tographs 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 mean-ings, which remained unacknowledged for centuries.

This is a book that your family will treasure for generations to come.

ISBN: 3825174050BOOK (HARDCOVER) 12” X 16”URACHHAUS

$150.00248 PAGES

AURORA

The Northern Lights in Mythology, History and ScienceHARALD FALCK-YTTER

THE COLORFUL 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 ethe-real 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 mythol-ogy that surrounds the aurora in various northern cultures. He also discusses the sci-ence behind the phenomenon, as it has devel-

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 grad-ual 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.


$19.95 [ QUANTITY LIMITED ]144 PAGES

SENSITIVE CHAOS

The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and AirTHEODOR SCHWENK

Preface by Jacques Cousteau

THIS BEAUTIFULLY illus-trated, classic text on

water 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 illus-trates 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.


$38.00232 PAGES

SKY PHENOMENA

A Guide to Naked-Eye Observation of the StarsNORMAN DAVIDSON

READERS ARE led from the stars as seen from

Earth, through the Sun, Moon, and various planets to the Copernican revolu-tion, to comets and mete-ors, and to the sky of the Southern Hemisphere.

The text includes mythological and his-torical aspects of the subject and numerous

exercises. Also includes a unique collection of poetry of the stars from ancient India to mod-ern times, future astronomical events, technical data, materials and publications, and a com-prehensive 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.

ISBN: 158420026X


$25.00208 PAGES

SCIENCE & THE PARANORMAL

Altered States of RealityARTHUR ELLISON

Foreword by David Fontana

ELLISON, WHO had out-of-body, lucid

dreaming, and clairvoy-ant experiences, writes convincingly about the limits of the scientific worldview and emphasizes the importance of para-normal phenomena and the evidence of parapsychology to revealing the true nature of human beings.

Arthur Ellison was a distinguished profes-sor of engineering and president of the Soci-ety for Psychical Research. He died in 2000.


$40.00384 PAGES

TOWARD A PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ETHERIC WORLD

JOCHEN BOCKEMÜHL, EDITOR

A COLLECTION OF essays that acquaints the

reader with the various aspects of the etheric world and the formative movements and forces that are the very “substance” of life. Illustrated.


$16.95240 PAGES



UNDERSTANDING WATER

Developments from the Work of Theodor SchwenkANDREAS WILKENS, MICHAEL JACOBI & WOLFRAM SCHWENK

PEOPLE HAVE always experienced the life-

giving and healing forces 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.


$25.00112 PAGES

THE WHOLENESS OF NATURE

Goethe’s Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in NatureHenri Bortoft

BORTOFT, 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 par-ticipatory phenomenology, far from being a historical curiosity, proposes a workable solution to the dilemmas of contem-porary, postmodern science.

HENRI BORTOFT taught physics and philoso-phy of science. He lectures and gives seminars on Goethean science.


$29.95424 PAGES

WATER CRYSTALS

Making the Quality of Water VisibleANDREAS SCHULZ

THE AUTHOR 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 differ-ent 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.ISBN: 0863154867BOOK (PAPERBACK)FLORIS BOOKS

$39.00192 PAGES

Biodynamic Farming & Gardening

N e w !

PRINCIPLES OF BIODYNAMIC SPRAY AND COMPOST PREPARATIONS

MANFRED KLETT

MANFRED KLETT, a renowned biodynamic

expert, provides a fascinat-ing overview of the history of agriculture. He then discusses the practicalities of spray and compost prep-arations 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 bio-dynamic 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.


$12.95112 PAGES

WHAT IS BIODYNAMICS?Five LecturesRUDOLF STEINER

Introduction by Hugh Courtney

STEINER’S LECTURES and Courtney’s extensive

introduction offer an entry to understanding the prac-tice of biodynamic meth-ods 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.

ISBN: 0880105402BOOK (PAPERBACK)LANTERN BOOKS, STEINERBOOKS

$18.00200 PAGES

AGRICULTURE


Richard Thornton Smith, editor

THIS COLLECTION provides an ideal overview of bio-

dynamic agricultural meth-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.


$17.95256 PAGES

70 YEARS A-GROWING

JEAN WESTLAKE

THIS ENTICING autobiography tells of the Westlake family—from developing a well-

known vacation retreat to their acclaimed pro-duce. The humor and intriguing stories of this fascinating life contain a gold mine of garden-ing information and is an eminently enjoyable story of a fascinating family. Illustrated.

ISBN: 186989037X


$26.00272 PAGES

B i o d y n a m i c F a r m i n g & G a r d e n i n g


THE BIODYNAMIC SOWING & PLANTING CALENDAR 2007

HERE IS the 2007 edi-tion of the indispensible

calendar and guide to bio-dynamic planting and caring for your garden.

Maria Thun is an author-ity on biodynamics with a lifetime of experience. She also author of Results from the Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar.


$12.9564 PAGES

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2006BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE

WILLY SCHILTHUIS

THIS CONCISE and fully illustrated book presents

evidence that biodynamic crops put down deeper roots, show strong resistance to dis-ease 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 biody-namics.


$14.95128 PAGES

THE AGRICULTURE COURSE

The Birth of the Biodynamic MethodRUDOLF STEINER

Preface by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer 8 lectures, Koberwitz, Jun 7–16, 1924 (CW 327)

WITH THESE talks, Steiner launched the “biodynamic” methods for farming — a

form of agriculture that has come to be 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 pre-scribes “preparations” for the soil and meth-ods derived from his deep understanding of the physical and spiritual worlds.


$26.00176 PAGES

DEVELOPING BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE

Reflections on Early ResearchADALBERT COUNT KEYSERLINGK

KEYSERLINGK WAS pres-ent when biodynamic

methods were introduced by Rudolf Steiner. His book reflects his life-long absorp-tion in biodynamic methods. It presentspersonal experi-ences of Steiner at work, reflections on research and experimentation (including photographic documentation), and descrip-tions of biodynamic preparations.


$19.95112 PAGES

GARDENING FOR LIFE

The Biodynamic WayMARIA THUN

SHOWS THE best times to plant various veg-etables; how to deal with pests and diseases;

ways to build the soil; and the effects of plan-ets and stars on plant growth.


$30.00128 PAGES

RESULTS FROM THE BIODYNAMIC SOWING AND PLANTING CALENDAR

MARIA THUN

THIS BOOK discusses cos-mic rhythms and shows

the most suitable days to help prevent disease and pests. Methods of fertil-izing and spraying have been developed that further enhance produce and allow a sustainable and ecologi-cally balanced agriculture.

Includes sections on the stars, the soil, com-posting and manuring, weeds, and pests, as well as growing cereals, vegetables, herbs, fruit and vineyards.


$30.00224 PAGES

Star Wisdom

CHRISTIAN HERMETIC ASTROLOGY

The Star of the Magi and the Life of ChristROBERT POWELL

WHO WERE the three wise men and what

was “the Star of the 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: 0880104619BOOK (PAPERBACK)STEINERBOOKS

$14.95 [ LIMITED QUANTITY ]312 PAGES

COSMIC CHRISTIANITY & the Changing Countenance of CosmologyWILLI SUCHER

SUCHER DISCUSSES the relationship between the cosmos and Christ’s activities during his

three years of earthly ministry. He describes 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 mathemat-ics in the Anthroposophi-cal Society. He devoted almost sixty years to devel-oping “star wisdom,” or astrosophy, which he considered most appro-priate for modern humanity.


$16.95224 PAGES

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Collected Works Publishing Process and Costs

Loyal readers and supporters,Talking to friends, we are often

surprised to find out that many people believe Steiner-Books to be a profitable business — sometimes even believing that, rather than requiring support, we should in fact be helping to support less “commer-cial” anthroposophical ventures.

In part, this misperception means we are doing a good job. As Steiner-Books (Anthroposophic Press), it is our mission to bring Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy into the cul-tural mainstream. We try to make our books and catalogs as pleasing to the eye, heart, and mind as we can. In everything we do, we try to be as professional, attractive, and dynamic as possible.

We actively promote the works of Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy so as to make the name of “Rudolf Steiner” universally known and recognized. To this end, we attend the major bookselling shows, as well as academic meetings like the American Academy of Religion and the American Education Research Association, not to mention environmen-tal and other meetings like the Bioneers Conference. To the best of our ability, we try to function like a professional trade publisher, working in every way like a business.

All this can give the impression that we are a commercial publishing business. In fact, however, we are not a commercial publisher in any sense of the term.

Publishing Rudolf Steiner is not a profitable business. If it were, major houses would be competing to publish him. In fact, every book we publish must be funded in order to break even. Our struggle is not to make an annual profit, but rather to balance our budget while con-tinuing to grow, which we must do to fulfill our mission.

We are an independent 501(c) 3 not-for-profit corporation, incorpo-rated in New York State. The Anthroposophical Society does not fund us, nor does the Rudolf Steiner Foundation or any other foundation. We do not have an endowment that would help cover any shortfalls. In fact, to do business, we depend entirely on the support of individu-als like you — in terms of both the books you buy and the gifts you make. We are deeply grateful for all the support we receive through books you buy and gifts you make. We cannot emphasize this enough. We could not do our work without you. Indeed, from our perspective, the work we do is work that we do together.

Without you — the primary community of those who recognize the vital, future-oriented value of Rudolf Steiner’s contribution to human evolution — we would be unable to carry Rudolf Steiner’s message to the wider public and nurture the fragile seed of Anthroposophy as the ferment necessary to spiritualize world culture.

Under the sign of our collaboration, then, and in the interests of transparency — as well as perhaps to dispel some misconceptions — we would therefore like to explain some of the finances of publishing.

1. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF RUDOLF STEINER

As you know, we have begun the undertaking — long overdue — of publishing the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner in English. The project began with an announcement in our brochure called “Mission, Vision, Plans” (which we presented at our First SteinerBooks Seminar in March 2003). It included a section devoted to the ideal of publish-ing a uniform edition of all of Rudolf Steiner’s works in English.

A generous gift from an anonymous donor at the end of 2004 enabled us to begin the project. Since then, we have made two more appeals and are grateful for the generous support received from our readers and from the Mid-States Shared Gifting Group.

As a result of the three appeals, we have received to date a total of $268,933. Of this, we have so far spent $179,218.

With all the new books commissioned and the new editions going into the series, we have committed to actual expenses of approx $350,000 in total. Therefore, since we have only received $268,933 so far, we are still short $80,000 for books on the following list. This does not include all the others still to be finished.

