The Fourth Dimension: Sacred Geometry, Alchemy, and Mathematics 6 lectures, Berlin, March 24–June 7, 1905; 2 lectures, Nov. 7, 1905 & Oct. 22, 1908; Questions & Answers, 1904–1922 (CW 324) Anything dead tends to remain within the three ordinary dimensions, while anything living constantly transcends them. —Rudolf Steiner “Part of the charm of the fourth
How Can Mankind Find the Christ Again? The Threefold Shadow Existence of Our Time and the New Light of Christ 8 lectures, Basel and Dornach, Dec. 22, 1918 – Jan. 1, 1919 (CW 187) “This is the goal toward which mankind strives through the new wisdom, in the new spirit: To find in the spirit
Isis Mary Sophia: Her Mission and Ours The rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms—from the global movement for women’s rights to a renewed interest in feminine spirituality, the Goddess, and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning of this rebirth? What is the feminine divine? Who is she? The feminine divine has
Star Wisdom and Rudolf Steiner: A Life Seen through the Oracle of the Solar Cross A gift was given you at your first breath—have you opened it? It came from the stars and impressed itself into you at your most vulnerable moment. In this introduction to astrosophy, or star wisdom, a science with ancient roots and modern
Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life Stumbling through life, gazing at the stars, we can miss the greatest treasure beneath our feet. For the ordinary faculties of our soul—how we think, how we feel, how we act—are the rough and fallen forms of our highest spiritual capacities. This book shows how six of
Soul Economy: Body, Soul, and Spirit in Waldorf Education 16 lectures, Dornach, Dec. 23, 1921-Jan. 5, 1922 (CW 303) Today’s schools fill children’s heads with information instead of helping them develop their natural human faculties and capacities. They place too much stress on memory, leading to inner exhaustion instead of real learning for a healthy, fulfilling
Soul Development through Handwriting: The Waldorf Approach to the Vimala Alphabet Soul Development through Handwriting cultivates the noble qualities to which Waldorf education has long been devoted through the use of specific forms for shaping letters. The Vimala Alphabet was meticulously designed to support independent thinking, engaged willpower, balance, tolerance, honor, and intuition, as well as strengthening
Lara’s First Christmas Lara, along with her refugee parents, finds herself marooned in an isolated little hotel in snowbound Norway before World War II. Left all alone, she finds two eccentric old English guests who teach her to ski. And she discovers deep love and wisdom from the grandfatherly carpenter Andreas, who teaches her that
The Seer’s Handbook: A Guide to Higher Perception A seer “sees” more than meets the physical eye, using the eyes of the soul along with the physical eyes. All seeing is cognition, and higher “seeing” is the key to higher knowledge. For human beings, the spiritual world is hidden deep within the guise of the
The Roots of Education 5 lectures, Bern, April 13-17, 1924 (CW 309) These lectures on Waldorf education were given as a course during Easter week, 1924, in Bern. Although these talks were given more than eighty years ago, they remain remarkably contemporary. Every word still resonates with passion and dedication to the human adventure. “We
A Western Approach to Reincarnation and Karma: Selected Lectures and Writings The soul’s immortality and its repeated earthly births are not new ideas in Western thought. They are implicit in the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions, as well as in some branches of esoteric Judaism and Cabbala. But it was not until the early years of
Nature’s Open Secret: Introductions to Goethe’s Scientific Writings (CW 1) The holistic paradigm, Gaia, deep ecology, and new alchemy all have a hidden ancestor: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). At the youthful age of twenty-one, Steiner was chosen to edit Goethe’s scientific writings for the principle Goethe edition of his time. Goethe’s literary genius was
Love and Its Meaning in the World: Selected lectures and writings “For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world. Once we really understand the nature of love, or compassion, we will find that love is the way spirit expresses its truth in the world of the senses…. We
The Light Course: First Course in Natural Science: Light, Color, Sound – Mass, Electricity, Magnetism 11 lectures, Stuttgart and Dornach, Dec. 23, 1919 – Aug. 8, 1921 (CW 320) “Now the time has actually arrived when…we have a subconscious glimmering of the impossibility of the modern approach to nature and some sense that things have
Learning to See Into the Spiritual World: Lectures to the Workers at the Goetheanum 4 lectures to workers at the Goetheanum, Dornach, June 28 – July 18, 1923 (CW 350) “Truth and striving for truth must taste good to you; and lies, once you are conscious of them, must taste bitter and poisonous. You must
Judaism and Anthroposophy: Interfaces-Anthroposophy and the World Librarian Fred Paddock of the Rudolf Steiner Library initiated this book, because he had long felt the need to make available some of the cutting-edge writings of European Anthroposophists. Judaism and Anthroposophy examines the relationship between anthroposophy and religion, between Christian and Jewish esotericism, and between Kabbalah and anthroposophy.
Silence Is Complicity: A Call to Let Teachers Improve Our Schools through Action Research – Not NCLB* “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” —Albert Szent-Györgyi “We see only what we know.” —Goethe Society debates, legislates, and regulates education more than it does any other profession. It has become
Discussions With Teachers 15 discussions with teachers of the Stuttgart Waldorf School, Aug. 21 – Sept. 6, 1919 3 lectures on the curriculum, Sept. 6, 1919 (CW 295) “In spiritual science we divide the human being into ‘I’-being, astral body, etheric body, and physical body. In an ideal human being, the harmony predestined by the
The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman: Human Responsibility for the Earth 5 lectures, Dornach and Bern, November 1–15, 1919 (CW 191, 193) “Human beings are dwellers in two worlds. Our uniqueness amongst the creatures of earth lies in the role that we have as half beast and half angel. A dynamic tension exists because of
In Search of Ethical Leadership: If not now, when? Recently, a chasm has opened between many of our leaders and those who work for them. We have witnessed the sacrifices of airline workers and the unconscionable compensation of top executives; the ideals of Olympic Games and the conduct of certain committee members; the sacrament of
