The Gospel of St. Mark 10 lectures, Basel, September 15-24, 1912 (CW 139) Steiner tells us that Mark was especially able to reveal Christ as a cosmic being of his greatness and power, because, after having been a pupil of Peter, he moved to Alexandria during a time when Jewish philosophy and theology was at it’s peak.
Freedom of Thought and Societal Forces: Implementing the Demands of Modern Society 6 lectures in Ulm, Berlin, and Stuttgart, May 26–December 30, 1919 (CW 333) Freedom of Thought and Societal Forces offers a broad overview of Steiner’s fresh thinking on what he called the “threefold social order.” He acknowledged that the demand for social change derives
Unbornness: Human Pre-existence and the Journey toward Birth “Not only do we pass through the gate of death as immortal beings, we also enter through the gate of birth as unborn beings. We need the term unbornness, as well as the term immortality, to encompass the whole human being.” -Rudolf Steiner As anyone who has
Being Human: Diagnosis in Curative Education What does it mean to be human? Human development unfolds in a twofold way. On the one hand, there is an ever-more profound incarnation, or “inhabitation,” of the physical body. On the other hand, there is the increasing discrimination of the individual objects of the world. Difficulties and obstacles
Cosmic Christianity and the Changing Countenance of Cosmology: An Introduction to Astrosophy: A New Wisdom of the Stars Cosmic Christianity describes the relationship between the earthly and supra-earthly cosmic worlds by showing the relationship between the cosmos – as expressed in the movements of the stars – and the activities of Christ during his three
The Genius of Money: Essays and Interviews Reimagining the Financial World “To understand money in the deepest sense is to journey inwardly to grapple with the ‘money self,’ to become more conscious economic participants in financial transactions with the world, and last but not least, to work to meet the material needs of others so that
The Creative Power of Anthroposophical Christology: An Outline of Occult Science – The First Goetheanum – The Fifth Gospel – The Christmas Conference Sergei O. Prokofieff and Peter Selg, two leading authorities and spiritual researchers into the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, gave a series of conferences from 2009 to 2010 on the Christological foundations
Spirit and Art: Pictures of the Transformation of Consciousness A moving initiation into the sources of the spiritual in art. Van James explores for the reader a visual account of consciousness in the images, symbols and sacred sites from prehistoric times to the present. The book opens our perception to spiritual truths, provides glimpses into
Secrets of the Skeleton: Form in Metamorphosis “In this book, we are not dealing, as is usually the case, with statements that are, in my opinion, established facts…. The artistic part that lives in some form in each human being can be used as a means of observation. Thus, it is possible to observe things
Reverse Ritual: Spiritual Knowledge Is True Communion “Perception of the idea within the actual is the true communion of the human being” —Goethe Religious ritual is often seen as a way of bringing divine influences down into the material world. In this profound and stimulating work, Rudolf Steiner and Friedrich Benesch introduce the idea of “reverse ritual”—a
For the Love of Literature: A Celebration of Language and Imagination An unnoticed component of the present educational, social, and even ecological crises lies in the declining value given what we correctly call the “humanities.” The study of the living words of great authors—Homer, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Romantic poets, the Russian novelists—no longer forms
Encountering the Self: Transformation and Destiny in the Ninth Year It is between the ages of nine and ten that children begin to experience themselves as “I” for the first time—as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers and essentially alone. This inner experience is sometimes precipitated by the child’s first encounter with death
Biography and Waldorf Education “Where do abilities of soul and spirit originate? What does the seed look like that becomes visible when transformed into a flower? Why do we see withering and atrophy instead of the awaiting soul forces? Where do the tendencies lie that later appear as physical health or organic disease?… I realize
Art and Human Consciousness This survey of Western art from ancient Egypt to Picasso looks at visual art in a completely new and imaginative way. The lively and penetrating observations will inspire and enthuse the novice, while breathing new life into the thinking of art critics and historians. Gottfried Richter concerns himself broadly with architecture,
The Anthroposophical Understanding of the Soul: A new psychology of the human soul… Use of the word soul to denote the inner world of human experience has not been fashionable in the psychology of recent times. However, as Zeylmans van Emmichoven stresses in this groundbreaking study, human inner life is always active as a whole entity, which
Anthroposophy and Christianity Norrköping, 13 July, 1914 (CW 155) Following an excellent description of spiritual science as a training of consciousness (practical exercises are given), Steiner shows how, rather than establishing a “new” religion, spiritual science confirms Christianity as the universal, cosmic path of human evolution. About the Author Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was born in the
The Christian Mystery: Early Lectures In this major collection, Rudolf Steiner affirms the reality of esoteric Christianity and unveils many of its secret teachings. His lectures are on the significance of the Mystery of Golgotha and of the Blood that flowed on the Cross; the relationship of Christ and Lucifer (or Love and Knowledge); the
Mystics after Modernism: Discovering the Seeds of a New Science in the Renaissance (CW 7) The mystics Steiner writes about in this book were early giants in the modern art of illumined self-knowledge. Their ways of seeing the world, God, and themselves foreshadowed all that we practice now in the best of meditation, both East
Background to the Gospel of St. Mark 13 lectures, Berlin, Munich, Hanover & Koblenz, Oct. 17, 1910 – June 10, 1911 (GA124) In Background to the Gospel of St. Mark, Steiner shows the relevance of this Gospel especially to our present age, the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. He describes how each of the four Gospels was
Teaching as a Lively Art The author, an experienced Waldorf teacher and eurythmist, radiates her enthusiasm and sense for beauty as she takes us through the various stages of development of the child. She shows us that “ripeness is all,” that nothing can be taught to the child until it is ready to receive it