HOW WE HAVE SPENT THE MONEY:

1) We have eleven new translations commissioned and in various stages of production. These include:

CW 152 Approaching the Mystery of GolgothaCW 211 The Sun Mystery, Esoteric and Exoteric Christianity CW 217 a Youth and the Etheric HeartCW 182 Death as Change CW 265 Freemasonry and Ritual WorkCW 266/1 Esoteric Lessons Volume 1(1904-1909)CW 266/2 Esoteric Lessons Volume 2 (1909 –1914) CW 284 The Rosicrucian Unity of Art, Science, and ReligionCW 218 Spiritual Relations in the Human OrganismCW 179 The Influence of the Dead on DestinyCW 342 Anthroposophical Foundations for a Renewed Chriostian-

Religious Activity (Priests’ Course, vol 1)

2) We are also putting new editions of existing translations into the Collected Works. All of these have new introductions, notes, and indexes. In addition, many of the translations have been checked for accuracy against the original German texts and revised accordingly:

CW 8 Christianity as Mystical FactCW 16/17 Way of Self Knowledge & Threshold of the Spiritual World; CW 28 AutobiographyCW 110 Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World CW121 The Mission of Folk SoulsCW 132 The Truth of Evolution CW 134 World of the Senses, World of the SpiritCW 136 Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies CW 142/146 Bhagavad Gita and the West CW 145 The Effects of Esoteric DevelopmentCW 217 Becoming Michael’s Companions CW 264 From the Contents of the First Esoteric SchoolCW 312 Introducing Anthroposophical MedicineCW 319 The Healing Process CW 340 World Economy

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


THIS IS HOW THE PROCESS WORKS FOR A TITLE IN THE COLLECTED WORKS SERIES:

1. Christopher Bamford, our Editor in Chief, consults with many people and

recommends a volume. Our publishing team then recommends that the work be commissioned for translation.

2. Having chosen a translator, we sign a contract with that person. Our usual translation rate is $75 per thousand words, somewhat on the lower end of normal translation rates. There is no such thing as an average Steiner text, but if we were to translate a book of 256 pages, or around 100,000 words, the translation would cost approximately $7,500.

3. Four to eight months after the contract is signed, the translation arrives in our office. Our Managing Editor (Mary Giddens) looks at the translation with Christopher, and someone is assigned a) to check it against the German and b) to copyedit the manuscript. The cost of checking and editing is approximately $1500 to $2500 (depending on the quality of the original English translation).

4. Someone is assigned to write notes at a cost of about $500.

4. The corrected text is then returned to the translator, who answers any questions that have arisen, responds to suggestions, and considers and approves (or disapproves) the edits.

5. In the meantime, Christopher will have researched and written an introduction to the work, which is then added to the edited manuscript.

6. Mary then sends whole book to a designer, who lays out book in pages. At the same time, a cover will be designed. The cost of both is about $2000.

7. Once the text is formatted into pages, the book is sent to be indexed at a cost of approximately $750.

8. Upon return of the manuscript with an index, the book is then sent to a proofreader; the cost is about $500.

9. Mary then takes a final look at the manuscript and makes final changes: about $500.

10. The book then goes to the printer. The printing cost for a 256-page paperback book with a 2000-copy print run is about $6000.

Consequently, at the end of publishing process, the usual cost for a book of 256 pages in the Collected Works is about $20,000.

Normal publication time for book, from translation to final product, is about 15 months.

• • • • •

Just so you are clear, all monies donated to the Collected Works project are spent on the Collected Works project. Because our staff spends most of its time working on this great project, and because we must pay salaries, rent, and so on, 30% of all the money donated as an allocation is used for overhead (this is normal university press standards). Naturally, too, every dollar produced from selling books goes back into the business.

2. GENERAL PUBLISHING PROCESS AND COSTS

As you know, we publish not only books by Rudolf Steiner, but also books by contemporary living authors writing out of an anthropos-ophic understanding. We also publish children’s books with some con-nections to Waldorf education, and books on general spirituality writ-ten out of a “Michaelic” spirit.

We feel that it is important that we be seen as a modern publisher, addressing the needs of the time. It is also our conviction that Rudolf Steiner is best introduced to the general public by a contemporary voice writing for a North American audience.

The authors with whom we work include Edward Smith, Charles Tid-ball, Dennis Klocek, Michael Lipson, Henry Barnes, Marco Pogacnik, Joan deRis Allen, Linda Sussman, Julian Barnard, Torin Finser, Shelley Davidow, Diana Cohn, Christopher Schaefer, Robert MacDermott,

Sharifa Oppenheimer, David Dalton, Robert Sardello, Nancy Mellon, Christine Murphy, Claire Blatchford, and Robert Zieve.

In general, the publication of these contemporary books follows the procedure just described, except that we do not need to translate the manuscripts. As a result, each new book costs, on average, between $11,000 and $13,000. At the same time, we must, of course, remain in business, maintain our tiny staff, and pay our over-head costs. Therefore, a more realistic cost for publishing each book would include an additional 30% over that estimate.

This brings our average unit cost to about $6 per copy. This figure is on high

side because we do not print large numbers of our titles. The reason for this is that we cannot sell large numbers of each publication. The average print run is 1500 to 2000 copies. Unit costs begin to fall at around 7500-unit print runs. The retail cost of a book is usually computed by industry standards at six times the unit cost, since most books are sold by the publisher to resellers at an aver-age 50% discount. In other words, a hardback published by us should retail for about $42 and a paperback for $36.

Clearly, the retail price cannot be that high; we have to price accord-ing to the average in the marketplace. At best, in order to break even, at least half of the cost of every book we publish needs to be supported by gifts. In general, this is how university press and professional asso-ciation publishing work — their books are heavily subsidized. Because SteinerBooks is still struggling to get out of an annual deficit and chronic cash-flow shortage, every book needs to find a community of funders to subsidize its publication.

3. DISTRIBUTING, PROMOTING, AND SELLING OUR BOOKS

Publishing is only half of our job; the other half is selling what we publish. We do this through four main channels:

i. through our catalogsii. through our website iii. through the major trade wholesalers and retailers (Amazon, Ingram, Baker

and Taylor, and, when we can, the chains — Barnes and Noble, Borders, and

W h a t L i e s b e h i n d O u r F u n d r a i s i n g A p p e a l s

Without the primary community of those who recognize

the vital value of Rudolf Steiner’s contribution to human evolution, we could not carry Rudolf Steiner’s message into the wider public and thus nurture the fragile seed of Anthroposophy as the necessary ferment that will spiritualize culture.



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 stan-dard 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 move-ments. 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, maintain-ing 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 (includ-ing 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.

4. ONGOING GOALS AND NEEDS

We feel that publishing the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner in English is the single most necessary task if Anthroposophy is to have a chance of fulfilling its healing role in human evolution. It is a task for the future. We have no illusions that Anthroposophy will be completely accepted and practiced overnight. But if we make the vessel available, as

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W h a t L i e s b e h i n d O u r F u n d r a i s i n g A p p e a l s

“A properly written anthroposophic book should awaken the spiritual life of

the reader, and not merely be a collection of information. Reading it should be more than reading; it should be an experience accompanied by inner shocks, tensions, and resolutions.”

— Rudolf Steiner (Autobiography)


Introduction

by Christopher Bamford

RUDOLF STEINER’S lifework was dedicated to the proposition that the critical conditions of our time require a fundamental metanoia,

or transformation of consciousness. For this reason, at the heart of his 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 founda-tions 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-encyclope-dic richness in his work, Steiner found himself inevi-tably engaged in a perpetual struggle against people’s natural and enthusiastic tendency to emphasize infor-mation 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 con-tent 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,, transfigura-tion — of the spiritual suprasensory and sensory worlds.

From his earliest years, Steiner experienced that the omnipresent, cre-ative 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 con-scious, 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 confirma-tion 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 pro-cesses of the world” — that human cognition, or consciousness, is in principle limitless in its capacity to know. As he put it in Intuitive Think-ing 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 real-ized 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 paradigm-shifting 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 practitio-ner 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 exper-iments, 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 con-versely 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 sense-free 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 extraor-dinary 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

A Way of Self-Knowledge



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 able.” But the personal is so intensely realized that it becomes universal. If one reads the book meditatively, intensely, and with passion — taking in Steiner’s account as a blueprint to realize the same experiences in one’s own way — then, as he repeatedly insisted throughout his years as a spiritual teacher, Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path is the prerequisite for true spiritual knowing: spiritual science, or Anthroposophy. At the time of writing, however, Steiner’s explicit outer aim remained cultural rather than esoteric; he wished to influence the philosophical and epis-temological foundations of the age and addressed the philosophers and scientists of his time. Not surprisingly, his message was ignored; but another field was being prepared.

With the decision six years later to work esoterically as a spiritual teacher within the Theosophical Society, the context of Rudolf Stein-er’s task and the audience changed. The contexts, as well as the rules determining what he could speak of, were both altered. While still depending on the achieve-ments of Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path, the language was no longer primarily “philosoph-ical,” but now essentially meditative, or spiri-tual. Given the Theosophical content, the task became to realize them in experience — to release their meanings from brain-bound con-sciousness. Method, or path, therefore became more basic than ever, as did the human episte-mological situation that defined his audience.

Steiner turned the spiritual cognitive facul-ties he had developed during the previous thirty years toward researching explicitly spiritual realities. Thus, the question of method became even more pressing on two counts. First, he felt the responsibility of ensuring that the content pouring superabundantly out of his own research would be understood in a new way: as living realities. Understood in the “old,” conventional way, content remained just content, and only the contents of their respective systems would distinguish an Anthroposophist from a Marxist or any other “-ist.” Second, Steiner was dedicated to the evolution and transformation of consciousness and knew that anyone could attain the suprasensory fac-ulties he had achieved. The “Kali Yuga” was over; a new age of spiritual consciousness was dawning; humanity was passing over the threshold into the invisible world. It was Rudolf Steiner’s task to help the age now unfolding to achieve spiritual knowledge for itself. Contemplative cognitive transformation — meditation — became principal focus of his work on all fronts.

Steiner is, in fact, always teaching meditation. The form of his books and lectures, even when not explicitly teaching meditation, is always meditative, that is, bearing the fruits of meditation and potentially productive of meditation on the reader’s part. The living flow of consciousness — the way in which ideas, feelings, and intentions interac-tively unfold, forming a sequence of images often misread as “content” or “information” as their trace or fringe — as well as the mantric qual-ity of individual sentences and even paragraphs, bears witness to this. But besides teaching meditation, as it were, by example in this way, a significant portion — more than is usually recognized; indeed, probably a third of his work — is primarily meditative in intention.

Broadly speaking, this meditative work falls into several different forms, all of which are continuous with his teaching career.

1. Many lectures and many parts of lectures are related to meditation and its various states (which he called imagination, inspiration, and intuition).

2. There is the sequence of books, wholly or partially concerned explicitly with inner development — from Theosophy (CW9/1904), How to Know High Worlds (CW10 /1905), Stages of Higher Knowledge (CW12/1908), and An Outline of Esoteric Science (CW13/1910) to the present volume (CW15 and 16/1912–1913). Steiner’s four mystery dramas (CW14/1910–1913) should probably be added to this list. Technically they are plays, works of literary art, but they are also initiatory dramas and therefore reveal their meaning only through meditation or enacting them meditatively.

