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Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry

When Knowing Becomes Love
“This book is an outstanding contribution to

W hen we turn to meditation, we are turning

toward renewal, peace, and insight. Ini-
tially, we may take up contemplative practice as a
means of tapping into the abundant resources of
the mind and heart that bring serenity, but the med-
itative journey leads further—to the place where
wisdom and love unite.
In Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry, Ar-
thur Zajonc offers an overview of the meditative
life, weaving practical instruction together with
the guidance and inspiration of the world’s great
teachers, from Rudolf Steiner to Rumi, and from
Goethe to the sages of Asia.
Arthur Zajonc reminds us that an ethic of humil-
ity grounds all practice, and that care of the soul
is the basis for sound spiritual reflection and un-
derstanding. The author carefully describes each
stage of the path and includes many recommend-
ed practices.
Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry is the fruit
of many years of personal practice and teaching.
Zajonc developed his orientation toward medita-
tion through working with hundreds of university
students and professors, as well as with contem-
plative groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia.
addressing a root issue of our time: how
to integrate the quest for scientific clarity,
contemplative awakening, and improved
personal practices in a way that is clear,
integrates Eastern and Western wisdom
traditions, and offers readers practical methods and tools. It is highly recom-
mended for those who want to deepen their personal foundations for pro-
found change and presencing-based leadership work.” —Otto Scharmer,
MIT, author of Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges
“Mediation as Contemplative Inquiry is a profound and masterful exposition
of the calling, challenges, and, above all, the immediate and the harder-to-
extract-but-worth-it gifts of meditative inquiry. Disciplining our unruly minds
with marvelous exercises in attention and apperception that use all the senses
and intelligences available to us, Arthur Zajonc employs his great skill as
a teacher, his loving prose, and his razor-sharp intellect to guide us in the
experience of a compassionate practice of knowing. Following his path, we
can develop and bring to the fore the full dimensionality of our humanness,
for ourselves and for others. A glistening gem of a book.” —Jon Kabat-Zinn,
author of Coming to Our Senses and Arriving at Your Own Door
“In this beautifully written work, Arthur Zajonc, a seasoned meditator in the
anthroposophic tradition, offers gentle and wise guidance on the path of
contemplative inquiry. Drawing both on the writings of Rudolf Steiner and on
the world’s spiritual traditions, he presents universal truths that are relevant to
all contemplative paths, East and West. With a rare combination of scientific
rigor, poetic appreciation, and spiritual insight, Meditation as Contemplative
Inquiry will enrich the lives of all those who read it and even more so those
who put its wise counsel into practice.” —B. Allan Wallace, author of The
Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

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ARTHUR ZAJONC is Andrew Mellon professor of physics and interdisciplinary studies at Amherst College (Amherst,
Massachusetts), where he has taught since 1978. He has been visiting professor and research scientist at the Ecole
Normale Superieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and a Fulbright professor at the University
of Innsbruck in Austria. His research has included studies in parity violation in atoms, the experimental foundations
of quantum physics, and the relationship between sciences, the humanities and meditation. He is author of the book
Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind; coauthor of The Quantum Challenge; and coeditor of
Goethe’s Way of Science. Since 1997, he has served as scientific coordinator for the Mind and Life dialogue with
H. H. the Dalai Lama, whose meetings have been published as The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama
and The Dalai Lama at MIT. He is cofounder of the Barfield School of Graduate Studies of Sunbridge College and currently directs
the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind, which supports appropriate inclusion of contemplative practice in
higher education. He has also been General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America, a co-founder of the Kira Institute,
president of the Lindisfarne Association, and a senior program director at the Fetzer Institute.
Dear friend,
Another productive year brings us the publica-
tion of many new works from anthroposophic
writers. To highlight a few, William Ward’s book,
Traveling Light (page 3), is the triumphant result
of a tragic turn of events for its author—the diagnosis of
a brain tumor. To those who know William, it comes as
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no surprise that the book is uplifting and inspiring. We
also have major new books from Marko Pogacnik (page
8), Peter Selg (page 9), Patricia Sherwood (page 17), and
Patsy Scala (page 5). In another new book—The Inner
Life of the Earth (page 7)—we have original contribu-
tions from Paul O’Leary. Christopher Bamford, Dennis
Klocek. David Mitchell. Marko Pogacnik, Robert Powell,
and Rachel C Ross, who offer their unique views while
building on Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric views of the Earth’s
interior. Other books of note include two new transla-
tions of works by Georg Kühlewind: The Light of the Rudolf Steiner’s “Verse for America”
“I” (page 3) and Wilt Thou Be Made Whole? (page 9), as
Given to Ralph Courtney, a pioneer of
well as a number of new titles in “The Collected Works
Anthroposophy in North America, this
of Rudolf Steiner.” verse for the American spirit speaks of the
The articles and extracts in this issue vary widely. Paul inner unity of human beings and of sup-
O’Leary’s introduction to The Inner Life of the Earth port from the spiritual world for our efforts:
offers insights gleaned from years of research into anthro-
posophic wisdom on this topic. An excerpt from Rob-
May our feeling penetrate
ert Powell’s new book arises from his study of esoteric
Christianity, astrosophy, and the visions of Sister Anne into the center of our heart,
Catherine Emmerich, and “Weekly Meditations” brings and seek, in love, to unite itself
short excerpts from that popular new book. “Touch-
ing the World” records a talk by Dan McKanan at this with the human beings seeking the same goal,
year’s Spiritual Research Seminar in NYC. Included, too, with the spirit beings who — bearing grace,
is Michael Lipson’s introduction to Georg Kühlewind’s
strengthening us from realms of light,
new book, Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?
We hope you enjoy and benefit from this issue of Steiner and illuminating our love —
& Spirit. Let us know what you think—we always enjoy
are gazing down upon
hearing from you.
All best wishes, our earnest, heartfelt striving.
Gene Gol l ogly
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Books: Economic Renewal & Social Issues 71

Biography 74
New for 2008 3
Spiritual Fiction 75
The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner 21
Prayer, Verses & Meditations 76
Rudolf Steiner’s Foundational Works 24
Arts & Literature 78
The Fundamentals of Anthroposophy 26
Science & Nature 83
Rudolf Steiner’s Talks with Workers at the Goetheanum 33
Biodynamic Farming & Gardening 88
The Life & Work of Rudolf Steiner 34
Star Wisdom 90
Esoteric Studies 36
Inner Development 41 Articles & Excerpts:
Myth, Evolution & History 43 “The Inner Life of the Earth” by Paul V. O’Leary 93
Life after Death 46 “The Mystery of Mary Magdalene” by Robert Powell 96
Reincarnation and Karma 47 “Weekly Meditations” by Rudolf Steiner & Patsy Scala 101
Spirit Worlds & Beings 49 “Touching the World” by Dan McKanan 104
Esoteric Christianity 50 “Six Meditations” by Rudolf Steiner 111
Sophia Studies 60 “Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?” By Michael Lipson 112
The Cycle of the Year 62
Index of Books & Authors 114
Nutrition, Health & Therapies 63
Biographical Issues 68 SteinerBooks’ Statement of Purpose 118

