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Man’s Being, His Destiny, and World-Evolution (eBook)
Man’s Being, His Destiny, and World-Evolution 6 lectures, Oslo, May 16-21, 1923 (CW 226) The lecture presented here were given by Rudolf Steiner at a series of public meetings in Christiana, Norway, in May, 1923. He had gone there at the invitation of Scandinavian friends to take part in the founding of the Anthroposophical Society
Education as a Social Problem (eBook)
Education as a Social Problem Six Lectures, Dornach, August 9-17, 1919 (CW 296) The six lectures in this volume were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart in September 1919, in the context of Germany’s post-war social ferment. Steiner points to negative tendencies present in modern social life as
Childhood (eBook)
Childhood: A Study of the Growing Child The author traces human development through childhood. She describes the spirit and soul as the child incarnates and how the individual comes to expression in various ways, including the particular temperament; the unique formative forces that give shape to the physical body; the development of consciousness; natural transitions
Weekly Meditations (eBook)
Weekly Meditations: Rudolf Steiner’s “Calendar of the Soul” with Accompanying Reflections “Prayer in a human being is a conscious expression of the upward trend of nature found everywhere. So every impulse or desire of the soul for life, love, light, is a prayer.”— Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray “I was surprised when I heard a ‘voice’ at
The Tension Between East And West (eBook)
The Tension Between East and West 10 lectures, Vienna, June 1-11, 1922 (CW 83) This challenging set of lectures attempts to lift the veil from modern social and spiritual problems as experienced in the contrasts between East and West. By ascribing to human thinking only a shadowy, subjective validity, modern science tries to invalidate the
Jesus, Lazarus, and the Messiah (eBook)
Jesus, Lazarus, and the Messiah: Unveiling Three Christian Mysteries “Humanity as a whole produced evangelists as mediators, who provided revelations that can be understood only gradually. These scriptures will be understood more and more as humanity progresses.” ―Rudolf Steiner, 1911 At the heart of the mystery of Christianity, we encounter the divinity of Jesus Christ―the revelation
Shards from the Heart (eBook)
Shards from the Heart: A Spiritual Odyssey in 20th-Century America The contents of Shards from the Heart, originally serialized in Free Deeds magazine, grew out of study sessions that took place over several years in New York City. Bernard Garber led these sessions in the late 1950s and early 1960s and courageously initiated numerous other activities for the
Earthly Death and Cosmic Life (eBook)
Earthly Death and Cosmic Life A Course of Seven Lectures Given at Berlin, Germany in 1918 (CW 181) The following lectures were given at a time during the first world war when many souls were passing through the gate of death. The desire for knowledge that will help to realize true links between the living
Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher (eBook)
Rudolf Steiner as a Spiritual Teacher: From Recollections of Those Who Knew Him “He listened extremely attentively, apparently not looking at me at all, but totally devoted to my words.” —Franz Kafka “The only love that you can show me is to call me anytime, day or night, when you need me.” —Rudolf Steiner (to Friedrich Rittelmeyer)
Water (eBook)
Water: The Element of Life “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
The Motherly and Fatherly Roles in Education (eBook)
The Motherly and Fatherly Roles in Education The author begins with a study of the parental elements as they manifest in the life of the protagonist of the medieval tale Parzival. The fourth chapter takes up such topics as the preexistent spiritual being of the child in relation to the two roles. The fifth chapter
Healthy Medicine (eBook)
This Healthy Medicine eBook brings physician Robert J. Zieve's guide to the emergence of sensible, comprehensive care to your reader. He shows how to move beyond today's "sickness care" system toward a model that unites integrative, energy and anthroposophic medicine with the psychology of illness, the daily disciplines of healing and the creative arts.
The Souls’ Awakening (eBook)
The Souls’ Awakening: A Mystery Drama A Series of Soul and Spiritual Events in Dramatic Scenes Rudolf Steiner said of his mystery dramas―written between 1910 and 1913―that they contain the whole essence of Anthroposophy and that if, through some unlikely chance, only these dramas were to survive, the essential content of Anthroposophy would nevertheless be preserved.
Zanoni (eBook)
Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale Zanoni, first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. Sir Edward, a Rosicrucian, wrote this engaging, well-researched, novel about the eternal conflict between head and heart, between wisdom and love, played out by the Rosicrucians before the dramatic background of the French Revolution. He described his book Zanoni as “a truth for those who
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (eBook)
Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900) was appointed to the post of Astronomer Royal for Scotland and Regius Professor of Astronomy at Edinburgh University in 1846. He was respected for his practical work, and his Teneriffe, an Astronomer’s Experiment (1858) is also reissued in this series. However, this book, first published
Graphology (eBook)
Graphology: The Science of Character in Handwriting There is a great deal to be learn from a careful inspection and consideration of handwriting, and this book offers a guide to the principles involved. Graphologists claim that a person’s natural temperament and characteristics are revealed by their handwriting. A bold energetic person will have a firm
Toward Imagination (eBook)
Toward Imagination: Culture and the Individual 7 lectures in Berlin, June 6 – July 18, 1916 (CW 169) Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of World War I, these seven lectures present Rudolf Steiner’s trenchant analysis of the malaise of our time. With wit and compassion, he vividly confronts us with the dead
The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita (eBook)
The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita 9 lectures, Helsinki, May 28 – June 5, 1913 (CW 146) Steiner delves deep into the old Indian scripture of ‘The Bhagavad Gita’ and tells of how in the midst of a fratricidal battle the lofty Krishna appears in spiritual form to the soldier Arjuna revealing the mysteries