3. There is a vast amount of meditation instruction and meditations related to the two classes of the Esoteric School (CW 264, 265, 266 (I, II, III), 267, 268), which become at the end of his life (1923/4) the “First Class Lessons” of the High School of Spiritual Science.

4. There are the meditations and letters of instruction and guidance given to individual students. These are important, for they make is clear that, as the

“teacher,” Rudolf Steiner was primarily a meditation teacher.

Though it might not seem so at first glance, there was both a shift and perfect continu-ity in Steiner’s inner path when he entered the explicitly esoteric stream represented by Theosophy. Before the turn of the century, the focus of Steiner’s inner work was philo-sophical — epistemological — and individual. It was framed above all by his passionate desire for truth and freedom and his under-standing that contemporary consciousness demanded that this path unfold transparently

through experience purified of preconceptions arising from the conditioned organism. He made this path his own and received significant results from it, including a profound experience of the Christ. Entering Theosophy, he was faced with entire and, in a sense, finished traditions of inner work, which he had to penetrate, open, transform, and formalize in the light of what he knew in order to create a “new” esoteric school consonant with the epistemological founda-tions he knew — from experience — to be necessary.

Thus, his framework — his language — moved from philosophy to meditation. The process remained the same: the gradual liberation of consciousness from its conditioning to become a true, free organ for the cognition of spiritual realities. In other words, he became a medita-tion teacher. Exercises and practices, all of which he practiced, flowed from him. His students had to accustom themselves to daily medita-tion. For a regular, fixed period, they tried to permeate their whole organism with a deep reverence, inner peace, and silence. This was the first stage: reverent, peaceful waiting gradually taking the place of the usual inner babble and outer sensations. Then some spiritual “idea” in the form of a sentence or image was placed in the center of conscious-ness — usually paradoxical in the sense that its logic or form could not be thought by the brain or experienced by the organically conditioned feelings. The purpose was not to understand the idea (image or feel-ing), but to let it come to life within in a special way. As Steiner wrote to a student in 1904:

We must learn to submit to it totally, allowing all its power to radiate within us. We must learn to love it. If we think we have understood it, this simply means the time has come to let it shine within us again. Our intellectual understanding is not the point. 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 of inner sight awakens within us.

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Steiner is, in fact, always teaching meditation. The

form of his books and lectures, even when not explicitly teaching meditation, is always meditative.


In a way, that, too, is how Rudolf Steiner expected us to read his works.Besides such explicit meditation practice, Steiner considered other

exercises equally important, all of which worked in different ways to free the soul from the dominance of the physical and psychic organism and nurture its cognitive, perceptive organs and faculties. Chief among these exercises are the six so-called “supplementary (or complementary)” exercises, each of which in different ways both overcomes the automa-tisms to which we are all conditioned and, in doing so, reveals a new ability of the heart in the face of life. The six are 1) control of think-ing; 2) control of action (will); 3) equanimity, or control of feeling; 4) impartiality (open-mindedness, trust, forbearance); 5) trust (continual openness toward life); and 6) inner harmony. To these should be added the so-called backward review, or retrospect, which strengthens the soul’s capacity to live in memory and gradually creates an “organ” capa-ble of body-free cognition of the astral world.

Many of these teachings were given orally, while the foundations were laid down in the books. Early Anthroposophists who followed Rudolf Steiner lived in a world permeated at every level by the ideal of spiritual practice or meditative thinking leading to selfless action. As from the very beginning, the essence, or fundamental framework, remained thinking. For Rudolf Steiner, living, brain-free thinking neces-sarily constituted the only healthy basis for spiritual practice in our time.

Besides such thinking and the practices of concentration, attention, and absorp-tion upon which it depends, other facul-ties and practices were of paramount importance. It is worth listing them, for each is a meditation in itself. In no particular order, these practices enhanced and transformed basic cognitive thinking: a mood of reverence, or devotion; a purified openness of heart and soul, made habitual; the practice of inner silence, or emptiness; learning to think with pictures or images (feelings), building them up, holding them, and allowing them to fill one’s consciousness; developing the inner qualities of patience, steadfastness, trust, and solidarity with all beings; strength-ening the memory.

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The years 1912 and 1913, when Rudolf Steiner wrote the two remarkable short meditative works on spiritual development collected in this volume, were critical both for the world and for the development of Anthroposophy. World War I had already cast its shadow across the spiritual horizon. Seemingly unconnected, the Theosophical Movement was likewise beset with turmoil and fatally destructive emotion.

One way or another, the immediate source of the turmoil (and the present books) lie in the phenomenon of Charles Leadbeater (1854–1934), the prominent Theosophical author, clergyman, and accomplished clairvoyant. In 1906, Leadbeater was forced to resign from the Theosophical Society because of sexual misconduct with young boys. For Steiner, Leadbeater’s lapse was a consequence of his

“methods of spiritual research,” which, though perhaps leading to true insights, were “dangerous and apt to mislead.” Steiner wrote, “The case of Leadbeater came as no surprise to me.”

In a letter to Annie Besant, Steiner went further, stating that such “occult methods necessarily lead in certain cases to this or other mistakes similar to those evinced in Mr. Leadbeater’s case.” Not unexpectedly, it was Steiner’s view that the “psychic” methods undertaken by Leadbeater

to achieve his level of clairvoyance must, in the absence of a guru, be accompanied by the careful, conscious “mental” development of thinking:

“the development of a stage of consciousness that consists of inwardly contemplative insight.” As preparation for this, Steiner naturally recom-mends the study of the German idealists Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.

Steiner’s point, as we have seen, is that spiritual research in the West must begin with thinking, “ordinary” thinking. The only healthy way to clairvoyant cognition is through the enlivening of ordinary thinking through practices of meditative attention and concentration. There is no “leap” to higher psychic or spiritual levels without it:

Thought is the same on all planes. Whenever thought is devel-oped — whether on the physical or on a higher plane — it will be a guide in everything if it is free from the senses and grasped in “I” consciousness. If it is first developed on the physical lev-

el — according to present Western brain formation — it will then continue to be a reliable guide throughout all stages of sensory and suprasensory knowledge. If this is missing, Westerners wander about without a rudder, whether they are mov-ing on the physical or a higher plane. At the present time, when all human higher powers are so closely linked with the powers belonging to the lower levels of the sexual realm, a slip such as Mr. Lead-beater’s can occur at any time. . . . With good foresight into the peculiarities of our fifth cultural epoch, the masters of

the Rosicrucian school have elaborated the “path” that is the only one appropriate for a Western person in the current cycle of development.

Clearly, it was thus only a matter of time and the right circumstances until Rudolf Steiner would practice what he was saying and establish

“Western” Theosophy on a true Christian, Rosicrucian footing. The opportunity came the following year. The president of the

Theosophical Society, H. S. Olcott, died, and a successor had to be elected. Annie Besant was the natural candidate. The election, 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 beings into the election process and to the fact that the head of the Esoteric Section would also become the president — two roles he considered incompatible. Steiner and the German Section nevertheless supported Besant’s successful candidacy. Shortly thereafter, at the well-documented Munich Congress, Steiner’s Anthroposophical-Rosicrucian Theosophy showed its true colors for the first time. Because of these two realities — one political, the other spiritual — Besant gracefully acknowledged both her own incompetence with regard to esoteric Christianity and Steiner’s primacy in this area and gave him permission to form a school along his own lines.

Leadbeater’s karma, however, was by no means exhausted. He began to foment the idea of a “coming teacher” or “bodhisattva being” — a

“second coming” of Christ physically. In April 1909, he discovered such a person in the fourteen-year-old Jiddu Krishnamurti. Over the next years, Krishnamurti — around whom an international movement called

“The Star in the East” was formed — gradually became the central focus of Theosophical activity. For Rudolf Steiner, this was false and contradicted the very meaning of the Christ.


Spiritual research in the West must begin with thinking,

“ordinary” thinking. The only healthy way to clairvoyant cognition is through the enlivening of ordinary thinking through practices of meditative attention and concentration.



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.”

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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.

A Way to Self-Knowledge, written in July and August 1912, while Rudolf Steiner was finishing his third mystery drama, The Guardian of the Thresh-old (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, contemplat-ing 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 transform-ing 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 strik-ing 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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Warm Baritone Voice

Walter Abendroth

WALTER ABENDROTH, a composer and respected musical critic, was active

in Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg, where 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.

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 ema-nated 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 impos-sible to hide how much backbiting there was in the Anthroposophical

Society. It started with the naïve arrogance directed at non-anthrop-osophists, 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

Friedrich Eckstein

FRIEDRICH ECKSTEIN was born the same year as Steiner. He was a Viennese chemist, parchment maker, private student of Anton

Bruckner, and also a self-taught student of literature and philoso-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 meet-ings 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 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 distin-guished scholar of ancient knowledge,” had his regular seat at the liter-ary 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 medi-tation 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

The Other Steiner: Snapshots of Rudolf Steiner

Translated by Mado Spiegler

Rudolf Steiner, 1891



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 indi-viduals. 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 humor-ist 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 corre-spondents 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, beard-less 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. . . .

Around that time, too, there appeared in our circle a completely beardless, pale young man, very slender, with long, dark hair. Sharp glasses gave his look something piercing. With his knee-length black wool coat, the buttoned vest, the black Lavaliere bow tie and the very old-fashioned “soft” top hat, he looked alto-gether like an undernourished theology student. His name was Rudolf Steiner. I had often met him earlier in the company of the famous Goethe scholar, Prof. Karl-Julius Schröer, and we had had many vigorous debates about Goethe’s symbolism. Meanwhile, he had heard somehow that I was in touch with the much-hallowed Madame Blavatsky and leading members of the Theosophic society in Madras.

Steiner explained to me how much he wanted to learn about these things, and asked me to initiate him in the “secret doctrine.” This was the beginning of regular meetings with him, which went on for many years and eventually led (after many transformations and setbacks) to the development of his anthroposophic system. He didn’t encounter much of an echo among the other habitués of the

Griensteidl circle. He and Hermann Bahr were always at logger-heads, 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

THE GERMAN-CZECH painter Josef Rolletschek, writing under the pseudonym Joseph Rollet was one of Steiner’s acquaintances in

Weimar.

Let me say right away: I am neither a Theosophist nor an Anthrop-osophist, 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.