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Traveling Light
Walking the Cancer Path
William Ward
T his generous, courageous, and wise book offers a self-
less glimpse behind the curtain of a journey with can-
cer, from shock to inner rebirth and the gradual discovery
of light in the darkness.
William Ward has written a personal account of his
life following a fateful diagnosis of a brain tumor. With
no trace of self-pity and rising above sentimentality, he
describes the landscape of his outer path through hospi-
tals, surgeons, pain, powerful drugs, and the support of
family, friends, and community. With fearless honesty he
invites the reader to accompany him on the inner path of
inevitable regrets, self-examination, fears, and hopes in
the face of a potentially terminal illness.
Until it happens to us, we can never know for sure how
we would respond as individuals to a catastrophic event
in our lives, but by telling the most personal of all stories,
William Ward shows us a way forward that goes well
beyond our personal differences. With compassion and
humor, Ward bears witness to the presence of living light
in the darkest of human experiences, demonstrating how,
if we face it, the Dark Night of the Soul necessarily leads
to awaking in the light of a new dawn.
William Ward is a native of Michigan. He
majored in English literature as an under-
graduate at Columbia University and then
studied elementary education at the Waldorf
Institute of Adelphi University, receiving a
master’s degree there. For the past twenty-
five years, he has been a class teacher at the
Hawthorne Valley School in Harlemville, New York. A
lover of the theater, William has written many class plays
and festival presentations and collaborated in all-school
musical productions.
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The Light of the “I”
Guidelines for Meditation
Georg Kühlewind
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
“I recommend this generous, instructive book to anyone
who wants to begin meditating and also to those who
want to refresh their existing practice.”
—Gertrude Reif Hughes, Professor Emerita of English
and Women’s Studies at Wesleyan University
T his remarkable short guide to meditation is the fruit of
many years of meditative experience as well as thirty
years of teaching meditation. Through exercises and
meditation sentences it delineates an accessible, system-
atic process of inner work by which a person can come to
experience both the “I,” and the miraculous nature of the
interior Light we call attention.
Beginning with simple meditation sentences that illumi-
nate the role of attention in perception, the person wish-
ing to take this path is led gradually to the reality and
experience of form-free attention. Kühlewind provides
guidance through systematic concentration exercises,
sentence meditations, visualizations (image or symbol
meditations), and perceptual meditations. He also offers
advice and help with difficulties and some of the prob-
lems that can arise.
Each stage of the path is presented in a way to be
understood through meditative thinking. Deepened in
this way, it becomes, as well, a work of philosophy—but
philosophy understood as a transformative way of life,
an inner path.
Georg Kühlewind (1924–2006) was a
Hungarian philosopher, writer, lecturer, and
meditation teacher who worked from the tra-
dition of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science. A
prolific author, Kühlewind spent much time
traveling, lecturing, and teaching meditation,
psychology, epistemology, child development,
Anthroposophy, and esoteric Christianity.
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Death as Metamorphosis of Life
Including “What Does the Angel Do in our Astral Body?”
& “How Do I Find Christ?”
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Translated by Sabine Seiler
7 Lectures, various cities, Nov.–Oct. 1918 (CW 182)
S teiner begins by describing the three realms after
earthly life—that of intense, surging sensations
of sympathy and antipathy; the ebb and flow of will
impulses that stream into the human sphere, affecting in
increasingly wider circles human life on Earth; and the
spiritual hierarchies. As he says, “My primary mission
these days is to make people aware again, with the help
of such ideas, that the dead are working and contributing
to human development.”
Next, Steiner amplifies this mission, explicitly and
implicitly. The point is to understand that we are spir-
itual beings and live in perpetual interaction with the
spiritual world—not just the dead, but also with Christ
and angelic worlds. The final two lectures offer a clarion
call for us to awake to the demands of human evolution,
toward which the entire spiritual world is working: free-
dom and love, which requires us to work with the angels
and with Christ to overcome egotism, the sole obstacle
to the spirituality of the future.
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) became a
respected and well-published scientific, lit-
erary, and philosophical scholar. He devel-
oped his earlier philosophical principles
into an approach to methodical research
of psychological and spiritual phenom-
ena that has led to innovative and holis-
tic approaches in medicine, philosophy, religion, educa-
tion, science, agriculture, and the arts. He founded the
General Anthroposophical Society, which has branches
throughout the world.
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The Influence of the Dead on Destiny
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
8 lectures, Dornach, December 2–22, 1917 (CW 179)
W ith a single observation, Rudolf Steiner can some-
times outline a radically new reality that changes
everything. Here, he introduces these extraordinary lec-
tures by proposing that the boundary between the physi-
cal and spiritual worlds “lies right in the middle of the
human being.”
One indication of this boundary may be found in
what science mistakenly differentiates as the sensory
and motor nerves, which, for Steiner, do not represent
two different kinds of nerve functioning, but rather a
gap, or interruption, through which soul-spiritual real-
ity incarnates and the spiritual world participates in the
physical-natural world. This gap makes it possible for us
to inwardly experience and participate in not only the
outer world, but also in the spiritual world and the world
of the so-called dead. It also functions as the boundary
between the conscious and subconscious.
The lectures that follow enter the vast field of the dead,
the spiritual worlds, and the many ways these influence
and play into earthly and human life. Steiner shows how
the living, the dead, and the whole spiritual world are
interrelated and how history is the result of this interplay
between the “living” and the “dead.” Realizing “this
feeling of being together with the dead” is indispensable
for continued human development.
Understanding of the influence from the dead and the
spiritual world on human destiny deepens with each
lecture as Steiner shows how this reality becomes truly
essential—and a question of personal decision—through
the Archangel Michael’s great deed in 1879, when he
assumed responsibility for the guidance of humanity.
Together with Michael and the whole spiritual world,
the “dead” call upon us to change our consciousness.
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Goethe’s Theory of Knowledge
An Outline of the Epistemology of His Worldview
Rudolf Steiner
Tranlated by Peter Clemm
Written 1886 (CW 2)
A s the editor of Goethe’s scientific writings during the
1880s, Rudolf Steiner became immersed in a world-
view that paralleled and amplified his own views in
relation to epistemology, the interface between science
and philosophy, the theory of how we know the world
and ourselves. At the time, like much of the thinking
today and the foundation of modern natural science, the
predominant theories held that individual knowledge is
limited to thinking that reflects objective, sensory per-
ception. Steiner’s view was eventually distilled in his
Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts in 1924:
There are those who believe that, with the limits of
knowledge derived from sensory perception, the lim-
its of all insight are given. Yet if they would carefully
observe how they become conscious of these limits, they
would find in the very consciousness of the limits the
faculties to transcend them.
In Goethe’s Theory of Knowledge, Steiner lays out his
argument for this view and, moreover, begins his expli-
cation of how one goes beyond thinking to observation
of thinking itself. This is valuable reading for an essen-
tial understanding of the foundations underlying Rudolf
Steiner’s Anthroposophy.
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Weekly Meditations
Rudolf Steiner’s “Calendar of the Soul”
with Accompanying Reflections
Rudolf Steiner & Patsy Scala
A
sked how one might find a way into Christianity,
the Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast
advised, “Meditate the sacred year.” In the same vein,
when asked what a lifetime’s study of Anthroposophy
had given him, the English philosopher Owen Barfield
replied, “I now have some idea of the reality of the liv-
ing year.” For readers who like to chew meditatively on
poetry, Weekly Meditations will put them firmly on the
path to realizing both of these great realities.
Rudolf Steiner’s weekly verses allow attentive readers
to follow the course of the year in body, soul, and spirit.
In addition, from the perspective of one who has sought
to live inwardly with the sacred, living year, Patsy Scala’s
poetic reflections, which arose from her deep practice
of the verses, provide an accessible and complementary
guide to one’s daily practice.
Weekly Meditations is a book to keep handy and reread
throughout the seasons of the year.
Patsy Scala is the vice president and a
director of the Center for Spiritual and
Cultural Unity in Syracuse, NY, a not-for-
profit organization and resource for those
in search of a complete life in body, soul,
and spirit. A former vice president at Mer-
rill Lynch, she retired in 2007 after twenty-seven years
with the firm. Patsy’s first book, Seven Steps to Everyday
Mysticism, was published in 2002, and she has spoken
extensively in Unity churches on Creating Prosperity in
Your Life. A student of Anthroposophy, she is a mem-
ber of the Anthroposophical Society in America, as well
as the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. She
lives on Mystic Mountain in New Woodstock, New York,
with her husband Joseph and their dog Muffin.
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Youth and the Etheric Heart
Rudolf Steiner Speaks
to the Younger Generation
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
16 lectures, 1920–1924 (CW 217a)
A t the first event in the
Goetheanum, in autumn 1920,
Steiner addressed the students
assembled in Dornach. He continued
the theme in Stuttgart during spring
1921. The first five lectures begin
in Dornach during the first course
on higher education in 1920 and
end in Stuttgart the following year
at a public conference, “Cultural
Prospects of the Anthroposophical
Movement.” The October lectures
of the youth course took place the
following year.
At Christmas 1922, Steiner
announced another lecture course:
“The Moment of Emergence of Natu-
ral Science in World History and Its
Subsequent Development.” The lec-
tures were open to members of the
Anthroposophical Society and those
with an unbiased interest. Young
adults were present, and Steiner
addressed them specifically on Janu-
ary 6, 1923.
Later, at the “Christmas Confer-
ence,” Steiner created the Section for
the “Spiritual Striving of Youth.” In
a series of essays, he drafted the idea
of this workplace for young adults
and the goals it would attempt to
realize.
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Becoming the Archangel
