Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy

Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy: A Graphic Introduction

Combining Lía Tummer’s lucid text and Lato’s creative and playful illustrations, Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy is a unique and highly engaging “graphic” introduction, suitable for both curious beginners and dedicated students.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner presented Anthroposophy as a “spiritual science” that expands on the restricted scientific, materialist ideology of our time. Based on profound knowledge of humankind and our relationship with nature and the universe, Anthroposophy provides not only rejuvenating impulses for the most diverse spheres of human activity—including medicine, education, agriculture, the arts, and science—but also answers the eternal questions posed by humankind, on which contemporary science remains indifferent:

What is life?
Where do we come from when we are born?
Where do we go when we die?
What is the meaning of pain and illness?
Why do people experience such differing challenges in life?

This charming book depicts the development of a universal genius, from his childhood in the untamed beauty of the Austrian Alps to the sublimities of human wisdom—from his work as a Goethe scholar to building the extraordinary Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.

C O N T E N T S:

Introduction

Born of the Woods
Masters
Goethe
Nietzsche
Haeckel
Theosophy
Marie von Sivers

The Birth of Anthroposophy
The Realms of Nature
The Image of Man
The Evolution of the Individual
Reincarnation and Karma
The Human Aura
The Path of Knowledge
The Akashic Record
Steiner’s Cosmology
The Birth of Human Individuality
Anthroposophy and Christianity

2nd Phase of Anthroposophy: The Artistic Impulse (1910–1916)
The “Drama Mysteries”
The Goetheanum
Eurythmy

3rd Phase of Anthroposophy: Practical Applications (1917–1925)
The Threefold Structuring of the Social Organism
The Waldorf Schools
The Waldorf Method
Therapeutic Education
An Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine
Biodynamic Agriculture
The Community of Christians
The Goetheanum Fire
1924–1025

Anthroposophical Organizations
Bibliography
Index
The Authors

About the Author

Lía Tummer works as a German and English translator. Her first contact with Anthroposophy came while studying in Waldorf schools. Through reading and translating anthroposophic texts, she has become knowledgeable in all its fields.