Together on Earth

Together on Earth: The Golden Blade 1999

We find ourselves in manifold human constellations on this planet, in specific geographical locations, and with particular connections to the earth itself. In some ways we have come to experience this as one world rich in human diversity, in other ways the divisions on the globe seem to mock any notion of our being together on earth. How do the conditions in which we live together on earth make it possible for us to fulfill our individual and shared destinies? How does our relationship to the earth itself affect these tasks? How awake are we in our consciousness on earth to the spiritual communities that we are also part of?

Contributors:

– John Alexandra – Being born into a Brave New World
– Manfred Klett – The Biodynamic Farm: An Embryo for the Threefold Social Order in Our Time
– Simon Blaxland-de Lange – The Meeting of Karmic Streams in the Communications Age
– William Forward – Our Communion with the Dead
– Andrew Wolpert – Why on Earth Are We Here?
– Ken Gibson – The Karmic Community of Samuel Hartlib, John Dury, and Johann Amos Comenius
– Fumiko Chikami – Japan and My Destiny
– Sibylle Eichstaedt – Come Alive!
– Terry Boardman – Book Review: From Gondishapur to Silicon Valley by Paul Emberson
– Andrew Wolpert – Book Review: Leonardo da Vinci by David Alan Brown

About this Publication

The aim of The Golden Blade was to bring the outlook of Anthroposophy to bear on questions and activities of evident relevance to the present, in a way which may have lasting value. It was founded in 1949 by Charles Davy and Arnold Freeman, who were its first editors, and continued every year until 2009.

The title derives from an old Persian legend, according to which King Djemjdid received from his God, Ahura Mazdao, a golden blade with which to fulfil his mission on Earth. It carried the heavenly forces of light into the darkness of earthly substance, thus allowing its transformation. The legend seems to point to the possibility that man, through wise and compassionate work with the Earth, can one day regain on a new level what was lost when the Age of Gold was supplanted by those of Silver, Bronze and Iron. Technology could serve this aim; instead of endangering our planet’s life, it could help to make the Earth a new Sun.