Michael’s Companions
Rudolf Steiner’s Challenge
to the Younger Generation
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by René M. Querido
13 lectures, Stuttgart, Oct. 3–15, 1922
(CW 217)
R
udolf Steiner presented these lec-
tures to about a hundred German
young people who hoped to bring
Waldorf education into the culture of
their time and for the future. Steiner
stressed upon his listeners the great
importance of “self-education” as a
prerequisite to all other education.
His was an attempt to guide the
youth toward understanding them-
selves within the world situation.
Steiner showed how the stream
of generations had been interrupted
by eighteenth-century intellectual-
ism, emphasizing that they would
have to reject the general acceptance
of impersonal social routine, dead
intellectual thinking, and personal
and social egoism. Steiner discussed
the need, instead, for a form of edu-
cation permeated by art and feel-
ing, which brings inner nourishment
that can grow throughout one’s life.
It was his view that, without such
an education, society will not reach
a future built on moral love and
mutual human confidence—a truly
human culture.
A previous edition was titled The
Younger Generation.
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Cosmic New Year
Thoughts for New Year 1920
5 lectures, Stuttgart, December 18,
1919–January 4, 1920 (CW 195)
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Translated by Peter Clemm
D uring Christmastime of 1919
to 1920, Rudolf Steiner was
in Stuttgart to celebrate the end
of the first semester of the first
Waldorf school and participate in
its Christmas festivities. During his
visit, he gave not only two courses
for teachers (The Light Course
and The Genius of Language),
but also the five lectures for
Anthroposophical Society members
collected in this book.
As with all of Steiner’s lectures
given around the Holy Nights, these
jewel-like lectures are both inspir-
ing and sobering. The Archangel
Michael is once again the “world
regent.” He shows us a new path to
Christ and to the spirit world, call-
ing on us to create new relationships
to spiritual realities. Yet, inertia or
lack of will, materialism, and pow-
erful opposing forces make his and
our task more difficult. World War
I had ended, but peace was still a
distant hope. Prescient to our own
moment, these stirring lectures are
more relevant than ever, still inspir-
ing a call to arms.
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The Mystery, Biography, and Destiny
of M ary M agdalene
Sister of Lazaraus John & Spiritual Sister of Jesus
Robert Powell
I n this lean, accessible, and cogent book,
Robert Powell sifts through the rubble of
fads and distortions, through the shadows
of misunderstanding and doubt, to reveal
the true Mary Magdalene. He finds her in
the work and visions of the German nun
and mystic, Anne Catherine Emmerich
(1774–1824). A contemporary of Beethoven and Goethe,
as well as the poet Clemens Brentano, who had a close
relationship with and was her scribe, Sr. Emmerich
received the stigmata at the age of thirty-eight. She lived
for another twelve years without eating solid food, except
for taking daily communion. For the most part illiterate,
Sr. Emmerich dictated remarkably accurate accounts,
within the bounds of scholarship, of Jesus’ ministry.
Sr. Emmerich’s visions include the life of Mary
Magdalene and the remarkable relationship she had with
her siblings, Lazarus and Martha. Although Lazarus
and Martha lived the spiritual life and recognized Jesus
as the Messiah, Mary lived the high life. All three grew
up in a castle northeast of Jerusalem. Eventually, Mary
found herself riveted by the powerful words of Jesus.
He first cast out one demon, then the seven demons as
described in the Bible. Joining the Virgin Mary’s circle
of women, Mary Magdalene was prepared for the great
experience of discovering the empty tomb on the morn-
ing of Jesus’ Resurrection.
Robert Powell was born in Reading, Eng-
land, in 1947. He received a master’s degree
in mathematics at the University of Sussex
and a Ph.D., at the Academy of Science
in Warsaw. He is a eurythmist and move-
ment therapist living in Kinsau, Germany.
Powell is author of numerous books and articles and is a
cofounder of the Sophia Foundation of North America.
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The Inner Life of the Earth
Exploring the Mysteries of Nature, Subnature, and Supranature
Paul V. O’Leary, editor
Contributors: Christopher Bamford, Dennis Klocek,
David Mitchell, M arko Pogacnik, Robert Powell,
Rachel C. Ross
T hroughout human history, ancient wis-
dom and traditional myths have placed
human beings between the heavens and the
underworld, describing the heavens as the
light-filled realm of the gods and the source
of goodness, and characterizing the under-
world as a demon-filled realm of darkness
and the source of evil. Modern science, however, denies
the heavens and knows little of the Earth’s interior — even
physically — beyond the first few miles, after which it
simply resorts to conjecture based on the extrapolation
of existing sensory data. In other words, natural science
fails to take into account that the Earth is a living, spiri-
tual being and ignores the presence of its soul-spiritual
qualities and influences.
To remedy this, during the early twentieth century,
Rudolf Steiner researched the psychic, spiritual, and
cosmic nature of the Earth’s interior. He described how
the different layers of the inner Earth affect and interact
with human beings living on Earth. More theologically
and cosmically, he spoke of the layers of “Hell,” through
which the Jesus Christ traveled in the period between the
Crucifixion and the Resurrection, uniting and integrat-
ing himself with the Earth and human destiny.
The seven authors in The Inner Life of the Earth
approach this difficult and little-discussed topic from
different directions. They discuss how the forces ema-
nating from the interior of the Earth affect the weather,
our atmosphere, human beings, and how human behav-
ior in turn affects them, showing that earthly and human
evolution are a unity and should never be thought of as
occurring separately. They also discuss the deep signifi-
cance of Christ’s incarnation, by which he united with
the Earth to become the Spirit of the Earth.
Paul V. O’Leary is a retired real estate
appraiser and “recovering attorney” who
specialized in forensic appraisals and the
appraisal of conservation properties. He
has written, taught and lectured exten-
sively.
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Sacred Geography
Geomancy: Co-creating the Earth Cosmos
M arko Pogacnik
S acred Geography has been in the making for well over
ten years, as Marko and his daughters Ana and Ajra
have continued to develop, teach, and practice a new geo-
mancy throughout the world. Sacred Geography is the
consummate synthesis of Marko’s thinking and practical
work since taking up the task of addressing how we can
live and co-create with the many dimensions of life on
our beloved Earth.
“Geomancy is an ancient word denoting knowledge of
the invisible and visible dimensions of the Earth and
its landscapes. I see it as an essential complement to
modern geography, which is interested exclusively in one
level of reality, the material level of existence. To convey
the idea that geomantic knowledge in a very specific way
complements the material point of view of geography, I
refer to geomancy as “sacred geography.” By “sacred” I
mean that the task of geomancy in our present day is
not simply to foster public interest in etheric, emotional
and spiritual levels of places and landscapes, but also to
promote a deeper, more loving, and more responsible re-
lationship toward the Earth, the Cosmos, and all beings,
visible and invisible.”
Marko describes the essence and purpose of this book
as not only a theoretical introduction to the worlds of
sacred geography, but, more important, a practical guide
through various dimensions of place and landscape. The
text is brought alive and illustrated with nearly two hun-
dred original drawings to accompany the exercises and
practical examples from around the world.
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Venice
Discovering a Hidden Pathway
M arko Pogacnik
M arko Pogacnik researched the inner meaning and
patterns in Venice. The tools for his inner work—
the science of intuition—include the classic four elements
of earth, water, air and fire; the Chinese polarity of yin
and yang; and the alchemical concept of creation as the
wedding of feminine and masculine.
Using this process, Pogacnik discovered that nothing
in Venice is happenstance, including its shape, which
suggests a great fish; its overall layout, architecture, and
location; the locations of palaces and places of worship;
and even Venetian works of art. The “hidden path” is
revealed when the author joins the results of his intuitive
research with rational modes of perception.
Venice: Discovering a Hidden Pathway offers not only
a new way to see Venice, but also new insights and ways
to go beyond the surface of any cultivated cityscape.
Thoroughly illustrated.
Marko Pogacnik was born in 1944 in
Kranj, Slovenia. He studied sculpting at
university and acquired an international
reputation in conceptual land art. He has
developed this further into Earth “lith-
opuncture,” whose goal is to heal disturbed
landscapes and power points. He leads sem-
inars in earth healing in several countries and provides
advice on landscape matters for communities and busi-
nesses. Marko Pogacnik is a lecturer at the Hagia Chora
School for Geomancy, founded in 1995. Marko is the
author of numerous other books, including How Wide
the Heart with Ana Pogacnik (2006) and Turned Upside
Down (2004).
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Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?
Healings in the Gospels
Georg Kühlewind
Introduction by Michael Lipson, ph.d.
“Georg Kühlewind has and continues to be a central for-
mative being in the work of spiritual psychology and my
own individual meditative practices as well.”
—Robert Sardello, Codirector,
The School of Spiritual Psychology,
author, Love and the World and Silence
W hat is the power that Jesus calls to awaken in us?
What does it mean to be healthy and whole? How
can we open ourselves so that the healing power can heal
what is sick? How can we awaken this inner power?
“Wilt thou be made whole?” is the question Jesus
addressed to the paralyzed man who had waited in vain
for years at the Pool of Bethesda. Not really answering,
he replied that he had no one to carry him down when
the angel stirred the waters. “Take up your bed and
walk,” Jesus tells him, and the man was made whole
and walked.
Beginning with a meditation-based account of the
embodied psycho-spiritual human being, Kühlewind
describes the preconditions and possibilities of healing in
the Gospels. He goes on to discuss in depth and detail,
through meditations, Christ’s various psychological and
physical healing events.
The unique quality of this book is that Georg Küh-
lewind utilizes healing events in the Gospels as themes
for meditation—spiritual exercises that can bring us to a
more intimate understanding of Christ’s healing power.
In this way, Kühlewind shows us how to approach a
deeper understanding of the healing process itself and
begin to heal ourselves. In the process, we come to
understand the Gospels and ourselves in a new way.
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The Therapeutic Eye
How Rudolf Steiner Saw Children
Peter Selg
R udolf 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 a capacity within themselves.
This process involves the recreation of the child within
oneself, based on what we are able to observe in the
child’s physical appearance, temperament, ways of mov-