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 something of a daemonic fascination. Out of his thin, well-formed face, whose features were strikingly reminiscent of the poet Robert Hamerling, two unnaturally large, very dark eyes, shone with a curious light. I never again saw such eyes. The thin lips were shadowed by

a thin moustache; thick black hair combed back from the large, round forehead, from which occasionally a disobe-dient strand would fall over his face. He was always dressed in black, with a flowing Byron tie. When he walked, even in the heat of summer, he used to stick the finger of his crossed hands in his sleeves, as if he were cold. When he and his friend and colleague Dr. Fresenius would walk through the respectably quiet streets of the town, it was an image one could hardly miss: Steiner, whose silhouette with the slender clothes looked taller than he was; his black-hatted head tilted back, the eyes looking up searchingly; and Fresenius, short, with a full white beard and his head tilted toward the ground. Thus. they would stroll by, slowly, solemnly, and mea-suredly, followed by the amused gaze of passersby.

T h e O t h e r S t e i n e r

With his knee-length black wool coat, the

buttoned vest, the black Lavaliere bow tie and the very old-fashioned “soft” top hat, he looked altogether like an undernourished theology student. His name was Rudolf Steiner.


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 Schiller-strasse, 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 Gany-mede 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 croco-dile).

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.

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 chil-dren’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 under-stood 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 Wei-mar, begging her to come to Berlin and help order his affairs. She was a handsome widow, a few years older than he, and she imme-diately 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

and Anna Eunike’s long relationship and eventual marriage is dis-proved 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 theo-sophical 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 associa-tion (Schlaraffia), I called out to him, seated in the cir-cle 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 cross-ing 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.”

“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

RALPH COURTNEY spent his school years in London (St. Paul School) and Oxford (Brasenose College). His mother became

a student and friend of Rudolf Steiner. After his law studies, he worked initially for publishing houses before becoming a correspon-dent 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

Rudolf Steiner, oil by Joseph Rolletschek, Weimar ca. 1894




hudredth birthday (February 1961), he described his encounter with him.

I first met Rudolf Steiner in Paris. I was no longer a pub-lishing agent, but worked in the offices of Associated Press. My boss was Elmer Roberts. I once mentioned Rudolf Steiner in a conversation, whereupon he opened a drawer filled of anthroposophic books. Roberts had previously worked for associated press in Berlin and had become a student of Rudolf Steiner there. Not long after we had discovered our shared interest, we heard that Steiner would come through Paris on the way back from London. Roberts knew Eugene Levy, with whom Steiner was staying. We posted ourselves in front of the house to meet Steiner, and when he arrived he looked tired, very tired. I was introduced to Mme. Bellecroix, the leader of the Paris group, and at my request I was asked to come for an interview the next day. Right after this conversation I became a member of the Paris group. . . .

People who didn’t have the good fortune of meeting Rudolf Steiner always want to know what sort of impression he made as a person. To tell the truth, I would have to say that I had no impression of what one would call “personality.” People want to know whether he was friendly or serious or forceful or whatever. The impressions I had would not fit into these words. I know that others experi-enced him like that, but for me Steiner simply was! He was to some extent universality itself. It was enough for me that he should exist, which meant that I myself existed, and I felt only that I loved him.

Memories of Rudolf Steiner

By Alwin Albert Rudolph

Memoirs of Rudolf Steiner and his Activities at the Berlin Workers’ School 1899–1904 by Johanna Mücke & Alwin Alfred Rudolph

UNTIL THEN, I had never had as friendly a reception as at his house. I had met many people who had to be won over as teachers or

lecturers. All of them close to us politically, men or women for whom we worked long days and long nights for political demonstrations and elections. Yet they were always surrounded by an aura of sour coolness, and their handshake felt like the paw of a trained dog. Rudolf Steiner, the woman, and her daughter were surrounded by a feeling of hearty spaciousness and openness; nothing was held back. The atmosphere was one of even warmth. One felt held and securely protected, without one’s individuality being taken away.

Whenever someone came to the door, Steiner came forward with fast steps and reached out his hand. I was just one of many people, and he knew next to nothing about me. What I had to offer was quite meager and it felt meager to me.

The slender sinewy figure without any hint of padding was rather like that of a well-trained sprinter, without any of the latter’s man-nerisms. But there were none of the obvious, distinctive signs of the

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 silent, benevolent smile, especially when he greeted you. On the upper lip, a thin youthful moustache looked very good on him and kept within bounds, like the combed back hair. The direct, lively eyes always expressed friendly helpfulness.

No matter when one came, one was never unwelcome. The large desk at the window was always loaded with piles of books and papers. The only free space was right in front of the seat, for a writing pad. And there he was. Before we

entered, he had already stood up. It didn’t seem to disturb him to inter-rupt the current work in order to be completely at the visitor’s disposal. He never gave any sign of feeling inconvenienced, whether through a remark, a gesture, or some impatience. He was happy to listen to the account of a young person’s feelings, wishes, nostalgia, what he was and wanted to be. If one as much as mentioned a poet’s name, whether long dead or alive, or the title of a work, he wanted to know what impression it had made. But he never corrected an expressed opinion. The woman, the daughter—I still didn’t know for sure who they were,

how they were related to him. I thus could not address them directly which made me somewhat embarrassed. Like him, they were open and lov-ably friendly. One could not necessarily take for granted a spousal relationship. Their behavior was so reserved, so measured in length, width, and height, well tempered and balanced. The two sides of the scale were always even.

As before, the coffee machine came out. Since I could not figure out how it was heated, I asked if it used charcoal. No, no, laughed Rudolf Steiner, who always sat at the narrow send of the table by

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 spirit” (Nutrimentum Spiriti), which Berliners had translated, “Spirits are food, too.” He laughed happily “That’s Berliners for you!” Then he described the Viennese in a few words.

Briskly, the woman went and fetched a cloth doll that was standing 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 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 a bottle. This, she explained, is a present from Dr. Jacobowski—a bottle of French cognac and it means “The whole body is spirit.”

I had read Darwin; those were the days of naturalism. I had studied Marx and his interpreters Kautsky, Büchner, as well as Albert Lange’s History of Materialism. “The whole body is spirit.” This was something else; this was Dr. Rudolf Steiner.

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Selections taken from J. Mücke & A. A.Rudolph, Memoirs of Rudolf Steiner and his Activities at the Berlin Workers’ School 1899–1904. Translated by Mado Spiegler.

Ralph Courtney


He was to some extent universality

itself. It was enough for me that he should exist, which meant that I myself existed, and I felt only that I loved him.


Introduction*

by Christopher Bamford

A “BERLIN LODGE” OF the Theosophical Society had

existed in Germany since 1894. There had been several leaders. In 1900, when Steiner began to lecture, its leader was Dr. Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden (1846–1916), who lived in Hanover. Steiner’s connection, Count Brockdorff, lived in Berlin, was secretary, and led the Lodge there.

Hübbe-Schleiden, a force to reckon with, had a rather checkered history. After receiving a law degree from Leipzig University in 1869, he moved to Lon-don, where he worked first for a large business and then for the German Consul. From Lon-don, he traveled to Africa (1875), where he operated a lucrative business in Gabon until a scandal appeared to implicate him in the murder of two men who had robbed the com-pany. To avoid criminal charges, he returned to Germany, where he became active in the grow-ing colonialist movement. In 1884, however, he experienced a physical and spiritual crisis, which led to his conversion to Theosophy and a meeting with Madame Blavatsky. With her blessing, he established the Theosophical Society in Germany and began to publish The Sphinx (1886–1895), a Theosophical organ that soon provided a vehicle for the revival of occultism in Germany.

Steiner considered Hübbe-Schleiden to be the leading candidate to be the first general secretary of the German Section. Hübbe-Schleiden declined the offer, however, thus allowing Steiner to assume the post. Hübbe-Schleiden nevertheless continued to serve on the executive committee in 1902 and 1903. Since he had belonged to the Esoteric Section in London, he took part in Steiner’s esoteric classes, thus taking in some sense Rudolf Steiner as his teacher. In 1911, however, he openly took Annie Besant’s side in the Krish-namurti affair and became the German rep-resentative of the related organization, The

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.

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The German Section of the Theosophical Society was founded October 20, 1902, with Rudolf Steiner as general secre-tary and Marie von Sivers as sec-retary. During the proceedings, Steiner asked Annie Besant, who had traveled to Berlin to bestow the Charter, to enroll him as a member of the “esoteric school.” There lie the material origins of this volume.

The origin of the esoteric school date back at least to

1884, when certain members of the London lodge “petitioned the Masters for the forma-tion of an inner group” for deeper esoteric training. Following that initial call for experi-ence rather than theory, the number of The-osophists seeking to become chelas—practic-ing “disciples,” rather than simply “students” of the doctrines—increased until, in 1888, in response to the demand, the esoteric school was founded. The announcement, which appeared on the last page of the October issue of Lucifer (vol. 3) read:

Owing to the fact that a large number of fellows of the society have felt the need to form a body of esoteric students, to be organized on the original lines and devised by the real founders of the T. S., the following order has been issued by the founding president:

I. To promote the esoteric interests of the Theosophical Society by the deeper study of esoteric philosophy, there is hereby organized a body to be known as the “Esoteric Section of the Theosophi-cal Society.”

II. The constitution and sole direction of the same is vested in Madame H. P. Bla-vatsky, as its head; she is solely respon-sible to the members of results; and the section as no official or corporate connec-tion with the Exoteric Society, save in the person of the founding president.

In other words, the Esoteric Section derived directly and solely from Madame Blavatsky

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 Lon-don 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

Esoteric Lessons, 1904–1909

* This is an edited excerpt taken from the more comprehensive introduction in Esoteric Lessons.



toward what one holds as divine.2. In the evening, before retiring the member should

first meditate (inwardly repeat) for at least a quarter of an hour a sentence given by Rudolf Steiner and then conduct a “backward review” of the day.

3. At least half an hour daily should be devoted to study of a suggested book.

4. Every two weeks, the member should report what exercises have been practiced and, if they have not been practiced, state why not.

5. The member should keep a daily record in a notebook of exercises practiced.

6. Alcohol was prohibited.7. Abstention of animal food was not compulsory,

but a vegetarian diet was recommended.

Within the school, there were different grades or classes: the Probationary Order of Hearers; the First Class; and after that the Sec-ond Class, and so on. Members of all Classes would probably have attended the Esoteric Lessons contained here. Details of the “Sec-ond Class” are to be found in the volume enti-tled Freemasonry and Ritual Work: Misraim Service or the Cognitive Cultic Section (CW 266). To our knowledge, Rudolf Steiner never initiated any further classes. In the British School of the T.S., and to some extent the German School, there were—for Steiner refers to them—four ways, or disciplines, according to the school’s original founding: the so-called General Dis-cipline; the Christian-Gnostic, or Devotional Discipline; the Pythagorean, or Intellectual and Artistic Discipline; and the Karma, or Action Discipline.

