The Incredible Births of Jesus No story is so well known, nor perhaps any so little understood, as the birth of Jesus. Its mystery steals into every heart as days shorten into winter. And commercialism’s thickening veneer has neither quieted the cry of every soul nor stilled its urge to penetrate through it all to
The Cycle of the Year: As a Breathing Process of the Earth 5 lectures, Dornach, March 31 – April 8, 1923 (GA 223) “Human beings must attain an esoteric maturity in order to think not merely abstractly, but to be able to think so concretely that they can again become festival-creating. Then it will be
School as a Journey: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class This is a lively, colorful, and absorbing account of a class teacher’s journey with his class, from first grade through the eighth grade in a Waldorf school. Straightforward and humorous, School as a Journey provides an excellent introduction to the daily activities of a
School Renewal: A Spiritual Journey for Change As a result of today’s crisis in education, people are beginning to realize that schools involve far more than providing children with knowledge and skills. Schools are communities and, like all communities, may be healthy or unhealthy. School Renewal addresses the problems and challenges of a school community. Through the
The Soul’s Long Journey: How the Bible Reveals Reincarnation Here are amazing insights showing reincarnation to be deeply and powerfully revealed in the Bible’s most fundamental aspects. How and why have these insights escaped attention for so long? At last, they are uncovered here by a confluence of conventional Bible study and the epochal spiritual discoveries
Social Issues: Meditative Thinking & the Threefold Social Order 5 lectures, Basel and Zurich, January 5-March 18, 1920 (CW 334) Transforming society requires a transformation of thinking! In these relevant timely lectures for today, Rudolf Steiner shows that modern political, economic, and social problems are symptoms of our faulty thinking. His convincing analysis of economic crises,
Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy (Vol. 1) 9 lectures, various cities, February 23, 1921-September 16, 1922 (CW 304) This is the first of two previously untranslated volumes of Steiner’s public lectures on Waldorf education. Readers familiar with Steiner’s lectures for teachers will discover here how Steiner presented his ideas to the general public with surprising directness.
Inner Impulses of Evolution: The Mexican Mysteries and the Knights Templar 7 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 16-Oct. 1, 1916 (CW 171) From the foreword by Steward C. Easton In these lectures Rudolf Steiner provides some historical material that not only cannot be confirmed—like the prehistorical material given in Occult Science and elsewhere—but appears to be even
The Renewal of the Social Organism (CW 24) “History often provides insight into the present. Consider the American South one hundred and fifty years ago, for example. There, human rights and economic servitude were compressed onto a single domain for black Americans. They became a means of production that could be bought and sold as
What Is Waldorf Education? Three Lectures 3 selected lectures by Rudolf Steiner This is a reader-friendly Waldorf “taster,” with three public lectures by Rudolf Steiner on Waldorf education and a thought-provoking, accessible introduction by a Waldorf teacher and longtime student of Steiner’s pedagogy. These lectures by Steiner present what he sees as the “fundamentals” in a
Education in Search of the Spirit: Essays on American Education Real education will always seek to strengthen what is best in the human soul: its longing for the experience of spiritual truth that brings into the self an objective appreciation of the noble aspects of its own nature, together with a subjective sense of real
Reincarnation and Karma: Two Fundamental Truths of Human Existence 5 lectures, Berlin and Stuttgart, January-March 1912 (CW 135) “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
Man and World In the Light of Anthroposophy A sense of alienation and isolation is part of the experience of every modern man. Social and political life are governed by fear and uncertainty. People are strangers both to one another and to the world. Why are these conditions more acute now than ever before in
Holy Visions, Sacred Stories: Realities from the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich On the one hand, New Testament scholarship has been preoccupied with a search for the “historical Jesus.” On the other, twists and turns occurring after the first century brought about “an enforced orthodoxy” that views modern visionaries as heretics. The inconclusive nature of theology
A Grand Metamorphosis: Contributions to the Spiritual-Scientific Anthropology and Education of Adolescents “A tumultuous situation arises in the relationship between the adolescent…and the world. This tumultuous situation is necessary, and as teachers, we need to have it in mind during the years leading up to it. Overly sensitive teachers might get the idea that it would
The Essence of Waldorf Education “It is a simple but essential principle: education aims at the future, at a time that we as educators do not yet know and cannot foresee. The challenges that will confront the children in the future are not those of the past—of our past, of our life story and our
The Therapeutic Eye: How Rudolf Steiner Observed Children Rudolf Steiner’s extraordinary ability to perceive the inner nature and development of children provided insights at many levels and areas of the creative learning process. He spoke of this ability as a precondition for all forms of healthy childhood education—including special education—and suggested that teachers should develop such
Mystery Streams in Europe and the New Mysteries This book is intended for those who wish to deepen their relationship to the Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science founded by Rudolf Steiner. It shows how the four great mystery streams have worked in the past and how Steiner attempted to join these four
The Biodynamic Farm: Agriculture in Service of the Earth and Humanity Bankrupt farmers, erosion of topsoil, and poor food quality owing to pesticides, hormones, and other additives—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
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity Written in 1894 (CW 4) “Materialism can never provide a satisfactory explanation of the world. For every attempt at an explanation must begin with one’s forming thoughts for oneself about the phenomena of the world. Materialism therefore takes its start with the thought of matter or of material processes. Thus, it already has two