ing, and environment. In The Therapeutic Eye, Dr. Peter
Selg discusses Steiner’s views on childhood development,
how teachers can look at children, and ways that these
approaches can be used to develop lessons and classroom
activities to deal with behavioral extremes and learning
challenges.
The Therapeutic Eye is a valuable resource for teachers
and parents.
Peter Selg was born in 1953 in Stuttgart
and studied medicine in Zurich and Berlin.
Until 2000, he worked as the head physician
of the juvenile psychiatry department of Her-
decke hospital in Germany. He works as a
youth psychiatrist at the Ita Wegman Clinic in Arlesheim,
Switzerland, and lectures extensively. Dr. Selg is also the
author of Karl Konig’s Path to Anthroposophy; Ita Weg-
man and Karl König; and Seeing Christ in Sickness and
Healing. He is married with three children.
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Eurythmy Forms
for Tone Eurythmy
Rudolf Steiner
S teiner produced some fifteen
hundred forms for speech and
tone eurythmy performances in
Dornach and other places. Many of
the forms for tone eurythmy came
about as spontaneous responses
to requests from eurythmists for
forms—a spontaneity that is readily
apparent in the sketches themselves.
Some forms were drawn at rehears-
als as Steiner listened to the music.
Others he sketched in the evening
after having heard the music once,
having them ready for rehearsal the
next day. During the time he was
confined to bed with his final illness,
Steiner drew new forms by merely
looking at the sheet music.
This volume contains facsimiles
of the Steiner’s original drawings
and, in many cases, instructions for
performance. Included are forms for
compositions by Bach, Beethoven,
Brahms, Chopin, Franck, Grieg,
Handel, Lewerenz, Liszt, Mozart,
Reger, Schubert, Schumann, Scri-
abin, van Stuten, Tartini, and many
more.
Students, performers, and teachers
will benefit from Eurythmy Forms
for Tone Eurythmy, as well as any-
one who would like to better under-
stand eurythmy movement.
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Christ and the Human Soul
Rudolf Steiner
4 lectures, Norrköping, Sweden,
July 1914 (CW 155)
I n these four remarkable lectures,
Steiner contends that Christ has
been working on the behalf of
humankind since the very begin-
nings of human existence, long
before the inception of Christianity.
Steiner indicates how—in the
ancient mystery schools and in the
miraculous events depicted in the
Old Testament—the guiding hand of
Christ shaped and developed human
cognition.
The ultimate divine intervention
took place with the incarnation
of Christ in human form, which
culminated in the Mystery of Gol-
gotha. Through this grand event,
the opportunity arose for every soul
to develop immortal individuality
and “I” awareness. Steiner clarifies
the difficult concepts of sin, guilt,
and karma and explains the mean-
ing of “forgiveness of sins” and the
“resurrection of the body.” Looking
forward to future great periods of
evolution, he speaks of the separa-
tion of humanity into the two races
of good and evil and describes how
Christ will continue to work in that
critical time of human development.
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The Festivals and Their Meaning
Rudolf Steiner
T hirty of Rudolf Steiner’s most
important lectures on the festivals
are contained in this important col-
lection. He illumines the true mean-
ing of Christmas, Easter, Ascension,
Pentecost, and Michaelmas, empha-
sizing their inner spiritual and outer
cosmic aspects. Steiner shows that
the festivals not only commemorate
great historical events and truths
of the Christian tradition, but are
themselves spiritual events that man-
ifest in natural rhythms and carry a
significance that grows and deepens
with human evolution.
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The Book of Revelation
And the Work of the Priest
18 Lectures, with conversations,
Dornach, September 1924 (CW 346)
Rudolf Steiner
S teiner had already presented his
insights on the Apocalypse to
various audiences, but in 1924 he
presented a completely new per-
spective. This time, his comments
were in response to requests from
priests of the Christian Community,
the movement for religious renewal,
which itself had taken form on the
basis of Steiner’s insights.
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The Four Seasons
and the Archangels
Experience of the Course of the Year
in Four Cosmic Imaginations
Rudolf Steiner
5 lectures, Dornach, Oct. 5–13, 1923
(CWs 223, 229)
T hese five profound lectures look at
the cosmic forces behind the four
great festivals of the year, provid-
ing a wealth of material for fruit-
ful thought and meditation. Steiner
presents great imaginative pictures
that unite the heavens and the Earth
through a portrayal of the activities
of the archangels Michael, Gabriel,
Raphael, and Uriel.
In the course of the lectures, Rudolf
Steiner offers spiritual insight into
subjects that include the alchemical
processes of sulfur, mercury, and salt
in the cosmos; the realms of human-
kind and plants; spiritual “combus-
tion” processes; crystals; clouds and
meteors; the movements of elemental
beings in nature; and the conflicting
efforts of Lucifer and Ahriman—
the two great adversaries—to divert
Earth from its true purpose.
Includes five color plates of Rudolf
Steiner’s blackboard drawings from
the lectures.
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The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness Mani & Service
Rudolf Steiner Classics from the
14 lectures, Dornach Sept.–Oct. 1917 “Journal for Anthroposophy”
(CW 177) Robert Sardello, editor
S
teiner reveals the spiritual roots Series Editor, Robert McDermott
of the crises of our times and the
means by which we can overcome S
teiner was deeply aware and
inwardly present to the real-
them. Since 1879, Steiner tells us ity of the spiritual tradition that
that “backward” angels, or “spirits inspires active service. The indi-
of darkness”—who were forced out vidual known as Mani, a third-cen-
of the heavens and made their abode tury Persian mystic, and the spiri-
on Earth following their defeat in a tual streams that flowed from his
forty-year battle with the Archangel teachings—the Cathars, Templars,
Michael—have influenced human and others—had the special pur-
minds. It is now possible to awaken pose of “spiritualizing service,” in
more consciously to the truth of that the spiritual worlds become the
these changes and inwardly counter conscious wholeness through which
the fallen spirits’ influences. We can we help others. Without the capac-
come to realize that specific spiritual ity to comprehend the nature of this
causes lie behind earthly events in wholeness and how to develop it,
our rapidly changing times. all of our attempts to serve can fall
In these fourteen lectures, fol- into mere functionality.
lowing four years of war in Europe, The articles in this volume (pre-
Steiner speaks on the complex spiri- viously published in the Journal of
tual forces behind the World War I, Anthroposophy) present a picture of
humanity’s attempts to build theo- Manicheism, which Steiner held in
retically perfect social orders, and high esteem. The authors discuss the
the many divisions and disruptions long-forgotten cosmology and prac-
that have continued into our time. tices of Mani, which hold important
Humanity in general was asleep to seeds for the future; the inner capaci-
the fact that fallen spirits, cast from ties inspired by Manicheism that
the spiritual worlds, had become relate to serving others; caring for
intensely active on Earth. This mani- the wounded soul; being able to help
fested mainly in human thinking and others in the most selfless ways; and
perception of the surrounding world. working through the heart.
However, the defeat and fall of these Mani & Service presents these arti-
spirits also ensured that a science of cles together for the first time.
the spirit would always be available
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Anthroposophy
A Concise Introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s
Spiritual Philosophy
Henk van Oort
P eople today recognize Rudolf
Steiner’s work largely because
of initiatives such as the worldwide
Waldorf school movement, biody-
namic agriculture, and anthropo-
sophic medicine. Nevertheless, the
comprehensive spiritual philosophy
behind these movements is not so
well known. In this concise presen-
tation, based on years of teaching
introductory courses on the sub-
ject, van Oort presents an overview
of key aspects of Steiner’s thought.
He deals with concepts such as
body, soul, and spirit; the relation-
ship between humankind and the
animal kingdom; and the evolution
of consciousness, a topic that opens
panoramic vistas of human develop-
ment in the form of successive cul-
tural periods extending over thou-
sands of years.
Henk van Oort has taught
for forty years in primary
and secondary education,
including class teaching in
a Waldorf school, teach-
ing English, and leading educational
courses and seminars for teachers
and parents. His interest in litera-
ture and poetry led to appearances
at storytelling and poetry seminars,
and his introductory courses to
Anthroposophy have been highly
successful. He is based in the Neth-
erlands.
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Relating to Rudolf Steiner
And the Mystery of the Laying of the
Foundation Stone
Sergei O. Prokofieff
P rokofieff writes that the future
of both the Anthroposophical
Society and movement depends on
people realizing a true spiritual con-
nection with Rudolf Steiner as the
founder of Anthroposophy. He elab-
orates the mysteries surrounding the
Society’s spiritual Foundation Stone
and the 1923 Christmas Meeting.
That event, he asserts, ensured that
a personal relationship with Steiner
would not remain abstract or intel-
lectual, but become a true inner act.
Relating to Rudolf Steiner also
includes an essay on the “problem” of
digitally publishing Steiner’s esoteric
texts and the esoteric background of
the internet and electronic media.
In response to readers’ questions
about how to counteract the harm-
ful consequences of these develop-
ments, Prokofieff has expanded and
developed his original essay on this
subject.
Sergei O. Prokofieff
was born in Moscow in
1954. After the fall of
Communism, he became a
cofounder of the Anthropo-
sophical Society in Russia. At Easter
2001, he became a member of the
Executive Council of the General
Anthroposophical Society at the
Goetheanum.
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Avai l a b le Agai n
In the Belly of the Beast
Holding Your Own in Mass Culture
Sevak Edward Gulbekian
T he Beast. We all know it. We’re sur-
rounded by it. Mass culture; con-
sumerism; materialism; the endless
quest for wealth, goods, and celeb-
rity; a continuous scroll of names
and events. The Princess Diana
saga, gangsta rap, Beavis and Butt-
head, violence in the movies and TV,
thinking machines and mechanized
humans, exaggerated nationalism,
sports rage, the domination of art
by commerce. Should we jump head-
long into popular culture or retreat
from it into meditation? There is
another way.
Sevak Gulbekian offers a middle
approach: holding our ground in the
midst of it all. He shows how to take
one’s spiritual focus right into the
belly of popular culture, to really get
within its skin and work within the
Beast itself and comprehend it. It all
has meaning for us, even the seem-
ingly destructive and evil aspects.
It can be interpreted and changed
inwardly in relation to the deep,
underlying currents and trends in
human evolution and spirituality.
Sevak Gulbekian is chief
editor of Clairview Books,
Temple Lodge Publishing,
and Rudolf Steiner Press.
He lives in Sussex, Eng-
land.
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Touching the Horizon Did Jesus Come to Britain?