Instruction was of three kinds. There were 1) rules and exercises practiced universally by all students; 2) individual exercises and prac-tices given by Rudolf Steiner personally; and 3) the esoteric lessons. The function of the lessons was to address intimate aspects of the path, while directing students to the Masters of Wisdom and of the Harmony of Sensa-tions and Feelings—the Mahatmas—who were the true leaders of the school. Here we must remember that, for Rudolf Steiner, the Masters were an experienced reality long before he entered his connection with the Theosophi-cal Society. While in Vienna (c. 1880), he met and became close friends with an “old herb gatherer,” Felix Koguzki, who acted as an

“agent” preparing him for actual contact with a Master or Mahatma, most probably Christian Rosenkreutz.

The Masters (or “Manus”) were the “lead-ers of humanity,” “superhuman individuals” of the “White Lodge, ” who brought wisdom to human beings from the pre-earthly realms in the preceding epochs of human evolution. In the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, however, such leaders would be drawn from the ranks of humanity itself. According to Steiner, of the twelve Masters, four were especially connected with the Theosophical Movement: Two from the East (Kuthumi and Morya) and two from the West (Christian Rosenkreutz/Saint-Ger-main and the Master Jesus/Zoroaster). Three more were also active: Hilarion (who inspired Mabel Collins’ The Light on the Path), Serapis, and the so-called Venetian Master. Thus, seven Masters, “seven rays of the Logos,” were cur-rently working on Earth. “Two are active in the East, two in the West, two in the center [Mediterranean region], and one moves about.” They work in a twofold manner:

When the present day leaders of human-ity go about in the world in their human guise, they are not recognized by what they are in the outer world. When from the theosophical standpoint, we speak of the “Masters of Wisdom and of the Har-mony of Sensations and Feelings” people would often be surprised to see in what simple unpretentious form these “Mas-ters” pass through all countries. They are present on the physical plane, but do not give their most important teachings there, but they impart them on the spiritual plane. Those who wish to hear them, to receive their teachings, must have access to them not only in their physical body, but also in their spiritual form.

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Rudolf Steiner assumed de facto leadership of the German Section by about the second half of June 1902, though the official inaugu-ration did not occur until October. On August 16, he wrote to Hübbe-Schleiden: I will build upon the power that makes it possible for me to bring spiritual students onto the path of devel-opment. That alone is what it must mean to assume this function.” With this in mind, in October, he spoke in his first lecture of “prac-tical karma exercises.”

It must never be forgotten, however, that, although Steiner’s dedication and sense of mission was absolute, the movement he sought

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 dif-ficult 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 teach-ing. 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 Ger-man Section: Berlin, Charlottenburg, Dus-seldorf, 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. Mem-bership at the time of the first general meeting (October, 1903) was only 130. By 1904, when the Esoteric Section officially began, member-ship had increased to 251, still a small num-ber. By 1909 (when this volume concludes), membership had reached 1500 (still not ter-ribly 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 les-sons recorded here. In spiritual work, however, numbers are not especially important.

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Rudolf Steiner

Lecture 2

BERLIN, FEBRUARY 15, 1904

IN WESTERN CULTURES spiritual development must begin primarily with the so-called con-

trol of thought. Although western thinking, which is entirely unordered and highly arbi-trary, is not at all suitable for developing con-trolled 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 experi-ence 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 illogi-cally everywhere. In daily life, in businesses, in the higher professions, in natural science, in history, you encounter illogical thinking every-where; 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-edge themselves, and not just hear it from other people who have it, must begin to live their lives from within. In order to do this they must entirely close themselves off from the rest of their lives, at least for very short periods of time during the day. Even if it is for only five to ten minutes or only three to four minutes, they must devote themselves to their own inner life and to such thoughts that do not originate in our immediate culture, not in our everyday life, but have rather a higher origin, thoughts, in which one can place one’s trust.

This withdrawal, this living and weaving in a world of thought that is strictly ordered, this devotion to such a world of thought, if only for a short period of time, that is what com-pensates for the distraction and fragmentation caused by external civilization. Then, strength-ened with an inner center, we can go through the everyday world; we can lead ourselves through the everyday world through our abil-ity to remove thoughts from our field of inner vision if they do not belong to our ordered life. Do not think that you will always be able to do this! Just remember that when you cross the street you are not lord of your own thoughts; that from all sides, without your being able to do anything about it, thoughts from the surrounding world are attacking you, affecting your consciousness, using it to play so that you are a plaything of your conscious-ness. As long as you lack the power to reel in your thoughts as if on a string, you cannot expect that the inner world will open itself to you. We can only expect to become lord of our own thought world when we manage to free ourselves from everyday life for a brief period of time and lift ourselves to ideals.

When one acquires love for an ideal then one achieves inner strengthening. It does not depend upon grasping a thought with one’s understanding.

Consider the first thought in Light on the Path: “Before the eyes can see they must be incapable of tears.” Consider it today, tomorrow, and repeatedly—then it begins to be alive. And if you deflect everything else that tries to inter-ject itself and mix up this thought, then it will become the center point of your being. It lives and weaves within you. It will show you that it causes other thoughts to come forth from it, that it is endlessly fruitful. And you will see what you have to overcome inwardly. A

sensitivity to wrong thoughts must take root within you. It must reach the point that you feel you are being stuck by needles of wrong thoughts. You must also feel this when you are reading books. If you cannot feel pain caused by illogical thinking, then neither can you develop proper thinking.

However, you must not only understand proper thinking, you must also love it. You must love a thought as one loves a child. You have seen your child today, yesterday, and the day before yesterday and you still love it. You must do the same with your thought world. When you think that you have understood a thought you must not push it out of your thoughts, but rather turn to it repeatedly. When you can do that then you are equipped with a kind of “thought armor,” and then the transition stage ceases, the stage when you had to fight off thoughts that were illogical. It ceases when thoughts are facts to you just as much as a chair, a table, and so forth. You become positive. Those who live in the spiri-tual world know that. They also know that they are always surrounded by thoughts that are powers and forces working upon us. Those who are receptive for it can see how thoughts of hatred, how thoughts of good will are sent back and forth between people. They see how thoughts are drawn into people and how they bounce back. There are people who stand before us in a strange way; they stand there as if surrounded by a crystal body, in the mid-dle of which they live. And all inappropriate, unsuitable thoughts bounce off this crystal sheath. Those are people who understand how to lead a meditative life, who understand how to regulate their lives from within.

You can test whether your thought control has been successful. But not by simply saying to yourself, “Now I am thinking correctly,” but rather by using a barometer that can show you how your thinking is controlled from within. And for those who follow the path of knowl-edge, that is one’s dream life. For those who truly understand these things, one’s dream life is valued highly, though not in the same way as by others who are superstitious. For those who understand, it has an entirely different significance than for people who have not yet managed to control their thought life.

For most people dream life is a wild, mixed-up confusion. But that ceases completely after we have devoted ourselves to a meditative life for a while. Then our dreams acquire a deep,




symbolic significance. A barometer for our degree of thought control can be found in the regularity, in the beauty of our dreams. As long as we stagger through external life our dreams will be a confused reflection of that external life. However, in the moment when we begin to set aside at least brief periods in order to become strong and powerful in our resistance against all that assaults us, our dreams take on a symbolic significance. Then, in a controlled way, we must make the effort to ask: What is it presenting to me, this dream that appears in this way?

That is also the difference between a higher dream and a lower. It is not the case that a dream equals a dream. The life that a human being unfolds in the sleep condition is totally different for those who are developing their spiritual body than for those who are not. One who has spiritual experience knows this. Those who know nothing other than what their eyes, ears and tongue tell them, who are completely absorbed in the sense world, during sleep they can experience nothing more that a confused reminiscence of their sense impressions. How-ever, what you achieve in five minutes through your spiritual work is something that stimu-lates the spirit and sets it in motion, something that you take with you everywhere whether or not your body is with you. Then when our dreams begin to become regular and become little dramas with a development and regular actions, then what we call our true inner spiri-tual life is active.

However, this is only the lowest step. What must then be added is this: when you are mak-ing room for moments separated from the rest of your life (but you are not allowed to take these moments from your work life, from your professional life, for theosophists are not per-mitted to take anything away from their work life) and then use them for inner advancement, then you will notice something that occurs very soon for those who spend some time in meditation, in the inner spiritual life. You will notice that you remember your dreams in an entirely different way than was otherwise the case. This is the continuity of consciousness that continually increases the more a person develops the self, and this increases in such a way that one becomes objective inwardly. As long as you identify entirely with your body—just as long it is not the spirit with which you have united—you will not be able to develop consciousness while out of your body when

sleeping. Hence the unconscious condition of the greatest portion of humanity during sleep. Such a continuity of consciousness appears only very slowly, so that you are actually awake in sleep as you are awake in your physical body, and then you carry this wakeful consciousness over into your everyday wakeful consciousness.

There you have a way to achieve a kind of barometer for measuring in physical life. The ability to resist the assaults of ordinary life is raised. The body must become a kind of

instrument. Then you can observe the body outside of yourself, lying next to you. But you are living in the spirit when you begin to with-draw from what is connected to your body. In this way, you do not become less capable for life but rather more capable, for those who know the spirit are always more capable in life. It all depends on your setting aside part of your day in order to devote yourself to higher thoughts that have nothing to do with every-day self-seeking, ambition, ordinary sensual comforts—and that you let the light of such thoughts shine into everyday life.

Thus we have understood the very first teaching in Light on the Path. It does not want to lead people to asceticism; it does not want to estrange people from this world. Those who come to asceticism do not correspond to the theosophical ideal but rather those who come to the spirit out of their ordinary life. When we read in Light on the Path:

1. Kill off ambition.2. Kill off love of life.3. Kill off the wish for comfort.

And then right after

4. Work as those work who are ambitious. Value life as those who love it. Be happy as those who live only for happiness.

And further:

Seek in your heart the root of evil and tear it out.

The theosophist must feel that we are a part of the whole—that we share responsibility for all that exists. Those who are not in a posi-tion to understand that they, too, are guilty if someone steals tomorrow, who are not in a position to know how they are connected to the whole, those people are not in a position to seek the root of evil. Because we lack the possibility and the ability to start with other people it reads: Seek in the heart—in your heart—the root of evil and tear it out. For it lives and thrives in the heart of the ambitious disciple just as in the hearts of the children of the world.

No one is allowed to imagine that he or she is good—as if we could even do that, as if we could do that for even a moment—or that he or she is much better than other people. We must be completely filled with the thought that we cannot be much better than another. What have we done, for example, if we make people happy while at the same time, because we live the way we live, we are making many unhappy? Ignorance is the root of suffering in life. We are ignorant, as is so often the case, that we have sharpened the knife for those who use it for evil. Only the strong are able to kill it. The weak, however, must wait their growth, their maturation, their death. This weed grows in human beings through world epochs. It thrives; however, it only blossoms when they have passed through countless lives.

Sometimes it does not appear until very late incarnations: that one who already ascended into the heights has fallen deeply later. It is not unusual that those with the deepest knowledge join those who have fallen the lowest. Those adventurous souls were indistinguishable from the great ones.