A Woman’s Pilgrimage across Europe An Investigation into the Traditions
to the Castle by the Golden City that Christ Visited Cornwall and Somerset
K arin Jarman Glyn Lewis

A s a child, Karin Jarman had an urge to travel—the

very word seeming to have an enchanting effect. This,
along with a deep connection to fairy tales, inspired her
“And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England’s
mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God on
England’s pleasant pastures seen?” —William Blake
to embark on her own magical journey to discover a mys-
terious castle by a far-off Golden City.
Entertaining many doubts, she eventually set aside work
T he many traditions and legends of Jesus’ travels to Britain
are deeply impressed into English culture, owing espe-
cially to famous allusion by William Blake. These tales
and family and began a pilgrimage to the fourteenth-cen-
tell that, while still a boy, Jesus accompanied his uncle,
tury Gothic castle of Karlstein near Prague. Unlike many
Joseph of Arimathea—an importer/exporter of metals—
modern-day pilgrims, however, she made the entire jour-
on expeditions to Cornwall to engage in the tin trade.
ney on foot while gratefully accepting the hospitality of
Later, it is said that Jesus made additional trips to visit
strangers. Her purpose was not feats of endurance or ath-
the location of the Druid school of learning, Glastonbury.
letic prowess; rather, she was trying to create a mood of
Though charming and romantic, do such stories have any
true pilgrimage—to encounter the sacred through outer
historical foundation?
travels and inner transformation. Her eventful travels
Using the work of fellow researchers as his starting
covered more than 1,200 miles, taking around twenty-
point, Lewis studies the locations that Jesus supposedly
two weeks, during which time she stayed with more than
visited—from Cornwall to Somerset—producing striking
a hundred hosts. Having confronted many issues of her
evidence combined with his fine photography, along with
biography, she returned home a changed person with
useful maps. Lewis’s combines original research with
fresh resolve and initiative.
broad and insightful analysis of the existing material,
Touching the Horizon is Karin Jarman’s remarkable
making a convincing case for Jesus indeed having walked
story, from her first inklings that such a journey might
“upon England’s mountains green.”
be possible, to the arrival at the beautiful fairy-tale castle
of Karlstein. She also describes the aftermath of her pil- Glyn Lewis, born in the UK, works as a pho-
grimage and its effects on her and her family. This is a tographic essayist, beginning in Hong Kong,
rare and gripping narrative of possibility, realization and where he recorded the plight of people living
metamorphosis. on the streets and in crowded public lodging;
Karin Jarman, born in Baden-Baden, in the UK, producing photographic essays
studied Waldorf education at the Goethea- on the Ministry of Agricultural Chaplains to
num. She moved to Great Britain, where she the farming community; on the work of Park Attwood
worked in a Camphill center for adults with Clinic, and the role of various therapies in aiding healing
special needs and later studied art therapy. processes; and on the religious order of the Poor Clares.
She works as an art therapist at St. Luke’s His photographic essay, “The Gospel, Told in Photo-
Medical Center in Stroud and helped establish the Hiber- graphs and Words,” has been exhibited in the cathedrals
nia College of Art Therapy. Karin also facilitates spiritual of Wells, Exeter, and Chichester.
support groups for people with chronic health issues and ISBN: 9781905570157
life crises. Paperback
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Secrets of the Stations of
the Cross and the Grail Blood
The Mystery of Transformation
Judith Halle,
von
Tranlated by Matthew Barton
A fter she received the stigmata in
2004, Judith von Halle began
to experience the events at the time
of Christ. These continuing experi-
ences are not visionary or clairvoy-
ant, but actual, sensory participa-
tion in those events. To complement
this means of witnessing Christ’s life,
von Halle applies a spiritual-scien-
tific mode of observation: crossing
the spiritual threshold while fully
conscious. Combining the results,
she describes secrets connected to
events of Christ’s Passion.
Von Halle discusses the Mystery
of Golgotha in relation to the Res-
urrection Body; the Mystery of the
Spear Wound in Christ’s side and
the Grail Blood; and how Christ’s
Seven Words on the Cross relate to
the Stations of the Cross.
Judith von Halle was born in
Berlin and attended school in Ger-
many and the U.S. She encountered
Anthroposophy and began working
as a staff member at Rudolf Steiner
House in Berlin, where she also lec-
tured, while maintaining an archi-
tectural practice. She is also the
author of And If He Had Not Been
Raised... and The Lord’s Prayer.
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Thinkers, Saints, Heretics
Spiritual Paths of the Middle Ages
Virginia Sease &
M anfred Schmidt-Brabant
T
he history of Europe was deter-
mined largely by the thinking
of people during the Middle Ages,
which has endured to be believed
and fought over. This emerges today
in individual consciousness as well
as in the fabric of our communities.
To help us understand this criti-
cal period, the coauthors of Paths
of the Christian Mysteries and The
New Mysteries embark on a broad
historical survey, both exoteric and
esoteric, of the culture and history
of the Middle Ages. On this jour-
ney, we visit King Arthur and the
Celtic mysteries; Francis of Assisi,
the Franciscans and the School of
Chartres; Thomas Aquinas, Aver-
roes, and much more.
Virginia Sease has been a mem-
ber of the Executive Council of the
Goetheanum since 1984. She directs
the English language Anthropo-
sophical Studies Program at the
Goetheanum.
Manfred Schmidt-Brabant was
a member of the Executive Council
of the General Anthroposophical
Society and served as Chair of the
Council from 1984 until his death in
2001.
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Living on Purpose
Meaning, Intention, and Value
Graham Dunstan M artin
T
he view of most contemporary
thinkers is that there is no real
purpose or value in the universe or
in nature. Following on from the
success of his book Does It Matter?
Graham Martin sets out to discredit
that viewpoint.
Living On Purpose addresses
several large issues, including the
problem of evil, the mystery of the
afterlife, and evidence for a spiritual
dimension to human experience.
Ultimately, the author insists that
our human intuitions offer genuine
hope of a moral and rational order
in the universe.
This fascinating and important
book is for all those who want to
question the modern-day ruling phi-
losophy.
Graham Dunstan Martin was
born in Leeds, England, in 1932. He
taught French and English in schools
for several years before lecturing in
French poetry, literature, and philos-
ophy at the University of Edinburgh
from 1965 to 2000. He is the author
of many books, including Shadows
in the Cave: Mapping the Conscious
Universe, two novels for children,
four fantasy novels for adults, trans-
lations of French poetry, and three
works of literary criticism.
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Colour From Neurons to Notions Peter Russell is the author of sev-

A Textbook for Anthroposophical Brains, Mind, and Meaning eral books, including From Science
Painting Groups Chris Nunn to God: A Physicist’s Journey into
the Mystery of Consciousness (2003)
Liane Collot d’Herbois
C hris Nunn builds a picture of our and Waking up in Time: Finding

C olor is both a constant and minds that is especially suited to Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating
dynamic force in our world. the twenty-first century. His picture Change (1998). He lives in London
Liane Collot D’Herbois was a pio- is developing rapidly and in ways and California.
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her remarkable ideas: Colour, parts for our sense of beauty. In the final
one (1979) and two (1981). Preferring chapters, Nunn extends his ideas to The Hidden Qualities of Water
to write in “pictures” rather than cover near-death experiences (NDE), Wolfram Schwenk, editor
“chapters,” Collot D’Herbois explains mysticism, and related topics.
the principles behind her work and Chris Nunn is associate editor of
demonstrates how each color has its the Journal of Consciousness Stud-
T heodor Schwenk, the acclaimed
author of Sensitive Chaos, devel-
oped the “drop picture method” to
own unique movement and inherent ies. He has written numerous papers, analyze water quality in the most
quality. articles and reviews. His books holistic way. This collection of
Liane Collot d’Herbois was born include Awareness: What It Is and articles from the Institute of Flow
in Cornwall, England What It Does (1996) and De La Sciences, which he founded, provides
in 1907. After studying Mettrie’s Ghost: The Story of Deci- detailed information on how the
painting in Birming- sions (2005). drop picture method works and how
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she developed a unique approach to The Awakening Earth in a New Century
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Reading the Face
Understanding a Person’s
Character through Physiognomy
A Spiritual-Scientific Study
Norbert Glas
I n Reading the Face, the first trans-
lation into English of his seminal
work, Glas begins by defining the
three parts of the human face and
explaining the importance of their
relative proportions. A face that is
more pronounced in any of these
areas tends to indicate certain per-
sonality traits and specific physio-
logical characteristics. People with a
strong mouth and chin, for example,
tend to have a strong will and an
active, driven, and assertive nature.
With the help of many photos and
drawings, Glas presents the physiog-
nomy of three basic types and anal-
yses the specifics of the head, fore-
head, ears, eyes, mouth, and nose.
Reading the Face will be valuable
to doctors, teachers, and anyone
who wants to better understand,
accept, and love others.
Norberet Glas, m.d. (1897–1986),
was born in Austria. After receiving
his medical degree at the Faculty of
Medicine in Vienna, he practiced
medicine in Austria and later in
England. He wrote numerous books,
which have been published in several
languages.
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The Death of Merlin
Arthurian Myth and Alchemy
Walter Johannes Stein
T he story of King Arthur and the
Grail still holds a remarkable fas-
cination for many people. In this
classic work, Walter Johannes Stein
traces its origins in early Christianity
and classical and Nordic mythol-
ogy, and follows its development in
medieval and modern times. In par-
ticular, Stein explores the parallels
between the quest for the Grail and
the medieval alchemists search for
the Philosopher’s Stone.
The Death of Merlin collects
Stein’s essays and lectures from the
1920s and 1930s. The first section
contains Stein’s memoirs, which pro-
vide context for his research within
the culture of the era.
Dr. Walter Johannes Stein, born
in 1891, was a personal student of
Rudolf Steiner. In 1919, Steiner asked
him to become a faculty member at
the Waldorf school in Stuttgart as a
teacher of German Literature and
History, even though his education
was in philosophy, mathematics,
and physics. Through Stein’s efforts
to master this new material, he was
able to bring a fresh approach to the
epic of Parzival. Through the use of
unconventional research methods
and concepts of reincarnation and
karma, he developed revolutionary
new insights into the Grail mystery.
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The Healing Power of Prayer
Hans-Werner Schroeder
Tranlated by Jon Madsen
T here will always be times in life—
during bereavement, a sudden job
loss, or other troubling periods—
when we must make an effort to
find inner balance and peace. Often,
we may feel drawn to the support
of something greater than ourselves.
Even physicians today are beginning
to recognize the healing power of
prayer, the most visible of whom are
Larry Dossey and Dean Ornish.
In The Healing Power of Prayer,
Hans-Werner Schroeder looks at
various aspects of prayer and shows
how we can call upon our frequently
unrecognized and untapped inner
powers for help. He offers practi-
cal advice on how to integrate the
practice of prayer into our lives and
ways to maintain inner harmony
and peace.
Hans-Werner Schroeder is a
priest of the Christian Community.
He teaches at the seminary in Stutt-
gart and is also the author of The
Cosmic Christ, Necessary Evil, and
The Trinity (all from Floris Books).
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Cancer Recovery Guide
15 Alternative and Complementary
Strategies for Restoring Health
Jonathan Chamberlain
C hamberlain watched his wife
suffer and eventually die—from
both her cancer and the conventional
treatments she had undergone. His
experience led to a search for other
methods of treating cancer. What he
discovered stunned him. Dozens of
treatments exist, many offering very
good chances of recovery.
In Cancer Recovery Guide, Cham-
berlain presents fifteen simple and
practical strategies, grouped into
three families: those that relate to
the mind and the emotions; those
that address the health of the whole
body; and those that focus on attack-
ing cancerous tumors directly.
The personal stories cited in Can-
cer Recovery Guide testify to the
many therapeutic possibilities.
Jonathan Chamberlain
grew up in Ireland and
Hong Kong, where he lived
and worked for many years
as a teacher and writer. His
books include Fighting Cancer: A
Survial Guide and King Hui: The
Man Who Owned All the Opium in
Hong Kong. His website on cancer-
related issues is at www.fightingcan-
cer.com. Jonathan is the founder of
two charities: The Hong Kong Down
Syndrome Association and Mental
Handicap Network China.
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Healing the Skin
Holistic Approaches to
Treating Skin Conditions
A Practical Guide Based on
Anthroposophic Medicine
Lueder Jachens, md
D
r. Jachens, a dermatologist, aller-
gist, and physician, offers wise
advice in his expertly written and
helpful “owner’s handbook.” He
offers his insights into individual
conditions, their causes, and how to
treat them. He also presents a holis-
tic understanding of the skin itself—
the largest human organ—to help us
develop better health and harmony
in the longer term.
Jachens begins with an anatomy
of the skin and its relationship to
our physical and spiritual existence.
He goes on to study specific condi-
tions and treatments, including pso-
riasis, dermatitis, acne, boils, hayfe-
ver, alopecia (hair loss), melanoma,
abscesses, impetigo, fungal infec-
tions, herpes, scabies, head lice, sun-
burn, and much more.
Includes eight pages of color plates.
Lueder Jachens, md, participated
in anthroposophic medical student
groups while studying medicine in
Göttingen and Kiel, Germany. He
specialized in dermatology and aller-
gology before working in medical
departments at an anthroposophi-
cally oriented hospital. He has a pri-
vate practice as a skin specialist in
Germany and developed the Christo-
phorus Medical Center.
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Infertility to Fertility
The Journey of the Psyche
Dr. Patricia Sherwood
H ere is an inspiring case study of
a client’s psycho-spiritual jour-
ney through the maze of infertility to
explore the connection between her
bodily experiences of infertility and
underlying emotional experiences.
The reader will journey with the cli-
ent into her ovaries and womb to
uncover the remarkable experiences
that are carried in the bodily organs
and contribute to infertility.
Based on the holistic anthropo-
sophic model, Infertility to Fertility
provides a deeply profound path of
healing, incorporating the artistic
therapies of sound, color, movement,
gesture, and clay, to transform the
life-destructive energetic patterns
into life-renewing and life-flourish-
ing patterns.
Infertility to Fertility is an impor-
tant resource for anyone interested
in the body-mind connections that
influence physical health. It is for art
therapists, counselors, and clients
who wish to be inspired by a quest to
create wholeness and wellbeing.
Patricia Sherwood, ph.d., has
trained counsellors for community,
private and government organiza-
tions for over a decade. She has
extensive experience in tertiary edu-
cation, having lectured for twenty-
five years in universities in the areas
of psychology, counselling, social sci-
ences, cultural studies, youth work,
and human services.
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The Ascent of Man
Eleanor C. Merry
T he Ascent of Man offers an over-
view of the spiritual development
of humankind. Merry applies her
wide-ranging knowledge of esoteric
wisdom to assert that the world’s
past ages must be reviewed before
the significance of the our own age
can be understood.
Her grand survey covers the
major ancient civilizations, reli-
gions and thinkers, including India,
Persia and Zarathurstra, Egypt,
Greece, Hibernia, Krishna and
Buddha, Heraclitus and Aristotle,
Melchisedek, and Zion and Gnosis.
She then turns to the Middle Ages
and to the Renaissance before fin-
ishing with twentieth-century phi-
losophy and materialism.
Eleanor C. Merry (1873–1956)
was a poet, artist, musician and
anthroposophist with a strong
Celtic impulse and a life-long
interest in esoteric wisdom. Born