Those who want to tread the path of mas-tery must tear this weed out of their hearts. And then the heart will bleed heavily; one’s entire life will appear to have been destroyed.

Receive this word almost literally, but in a spiritual sense. Consider what the highest meaning and grandest value of life is. Say to yourself, “There is no end to the value of what I have seen, and how endless are the things for

For us to see things of a soul and spiritual

nature, a light “more radiant than the Sun” must shine upon us. This light does not proceed from any external sun but from the source of light that we kindle in ourselves when we seek within for our higher, eternal self.

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which I have lived, yet they are perhaps entirely without value. I must begin a new life if I no longer wish to live in the manner to which I am accustomed, if I do not want it formed and created by an influence foreign to me but want to shape and create it through my own inner life. We then do not become another to external appearances, but we are leading our lives following a different impulse. We will be guiding our lives not out of vanity, not out of ambition, not out of sensual comfort, for we will no longer be able to do that, but rather out of a sense of duty, because it must happen out of a higher insight.

The ordeal must be endured. It may come to you on the first step of the perilous ascent which leads to the path of life, perhaps at the last. But consider well that it must be endured, and fasten all your energies upon the task. You are not allowed to live in the present moment nor in the future but only in the eternal.

The seer can perceive how thoughts, like spears from the external world, pierce those who live in the present moment. Thoughts that could be detrimental bounce off those who live in the eternal. It is not external suc-cess, not what we can achieve that brings us further but rather that we live in the eternal in every moment. We will achieve nothing if we strive with greed. We should not live in the future but only in the eternal.

This giant weed cannot flower there; this blot upon your existence is wiped out by the very breath of eternal thought. Then we come to the formation of the astral body. Just as we worked on the mental body through thought control, so, too, we must work on our astral body by ordering our memory. It must also be controlled, must become an object for testing. That exerts an enormous, significant influence on one’s entire life. You must discontinue the habit of having egotistical thoughts of regret when you look back on your actions. What you remember must simply be there for you to learn how to do things better. We must learn from the past and use our memory to make our souls more capable. When we so regulate our memories that we do not look back in an arbitrary way but rather look back even at what appears to be the least significant things so that they become a school for learning, then we strengthen the backbone of our soul. When we strengthen our memory in this way, then astral vision is formed. This transforms our astral body into an organ of the will that

we can then use. We must disaccustom our-selves to tears; we must overcome sympathy and antipathy so that we can bring the proper attitude to images in our memories.

When we have become lord over our mem-ory — over our ability to think and form men-tal pictures — we have reached our preliminary goal. We recognize that those who do not practice this must constantly feel that they are dependent upon every spiritual “draft” around them, like a swaying reed that is thrown this way and that by every passing thought. There is no other means of getting into the astral and mental world than to create and form oneself from within. Those who organize their memories, who in the evenings form the cloud-like shape into regular radiant forms, namely the higher parts, which proceed from the head and heart, those people will show that they live from within into the outer world. When human beings have come this far, then nothing bad can reach them anymore. In their presence we could send them thoughts of the worst sort and those thoughts would come right back as if they had not even touched them. In their meditative work they have built a spiritual cov-ering that surrounds them.

Esoteric Lesson 1BERLIN, OCTOBER 4, 1904

AUM“Seek the Path.”

“Seek the path by going deep within your self.”

“Seek the path by boldly going out of your self.”

These two sentences only appear to con-tradict one another. In truth they express two extraordinarily correct facts.

Turning inward is namely the first half of a path. To begin with, at the present stage of development, human beings are living in the sense perceptions of the external world. Even when they use their intellect and understanding to process these sense impressions, they remain

“outside.”If they free themselves from the sense

impressions and withdraw into themselves, they still have the power to think. This think-ing is then emptied of external contents. That signifies “going deep within your soul.” But precisely because their thinking is “emptied,” new content can flow to them from within.

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.

Esoteric Lesson 2BERLIN, OCTOBER 24, 1905

THE VERSE:

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 con-tain 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 indica-tions are given in what follows.

More radiant than the Sun

We see the objects that surround us only when they are shone upon by the Sun. What makes them visible are the Sun’s rays reflected back from the objects into the eye of the beholder. If there were no light the objects would not be visible. But through this exter-nal light only the objects in the physical world become visible. For us to see things of a soul and spiritual nature, a light “more radiant than the Sun” must shine upon us. This light does not proceed from any external sun but from




the source of light that we kindle in ourselves when we seek within for our higher, eternal self. This higher self has a different origin than our lower self. The latter experiences our everyday surroundings. However, everything that lives in this everyday environment has at some time come into being and will one day pass away. Thus our experience of it has only a transitory value. And from such transitory experiences and our thoughts about them our transitory self is built up. All things that become visible because of the Sun were, at one time, not in existence, and some day they will pass away. Even the Sun came into existence at a certain time and will one day pass away. But the soul exists for the very purpose of recognizing the eternal in things. When one day the entire Earth will be no more, the souls who inhab-ited it will still exist. And what these souls have experienced on Earth they will carry with them elsewhere as a memory.

It is the same as when a person does a good deed for me. The deed passes away, but what he or she has planted in my soul remains. And the bond of love that has thus united us does not pass away. What we experience is always the source of something that endures within us. We extract from things whatever endures and carry it into eternity. And when one day human beings are transplanted to a quite dif-ferent arena of action, they will bring with them what they have gathered here. And their deeds in the new world will be woven out of the memories of the old. There is no seed that does not bear fruit. If we are united with someone by love, then this love is a seed and we will experience the fruit all through the future because we belong together with such a person throughout the future. Thus, something lives in us that interweaves with the divine power that binds all things together into the eternal fabric of the universe. This “something” is our higher self. And this is more radiant than the Sun. The light of the Sun illuminates a per-son from the outside only. The sun of the soul illuminates a person from within. Therefore, it is more radiant than the Sun.

Purer than snow

In itself everything is pure. It can become impure only when it unites with something that should not be united with it. In and of itself water is pure. But even the dirt in dirty water would be pure if it were in and of itself, if it had not united with the water in

an unlawful way. Carbon by itself is pure. It becomes dirt only if it is wrongfully united with water. Now, when water assumes its own form in a snow crystal, it separates out all that has united wrongly with it. So too does the human soul become pure if it separates out all that is improperly united with it. And the divine, the imperishable belongs to the soul. Every ideal, every thought of something great and beautiful belongs to the inner form of the soul. And when it meditates upon such ide-als, such thoughts, then it purifies itself as the water purifies itself in becoming snow crystal. And because the spiritual is purer than any-thing material the “higher self,” that is, the soul that lives in the heights, is “purer than snow.”

Finer than the ether

Ether is the finest form of matter. But all matter is still dense compared to the element of soul. It is not the “dense” that is lasting

but the “fine.” The stone that we think of as matter, will pass away as matter. But the thought of the stone, which lives in the soul, remains. God has thought this thought. And out of it he made the dense stone. Just as ice is merely solidified water, similarly a stone is simply a thought of God made dense.

All objects are these denser thoughts of God. The “higher self,” however, dissolves all things, and the thoughts of God then live in it. And when the self is woven out of such thoughts of God, then it is “finer than the ether.”

The spirit in my heart We have only really understood something when we have grasped with our heart. Intellect and reason are merely mediators for the heart’s understanding. Through intellect and reason we penetrate to divine thoughts. But once we have really taken hold of the thought, then we must learn to love it. Gradually we learn to love all things. This does not mean that we should give our

heart without discrimination to everything we encounter. Our experience is initially deceptive. However, when we make an effort to under-stand a being or a thing down to its origin in the divine, then we also begin to love it. If I have a depraved human being standing in front of me, then in no way should I love his or her depravity. Through such an act I would only be in error and would not help the person at all. However, if I reflect on how this person has come to his or her depravity and if I help him or her to leave it behind, then I am help-ing the person and I myself struggle through to the truth. I must seek everywhere to find how I can love. God is present in all things, but this divinity in any particular thing I must first seek. It is not the external aspect of a being or thing that I should love straightaway, for this can be deceptive and I could easily love the error. But truth lies behind all illusion and we can always love truth. And if the heart seeks the love of truth in all beings, then there lives the “spirit in the heart.” Such love is the garment the soul should always wear. Then the soul itself weaves the divine into things.

• • • The members of the school should take sev-

eral minutes a day to connect such thoughts to the divine maxims of wisdom, which have been given to us by the masters out of their bound-less world-experience. They should never think that they have completely understood a maxim, but always assume that still more lies in it than they have already found. Through an attitude such as this we come to feel that in all genuine wisdom lies the key to the infinite, and in this feeling we bind ourselves to the infinite.

• • •It is not a matter of meditating on many

sentences, but rather of letting a little live repeatedly in a soul that has become still. Dur-ing the meditation itself one should speculate very little, but rather quietly allow the content of the sentences to work upon one. But apart from the meditation, during free moments in the course of the day one should return to the content of the sentences and see what reflec-tions one can draw from them. Then they become a living power that sinks into the soul and makes it strong and vigorous. For when the soul unites with eternal truth, it lives in the eternal. And when the soul lives in the eternal, then higher beings have access to it and can let their own power sink into it.


All objects are these denser thoughts of God.

The “higher self,” however, dissolves all things, and the thoughts of God then live in it. And when the self is woven out of such thoughts of God, then it is “finer than the ether.”


THE POPULARITY OF biodynamic gardening and farming methods has been growing steadily around the world ever since Rudolf Steiner

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 philo-sophical ideas and abstract concepts unless those ideas actually function in the field to produce better results. Those who have taken the neces-sary 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 combin-ing these with mechanical watering and irrigation technologies.

During most of the 1980s, six thousand acres of grape growing areas in the San Joachim Valley in California looked like a “desert with grape vines stuck into dried mud.” Herbicides killed all other plant life. Gallo Wine, a multi-billion dollar company, was on a

“chemical treadmill”; insects developed resistance to chemical insec-ticides in less than four years.*

Such problems don’t belong only to the farmers; they affect our envi-ronment and trickle down through the production process and into the quality of the final products we consume each day. Agribusiness representatives and lobbyists generally claim that their methods are safe, efficient, and save the consumer money, but we and our children are likely to pay later through poor health and a ruined enviornment. How many of us now buy bottled water? Fifty years ago, such a concept was 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, per-haps 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 rea-sons 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 devel-oping the skills needed to make unique, quality wines. The whole process goes far beyond simply

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 composi-tion and terrain, which in turn calls for a specific variety of grapevine.

By the mid-twentieth century, however, a huge trend had developed in the industry. Large producers had moved toward making affordable and more consistent wines that do not depend on season, place, or grower. They wanted to guarantee “success” by introducing artificial ingredi-ents into the growing and winemaking processes. Naturally, there has been a serious downside to all of this. As Monty Waldin points out, from personal experience, in his excellent book, Biodynamic Wines, “No one had considered the effect of vineyard modernization on wine qual-ity. The impact of the new chemical treatments on the vines gradually but perceptibly threw the vines out of balance. We were forever playing catch up against pests, diseases, and mineral deficiencies in the vines.” He also mentions the cash that tends to flow away from production and

profit and toward the chemical industry.