in Eaton, England, she studied in
Vienna and met Rudolf Steiner in
1922 after becoming interested
in his teachings. She went on to
organize Summer Schools at which
Steiner gave important lectures,
and she was secretary for the World
Conference on Spiritual Science in
London in 1928.
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Easter
The Legends and the Facts
Eleanor C. Merry
H
ere is a perfect companion to
The Ascent of Man. In this
volume, Eleanor Merry applies her
remarkably wide-ranging knowl-
edge of world religion and mythol-
ogy to the Easter story. She focuses
on three legends: that of The Holy
Grail and Parzival; an old Irish leg-
end, and the legend of Faust.
With the Sun, the Moon, and
Nature forming a continuous back-
ground to her ideas, Merry draws
out the common themes that lead,
ultimately, to the Christian Easter
story.
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The Flaming Door
The Mission of the Celtic Folk-Soul
Eleanor C. Merry
T
he author discusses the time before
Christ and includes studies of the
Bards, the Cauldron of Ceridwen,
and Hu the Mighty. Part two dis-
cusses the time since Christ, which
includes the Legends of Odrum, St.
Columba, and the Legends of the
Rose and the Lily.
This is must reading for anyone
interested in Celtic myths and Chris-
tianity.
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Now in P ap e r b a c k
The Childhood of Jesus
The Unknown Years
Emil Bock
G
ospel accounts of the birth
and childhood of Jesus have
puzzling discrepancies and contra-
dictions that have, in general, been
ignored by biblical scholars. In par-
ticular, Matthew and Luke give very
different versions of Jesus’ birth and
the events that follow.
A long obscured tradition has held
that there were two families and two
Jesus children—one from the kingly
line of Solomon and the other from
the priestly line of Nathan—whose
destinies were to join and be ful-
filled through the Divine plane. Emil
Bock shows how the pattern and
structure of the four Gospels sup-
port the stories of two boys called
Jesus, living side by side in Nazareth
until the age of twelve, and right up
to the dramatic day of their visit to
the temple in Jerusalem.
The author also recreates the years
between this time and Jesus’ baptism
in the river Jordan, demonstrating a
strong Essene influence on his spiri-
tual development.
The Childhood of Jesus is for any-
one who has ever been puzzled by
the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ birth.
See more books by Emil Bock on
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A Farm
Paintings from a Bygone Age
Carl L arsson
C
arl Larsson is one of Sweden’s
best-loved artists. His stunning
watercolors of his home and family
from the end of the nineteenth cen-
tury are acclaimed as one of the rich-
est records of life at that time.
The paintings in this book all depict
the farm of Spadarvet in Sundborn,
in west Sweden, which Carl Larsson
bought in 1897. The accompanying
text provides a fascinating insight
into farm life and into Carl’s paint-
ing techniques.
Carl Larsson (1853–1919) was
born into a poor family in Stock-
holm, Sweden. He was accepted at
the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts
at the age of thirteen and spent sev-
eral years working as a newspaper
and magazine illustrator. He moved
to Paris, where, as a penniless art-
ist, he met his wife Karin, also an
artist. In 1888, they moved back to
Sundborn in Sweden. Carl Larsson is
best known for his lovely watercolor
paintings of his home and family
which were popularized through a
series of books.
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Available Again The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson
Vladimir Soloviev An Ancient Norwegian Folksong
Russian Mystic of the Holy Nights
Paul M. Allen Janet Jordan,
illustrator
V
ladimir Soloviev (1853–1900), Preface by Jonathan Stedall
one of the greatest philosophers Introduction by Andrew Welburn
T
of the nineteenth century, was the his legendary folk song came to
founder of a tradition of Russian light in 1850, when a member of
spirituality that brought together the clergy named Landstad first
philosophy, mysticism, and theology heard it in a lonely valley of Telemark,
with a powerful social message. A Norway. The epic narrative—whose
Platonist and a gnostic visionary, as origin is lost to time—tells of a young
well as a close friend of Dostoevsky, man who slept for twelve nights dur-
Solovyov was also a prophet who ing the deep winter days and nights.
was granted three visions of Sophia, When he finally awoke, he shared the
Divine Wisdom. A poet and a pro- wondrous sights he had seen.
foundly Christian metaphysicist, his This edition of The Dream Song of
works include The Justification of the Olaf Åsteson is illuminated by Janet
Good; War, Progress, and the End of Jordan’s striking paintings, which
History; and The Meaning of Love. give new life to this timeless legend
This unique, timely book—the and help modern readers connect
first full-length portrait of Soloviev more intimately with its profound
as a mystic to appear in English—is meaning.
the rich fruit of Dr. Allen’s lifelong Contains ten color illustrations.
interest in the cultural and spiritual Janet Jordan is a painter and print-
achievements, the mysticism, and the maker and spends much of her time
esoteric work of the Russian people creating original and eye-catching
during Tsarist times leading up to etchings. Her work ranges from
the twentieth century. illustrative to abstract, and her inspi-
Paul Marshall Allen was an rations come from many sources,
authority on the life and work of including poetry and the natural
Rudolf Steiner and edited many of world. She obtained a B.A. in Fine
his books as well as A Christian Art at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in
Rosenkreutz Anthology. With his 1975. She has an interest in textile art
wife Joan deRis Allen, he coauthored and wrote her thesis on tapestry. Ms.
Fingal’s Cave, the Poems of Ossian, Jordan lives and works in Somerset,
and Celtic Christianity; Francis of England
Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures;
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N e w E d i t i o n
An Esoteric Cosmology
Evolution, Christ, and Modern Spirituality
Rudolf Steiner
Foreword by Edouard Schuré
Preface by Bernard Garber
I n his foreword, Edouard Schuré
writes, “These priceless lectures
mark a significant phase of Rudolf
Steiner’s thought—that of the spon-
taneous burst of his genius and its
first crystallization.” Here, Steiner
began a process of distinguishing
his Christ-centered spiritual sci-
ence from the Eastern orientation of
Theosophy, with which he was still
associated at the time. He carefully
connected the essence of spiritual
science to the role of the Christ in
human evolution, as well as to the
Rosicrucian and Christian mystery
traditions, the primary carriers
of the previously hidden, esoteric
Christian stream. To accomplish
this, Steiner presented the roots of
Christianity in the ancient mysteries
and in cosmic evolution itself.
The miracle of these lectures may
be that Steiner was able to condense
and outline such a grand cosmology
into these eighteen lectures, from
which Schuré was able to capture
their essence in his relatively brief
notes. A few years later, Steiner
expanded the content of these lec-
tures and presented it in An Outline
of Esoteric Science.
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Avai l a b le Agai n Avai
Nutrition
A Holistic Approach
Rudolf Hauschka
T oday’s understanding of nutri-
tion is based largely on physical,
chemical considerations and analy-
sis. Dr. Hauschka, however, views
matter—especially food—as having
a spiritual aspect. From this holistic
perspective he presents a new, prac-
tical approach to nutrition.
In an era of mass food produc-
tion, Hauschka considers one of
the most neglected aspects of nutri-
tion: the quality of food. He dis-
cusses aspects of food that can be
measured by conventional scientific
means, as well as aspects that defy
quantification by the usual methods.
He relates these findings to a histori-
cal survey of food cultivation, prep-
aration, and preservation, as well as
to the question of today’s chemically
treated foods.
In the present climate of food
scares and concerns—BSE, foot
and mouth disease, genetic modifi-
cation, chemical poisoning, etc.—
Hauschka’s book takes on a new
relevance, adding a significant con-
tribution to the current debate. Also
included are concise dietary sugges-
tions by Dr Margarethe Hauschka
for healthy as well as sick people.
This book is a companion volume
to the author’s other work, The
Nature of Substance, which was
reprinted simultaneously.
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l a b le Agai n
The Nature of Substance
Spirit and Matter
Dr. Rudolf Hauschka
D r. Hauschka shows that open-
minded study, based on quali-
tative observation and quantitative
research, can overcome this now
standardized view. Without deny-
ing the laws of matter, he shows the
limitations of a science restricted by
them, and points to new research
that indicates the primal nature of
spirit. The author avoids technical
terms and academic style in favor of
vivid descriptions and lively discus-
sions. His fascinating study takes
in many substances, with chapters
on plants, animals, oils, proteins,
carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals,
metals, carbon, oxygen, poisons,
high dilutions, and much more.
Rudolf Hauschka (1891–1969),
an Austrian chemist, began experi-
menting with various methods of
preparing botanical extracts based
on rhythmical exposure to elemen-
tal polarities and the homeopathic
principle of potentization. In 1929,
he achieved success in creating a
water-based extract of rose petals
that remained stable without the
use of alcohol or preservatives. Dr.
Hauschka was able to open the first
WALA laboratory in Germany in
1935. Today WALA, a manufac-
turer of anthroposophic medicines
and skin-care products, is based on
Hauschka’s discoveries.
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 Th e C o ll e c t e d W o r k s o f R u d o l f S t e i n e r