The Benziger Family Winery

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 eighty-five acres in twenty-nine “distinct blocks of eno-logical charisma.” Benziger Family Winery pursues biodynamic methods more aggressively than per-haps any other winery in North America.

Benziger Family Winery: A Biodynamic Success Storyby William (Jens) Jensen

Winemaker Mike Benziger



More than twenty years ago, Mike and Mary Benziger drove up Sonoma Mountain and saw an overgrown ranch that would eventu-ally 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 sig-nificantly 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 commit-ment to biodynamic methods. I began by asking him how one would go about estab-lishing biodynamics on a vineyard, espe-cially 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 observa-tion 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 happen-ing.

They also had to diversify, creating what Mike referred to as “Old-World 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 ecosys-tem. “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.

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 begin-ning. This is the way we always

B e n z i g e r F a m i l y W i n e r y : A B i o d y n a m i c S u c c e s s S t o r y

Making a biodynamic preparation


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 carry-ing 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 impos-sible 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 pas-sion 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 invest-ment 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 busi-ness is tremendous. In our valley alone, there used to be thirty fam-ily businesses. Now I don’t think there’s another winery in Califor-nia 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. Biodynam-ics 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 defi-nition 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 fin-gerprint of the vintage. Today, the commodity is the varietal char-acter; 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 biodynam-ics 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




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 intu-ition 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.

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 super-vise 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

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.

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 environ-ment. And the field itself acts as a “collector” in a broader sense, gath-ering 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 addi-tion 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, fermen-tation, 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 biodynam-ics, 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.


The cave winds around, past numerous barrels to a beautiful banquet room

Mike Benziger at the cave doors



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 relation-ship with the vines and with the environment.

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 organiza-tion 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 manag-ing those states of energy.

What we’re always trying to do—and this is the meaning of trans-formation—is organize energies into a higher state. And the mean-ing of biodynamics is your ability to order the diversity on your property into a transcendent state. We are probably the luckiest

people you’ve met. We get to live here, and we get to manage trans-formation. 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 liq-uids on Earth—it definitely has one of the best memories ever. It remembers everything that you do to it, even positive and negative thoughts.

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 dif-ferent ways, Mike’s contagious enthusiasm certainly has a real and posi-tive effect on the final product in the bottle. In the end it became obvi-ous 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 Ben-ziger and Barney Barnett. The grounds are surrounded by the beauti-ful green of Sonoma Mountain, Jack London State Park, and terraced

vineyards. The land includes an impressive compost pile; a small out-building 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.

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* “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:

Benziger Family Wine: www.benziger.com.Imagery Estate Winery: www.imagerywinery.com.

Upper pond for recycling water

Lower pond with duck weed for second stage of reclaiming water



Index of Books & Authors

70 Years A-Growing 83Abouleish, Ibrahim 23According to Luke 49According to Matthew 49Agriculture 83Agriculture Course 84Alchemy 31Allen, Joan deRis 53Allen, Paul M. 53Allison, John 74Almon, Clopper 27Almon, Joan 34America’s Global Responsibility 68Ancient Myths 40Angels 47Anschutz, Marieke 67Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine 61Anthroposophical Understanding

of the Soul 66Anthroposophy & the Inner Life 38Anthroposophy in Everyday Life 25Apocalypse of Saint John 51Approaches to Anthroposophy 25Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha 4Archangel Michael 25Archetypal Feminine in the

Mystery Stream of Humanity 58Archiati, Pietro 29, 47, 55, 72Architecture 76Architecture As a Synthesis of the Arts 76Art 76Aspects of Human Evolution 40Atlantis 31At Home in the Universe 25At the Dawn of a New Age 33Aurora 82Autobiography 5Awakening to Community 29Background to the Gospel of St. Mark 49Bamford, Christopher 56Banerjee, Maria Nemcová 12Barfield, Owen 41Barnes, Christy Mackaye 73, 74Barnes, Henry 33Barnes, John 79Battle for the Soul 26Bauer, Dietrich 47Baum, John 45Bayes, Kenneth 77Becoming Aware of the Logos 55Beginnings of Christianity 53Ben-Aharon, Jesaiah 41, 68Benesch, Friedrich 82Benson, J. Leonard 74Bento, William 66Beuys, Joseph 75

Beyond the Forest 67Beyond the Medical Meltdown 21Bible’s Hidden Cosmology 53Bingham, Hiram A. 72Biodynamic Agriculture 84Biodynamic Farm 10Biodynamic Food & Cookbook 21Biodynamic Sowing and

Planting Calendar 2007 84Bittleston, Adam 73Blackboard Drawings 74Black Earth 72Blattmann, Georg 81Blaxland-de Lange, Simon 20, 37Blessed by Illness 62Bock, Emil 51Bock, Friedwart 71Bockemühl, Jochen 82Bortoft, Henri 83Bott, Victor 60Bridge over the River 43Brody, Judit 80Broken Vessels 60Builders of Camphill 71Bulgakov, Sergei 55, 58Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward 72Burning Bush 50Buttner, Gottfried 74Calendar 1912–1913 59Calendar of the Soul 18Case of Valentin Tomberg 71Challenge of the Times 68Chance, Providence & Necessity 28Chartres 77Childhood and Human Evolution 79Children and Their Temperaments 67Children Who Communicate

before They Are Born 47Childs, Gilbert 47, 56, 67Childs, Sylvia 47Child Is Born, A 61Christianity as Mystical Fact 5Christian Book of the Dead 52Christian Hermetic Astrology 84Christian Rosenkreutz 31Christmas Conference 30Christmas Foundation 30Christ and Sophia 7Christ and the Son of Man 56Chronicle of the Living Christ 53Colour 76Colquhoun, Margaret 80Complete Healing 61Conford, Philip 70Confronting Conflict 68Cook, Wendy E. 21, 63

Cookery Book for Patients with Cancer or Precancerous Conditions 64

Coping with Evil 10Correspondence & Documents 33Cosmic Christ 55Cosmic Christianity 84Cosmic Memory 14Crisis Points 65Crossing the Threshold 43Cycle of the Seasons 59Cycle of the Year As a Path of Initiation 59d’Herbois, Liane Collot 76Daisley, Jenny 65David’s Question 50Davidson, Norman 82Davy, John 80, 81Dawnwatchers 72Dead Are with Us 18Deeper Secrets in Human History 54Deighton, Hilda 13Destinies of Individuals and of Nations 41Developing Biodynamic Agriculture 84Developmental Dynamics 79Deverell, Doré 43Diet and Cancer 61Disciple Whom Jesus Loved 50Does It Matter? 79Dostoevsky 12Douch, Geoffrey 63Drake, Stanley 44Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson 75Druids 31Earth-Friendly 79Earthly Knowledge & Heavenly Wisdom 28Easter Festival 59Easton, Stewart 34East in the Light of the West 28Eclipses 2005–2017 78Eco-Geography 78Edelglass, Stephen 81Edmunds, L. Francis 14Edwards, Lawrence 81Egyptian Myths and Mysteries 40Ellison, Arthur 82Emerson and Science 80Encounters with Angels 48Endless Trace 45Enigma of Sunspots 80Enlivening the Chakra of the Heart 38Enterprise of the Future 68Esoteric Aspect of the Social Question 68Esoteric Christianity 52, 55Esoteric Development 38Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909 3Esoteric Studies (Marie Steiner) 28Esoteric Studies (Vreede) 29

Eternal Individuality 71Evans, Michael 61Evelyn Francis Capel 71Evil 28Evolution of the World & of Humanity 40Ewald, Axel 80Expanding Tonal Awareness 77Extending Practical Medicine 61

“Freemasonry” and Ritual Work 4Falck-Ytter, Harald 82Fall of Sophia 58Farrer, Frances 71Festivals and Their Meaning 59Fifth Gospel 52Finding the Greater Self 73Fingal’s Cave 53Floride, Athys 69Flowforms 80Foodwise 63Forward, William 37Foundations of Curative Eurythmy 77Foundation Stone 30Foundation Stone/The Life, Nature &

Cultivation of Anthroposophy 30Foundation Stone Meditation (Steiner) 18Founding a Science of the Spirit 31Fourth Dimension 78Four Seasons & the Archangels 59Freedom As Spiritual Activity 28Frieling, Rudolf 54, 57Friends and Lovers 65From Beetroot to Buddhism 32From Christianity to Christ 55From Comets to Cocaine 32From Crystals to Crocodiles 32From Elephants to Einstein 32From Jesus to Christ 52From Limestone to Lucifer 32From Mammoths to Mediums 32From Stress to Serenity 65From Sunspots to Strawberries 32From the History and Contents of the First

Section of the Esoteric School 3Future is Now 36Garber, Bernard 73Gardening for Life 84Gebert, Hans 81Genesis (Steiner) 49Give Us This Day 54Giving Judas a Chance 72Glasl, Friedrich 68Glöckler, Michaela 62Gnosis, the Mysteries & Christianity 55Goddess 31Goebel, Wolfgang 62Goerg, Hartmut 47


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Goethe 6, 80Goethe and the Power of Rhythm 79Goethe on Science 80Gold & the Philosopher’s Stone 61Goodwin, Rufus 54Gospel of St. John (Steiner) 49Gospel of St. John and Its Relation

to the Other Gospels 57Gospel of St. Mark 49Great Initiates 41Great Religions 29Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily 6Grosse, Rudolf 30Grünewald, Peter 61Guardian Angels 48Guidance in Esoteric Training 38Guide to Child Health 62Gulbekian, Sevak 36Hageneder, Fred 79Hall, Alan 64Hall, Kelvin 67Harlan, Volker 75, 76Harmony of the Creative Word 31Harmony of the Human Body 62Harris, Lynda 75Hauschka, Rudolf 33, 63, 64Healing Process 60Heart of Peace 73Heavenly Sophia and the Being

Anthroposophia 17Heaven on Earth 13Held, Wolfgang 78Hemleben, Johannes 33Heritage of Trees 79Hiebel, Friedrich 34History in English Words 41Hoffmeister, Max 47Hofstetter, Sr. Adrian 79Holy Grail 31Holy Grail & the Eucharist 55Homemaking As a Social Art 68Home Nursing for Carers 60Home Remedies 63Hope, Evolution, and Change 80Hope of the World 54How Can Mankind Find the

Christ Again? 55How Do I Find the Christ? 18How the New Art of Eurythmy Began 77How to Know Higher Worlds 24How Wide the Heart 8Human and Cosmic Thought 29Human Encounters and Karma 69Husemann, Armin 62Husemann, Friedrich 61Hymns to the Night/Spiritual Songs 73

Illustrated Calendar of the Soul 59Imagination’s Music 73Incarnation of Ahriman 14Incredible Births of Jesus 50Inner Nature of Color 74Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine 60Introduction to Anthroposophical

Medicine 60Introduction to Anthroposophy 14Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path 24In Search of Home 65Iscador 62Isis Mary Sophia 57Jacobi, Michael 83Jenkinson, Angus 65Jesus, the Master Builder 54Jocelyn, John 16Johanson, Irene 48Jones, Michael 74Jones, Noragh 65Joseph of Arimathea 54Judaism & Anthroposophy 29Karma of Materialism 40Karma of Untruthfulness 19Karmic Relationships 46Kaspar Hauser 71Kelber, Wilhelm 56Keyserlingk, Adalbert Count 84Kings and Prophets 51Kipp, Friedrich 79Kirchner-Bockholt, Margarete 77Klett, Manfred 83Klocek, Dennis 39Knowledge of the Higher Worlds 24Koepf, Herbert 10Koster, Margje 64Kranich, Ernst-Michael 81Kühlewind, Georg 38, 55, 66Ladwein, Michael 22Lady & the Unicorn 74Lazarus, Come Forth! 7Lectures on Divine Humanity 58Legend 72Leonardo da Vinci 22Lievegoed, Bernard 26, 65, 66, 69Life between Death and Rebirth 44Life beyond Death 44Life for the Spirit 33Lifting the Veil of Mental Illness 66Light, Darkness, and Colour

in Painting Therapy 76Light beyond the Darkness 43Light for the New Millennium 41Lindholm, Dan 48Lipson, Michael 39Living Architecture 77

Living with the Dead 73Love & the World 66Love and Its Meaning in the World 26Lowndes, Florin 38Lukas Clinic 64MacDermot, Violet 58Macrocosm and Microcosm 37Madill, Betty 44Madsen, Jon 56Maher, Barry 72Maier, Georg 81Male and Female 69Manifestations of Karma 47Man on the Threshold 66Marcus, Christopher 72Marie Steiner 71Marriage of Sense & Thought 81Martin, Graham Dunstan 79Martyn, Philip 43Materialism and the Task

of Anthroposophy 26Matthews, Paul 76May Human Beings Hear It! 30McCausland, Bruce H. 10McLaughlin, Gerald T. 72Mead, G. R. S. 57Meaning of Life 26Meaning of Love 66Measure of Endurance 11Medicine 62Medicine, Mythology & Spirituality 63Medicine for the Whole Person 63Meditations on the Signs of the Zodiac 16Meditative Prayers for Today 73Mees, L. F. C. 62Meeting Rudolf Steiner 34Merry, Eleanor 75Meyer, T. H. 37, 41Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man 26Millar, Gabriel Bradford 44Mishler, William 11More Messages from the Angels 48Most Holy Trinosophia 58Murphy, Christine 62, 63Mysteries (Steiner) 35Mysteries of the East and of Christianity 42Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres 35Mystery of Arthur at Tintagel 56Mystery of John the Baptist . . . 52Mystery of Physical Life 81Mystery of the Two Jesus Children 52Mystery of the Universe 41Mystery Streams in Europe 69Mystics after Modernism 35Myth of the Nativity 23Nature’s Open Secret 81

Nature of Substance 64Nature Spirits & What They Say 48Nature Spirits 48Necessary Evil 53Necessity and Freedom 42Nesfield-Cookson, Bernard 27, 52New Eyes for Plants 80New Mysteries 16New Spirituality 56New Testament 56New Testament Studies 57Nicaea 72Ninetta Sombart 76Ninth Century & the Holy Grail 54Novalis 73Nutrition 63Obuchowski, Peter 80Occult History 42Occult Movement in the 19th Century 42Occult Physiology 64Occult Science 25One Language 8One Step at a Time 44Opening Our Moral Eye 75Oppenheimer, Sharifa 13Origins of Natural Science 80Origin and Development of Language 42Our Twelve Senses 67Outline of Esoteric Science 25Owen Barfield (biography) 20Paddock, Fred 29Palermo, Gina 13Parchment, a novel 72Paths of the Christian Mysteries 57Pelikan, Wilhelm 16Personal World 70Phases 65Philosophy, Cosmology & Religion 35Philosophy As an Approach to the Spirit 34Philosophy of Freedom 24Pietzner, Carlo 37Pistis Sophia 57Pogacnik, Ana 8Pogacnik, Marko 8Polarities in the Evolution

of Mankind 42Powell, Robert 53, 58, 84Prayers and Graces 74Prayers for Parents & Children 73Principles of Biodynamic Spray

and Compost Preparations 83Principles of Spiritual Science 35Principle of Spiritual Economy 42Projective Geometry 81Prokofieff, Sergei O. 17,

28, 30, 33, 34, 42, 52, 56, 59, 71


Psychology of Body, Soul & Spirit 67Pusch, Hans 78Querido, René 47Rainbow Over the River 44Raising the Soul 20Ramsbotham, Richard 75Realities of Prayer 56Reality, Truth & Evil 37Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric 56Redemption of Thinking 36Reilly, R. J. 12Reincarnation and Immortality 46Reincarnation and Karma 46Reincarnation in Modern Life 47Religion 57Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner 34Renewal of the Social Organism 69Results from the Biodynamic Sowing

and Planting Calendar 84Rhythm of the Christian Year 51Richards, M. C. 75Rodger, Iain 61Romantic Religion 12Rosicrucianism & Modern Initiation 30Rosicrucian Unity of Science,

Religion, and Art 5Rosicrucian Wisdom 36Rowe, Martin 72Rudolf Steiner (biography) 33Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction... 33Rudolf Steiner: Herald of a New Epoch 34Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy 33Rudolf Steiner’s Research into Karma

and the Mission of the Anthroposophical Society 34

Rudolf Steiner’s Vision of Love 27Rudolf Steiner & the Founding of

the New Mysteries 33Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the British 26Ruland, Heiner 77Saint Paul 51Sardello, Robert 66Schaefer, Christopher 70Schilling, Karin V. 45Schilthuis, Willy 84Schmidt-Brabant, Manfred 16, 57, 58Schroeder, Hans-Werner 53, 55Schulz, Andreas 83Schuré, Edouard 41Schwenk, Theodor 6, 82Schwenk, Wolfram 6, 83Science 81Science & the Paranormal 82Science and Art of Healing 64Sease, Virginia 16, 57, 58Secrets of Metals 16

Secret Brotherhoods 36Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch 75Seddon, Richard 34, 56Seeing Christ in Sickness and Healing 53Seer’s Handbook 39Sekem 23Self Transformation 27Selg, Peter 53Sensitive Chaos 82Shards from the Heart 73Siegloch, Magdalene 77Singing and the Etheric Tone 13Sing Me the Creation 76Sir George Trevelyan 71Sky Phenomena 82Sleigh, Julian 65Slice of Life 62Social and Political Science 69Social Issues 70Soesman, Albert 67Solovyov, Vladimir 58, 66Sophia 58Soul’s Awakening 78Soul’s Long Journey 50Souls’ Awakening 78Soulways 65Sources of Inspiration of Anthroposophy 27Speaking, Listening, Understanding 69Speech of the Grail 67Spiegler, Mado 29Spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky,

and Theosophy 36Spiritual Event of the 20th Century 41Spiritual Foundation of Morality 27Spiritual Origins of Eastern Europe 42Spirit Healing 64Springboard 65Stairway of Surprise 39Start Now! 39Star Children 66Staying Connected 45Stein, Walter Johannes 54Steiner, Marie 28Steiner, 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

Stolp, Hans 52Strachan, Gordon 53, 54, 77Study Companion to An Outline

of Esoteric Science 27Sturgeon-Day, Lee 62Suchantke, Andreas 78Sucher, Willi 84

Sun 81Sun Mystery & the Mystery

of Death and Resurrection 3Sussman, Linda 67Swassjan, Karen 37Temple Legend 36Theosophy 24Thinking beyond Darwin 81Though You Die 44Threefold Mary 51Threefold Nature of Destiny 36Three Years 51Thresholds 44Time of Decision with Rudolf Steiner 34Tomberg, Valentin 7Tourmaline 82Towards Social Renewal 70Toward a Phenomenology of the

Etheric World 82Toward Imagination 37Transformation of Evil 17Transforming Earth – Transforming Self 37Transforming People and Organizations 70Transforming the Soul, 1 & 2 19Transparent Realities 37Treichler, Rudolf 65Trumpet to the Morn 37Twelve Holy Nights 56Twentyman, Ralph 63, 64Ultimate Communion of Mankind 37Uncovering the Voice 77Understanding the Human Being 27Understanding Water 83Understand Your Temperament! 67Unger, Carl 35Up-Rising in Dying 74Urieli, Baruch Luke 69Vaccination Dilemma 63Valentin Tomberg and Anthroposophy 71van Bentheim, Tineke 60van den Brink, Margarete 52, 70van Duin, Veronika 44, 68van Emmichoven,

Willem Zeylmans 30, 66van Houten, Coenraad 36van Manen, Hans Peter 37, 71Verhulst, Jos 79Verses & Meditations 74Vision for the Millennium 70Vision in Action 70Voice of the Eagle 56von Gleich, Sigismund 17, 27Voors, Tÿno 70Vreede, Elizabeth 29Wadler, Arnold D. 8Warren, Edward 28

Water 6Water, Electricity & Health 64Water Crystals 83Watson, E. L. Grant 81Way of Seeing 74Way of Self-Knowledge 4Wegman, Ita 61Weirauch, Wolfgang 48Welburn, Andrew 23, 33, 35, 53, 55Wember, Valentin 22Werbeck-Svärdström, Valborg 77Western Approach to Reincarnation

and Karma 47Westlake, Jean 83Wetzl, Joseph 43What is Anthroposophy?

(Prokofieff) 17What Is Anthroposophy? (Steiner) 26What Is Art? 75What Is Biodynamics? 83What the Angels Need to Tell Us Now 48When Death Enters Life 45Where Are You? 45Wholeness of Nature 83Who Wrote Bacon? 75Why Me? 64Wijnberg, Nicholas 43Wilkens, Andreas 83Wilkes, John 80Wilkinson, Roy 33, 42Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven 71Willis, Liz 65Will to be Free 22Winter, Dina Soresi 13Wohrmann, Bernhard 82Wolff, Otto 61, 63Wolpert, Andrew 37Woodward, Bob 64Working Together on Rudolf Steiner’s

Mystery Dramas 78Working with Anthroposophy 38Working with Destiny II 37Work of the Angel in Our Astral Body 18World History and the Mysteries in

the Light of Anthroposophy 30Your Reincarnating Child 47Zanoni 72Zeylmans, Emanuel 71Zieve, Robert 21, 60Zimmermann, Heinz 69zur Linden, Wilhelm 61

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