The Collected Works

of Rudolf Steiner

N e w E d i t i o n N e w E d i t i o n Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909

From the History and Contents The Spiritual Hierarchies and From the Esoteric School
of the First Section of the the Physical World Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Esoteric School 1904-1914 Zodiac, Planets & Cosmos Translated by James H. Hindes
Letters, Documents, and Lectures Rudolf Steiner 1904–1909 (CW 266/1)
Edited by Hella Wiesberger
T
Introduction by Christopher Bamford o read this book is to be part of
Translated by John Wood Translated by René M. Querido Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric school,
(CW 264) 10 lectures, 1909 (CW 110) to experience the growth and devel-
opment of Anthroposophy from
T his volume collects important
texts, documents, and talks for
those interested in exploring the
In these remarkable lectures, Steiner
reestablishes the human being as a
within.
First, and most important, is prac-
participant in an evolving, dynamic
development of Rudolf Steiner’s tice. Most of us waste much time and
universe of living spiritual beings:
teaching and for obtaining a glimpse energy on thoughts and feelings that
a living universe, whole and divine.
into the advice and admonitions he go nowhere. Meditation, however,
He does so in concrete images, capa-
offered to his earliest students. The begins self-gathering. By controlling
ble of being grasped by human con-
reader gains a rare view of the birth thoughts, one begins to form the
sciousness as if from within.
of Anthroposophy out of late nine- “mental” (ether) body. By ordering
How is this possible? Implicit in
teenth-century Theosophy, as well memories, one works on the astral
Rudolf Steiner’s view is the fact
as a clear picture of why Steiner body. “We must make our life into a
that, essentially, the universe con-
could no longer work within the school for learning.” Humility is the
sists of consciousness. Everything
theosophical framework. key; when the world becomes our
else is illusion. Hence, to under-
Includes documentation of the teacher, we must become humble.
stand the evolution of the cosmos
events leading to the split between Throughout the lessons, Steiner
and humanity in any terms other
the Theosophical Society and the moves between the “Christian-
than consciousness is also an illu-
German Esoteric School; exercises Gnostic” path and the Theosophical
sion. Whenever we are dealing with
and advice from Steiner to his eso- framework of the “Masters.” Even-
grand cosmic facts, we are dealing
teric students; Steiner’s early lectures tually, the work moves away from
with states of consciousness. Stein-
and teachings on the “Masters” and Blavatsky’s template toward a deeper,
er’s spiritual science is a science
their relationship to human evolu- more universal contemporary focus.
of states of consciousness and the
tion; introductory remarks by the Steiner reveals that, behind H. P.
beings who embody them. Indeed,
book’s original editor, Hella Wies- Blavatsky lies the wisdom of Atlan-
any science—physics, chemistry,
berger; a new introduction by Chris- tis, which must again come to life.
botany, psychology—is a science of
topher Bamford; extensive notes; Here, Christian Rosencreutz, the
beings. And the sensory perception,
bibliography; and an index. Rosicrucians, and the “old” philos-
or physical trace, is simply the outer
This volume is essential for every- ophers, or alchemists, gain impor-
vestment of the activity of beings in
one who wishes to understand tance. It was their purpose to bring
various states of consciousness.
Anthroposophy and the development this wisdom, now “enchristed,” to
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 Th e C o ll e c t e d
Approaching the
Mystery of Golgotha
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Translated by Michael Miller
10 lectures, various cities, 1913–1914
(CW 152)
T he year 1913 was a turning
point for Rudolf Steiner and
Anthroposophy. In February, after
more than a year of gestation,
the first General Meeting of the
Anthroposophical Society took
place. In September, the Foundation
Stone for the Goetheanum was
laid in Dornach. The ground for
Anthroposophy as we know it today
was established.
In these lectures, Steiner estab-
lishes a relationship to Christ and
the spiritual worlds in keeping with
the spirit of the times, the Archan-
gel Michael. He Steiner reveals the
need for a true Michaelic school and
that the fruit of spiritual science are
earthly representatives of Michael.
Christ and Michael are the guid-
ing lights of this collection, which
itself represents a profound act of
Christ-Michael service. He returns
repeatedly to the sacrificial acts of
Christ—creative, sustaining, and
enabling our humanity—before,
during, and after Golgotha.
The teaching at the heart of this
volume, as it is at the heart of the
Christ, is selflessness: the overcom-
ing of egotism and the primacy of
the other.
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W o r k s o f R u d o l f
“Freemasonry” and Ritual Work
The Misraim Service
Texts and Documents from the Cognitive-
Ritual Section of the Esoteric School,
1905–1919
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Translated by Paul Emberson
(CW 265)
A
longside the Esoteric Section,
Steiner created the “Cognitive
Ritual Section” connected to
Masonic tradition, but independent
and anthroposophically inspired.
This volume contains the rituals,
lectures, meditations, and other
instructions Steiner gave. As he
began to establish his esoteric mis-
sion, Steiner chose to connect his
spiritual goals and efforts with the
wisdom streams that had prepared
the ground for his task. For the sake
of conscience, gratitude, and conti-
nuity, he chose to acknowledge those
who preceded him and to relate him-
self to them in a free, creative, con-
scious, and independent way.
Steiner understood that ritual
is central, even necessary, as the
essence of embodied spiritual work.
Though he never “joined” the
Masons, based on his obvious, ini-
tiatory status , Steiner was granted
a patent to direct his own “order”
under the name Mystica Aeterna—
later the “Cognitive-Ritual Section”
of the Esoteric School of the German
Section of the Theosophical Society.
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S t e i n e r
Autobiography
Chapters in the Course of My Life:
1861–1907
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Notes by Paul Marshall Allen
Written 1924–1925 (CW 28)
T his book offers a rare glimpse into
some of the most intimate aspects of
his inner life, personal relationships,
and significant events. Moreover,
this edition restores the original
format of seventy chapters as origi-
nally written for the Goetheanum
weekly newsletter. This is not sim-
ply a narrative of Steiner’s successes
and failures, but the story of a soul
possessed of a precise, probing sci-
entific mind and a natural clairvoy-
ant ability to see into the spiritual
world. Though naturally clairvoy-
ant, Steiner always recognized the
integrity and importance of mod-
ern scientific methods, and thus he
developed a modern discipline he
named Anthroposophy, or spiritual
science.
During the century that followed
the events recorded in this autobi-
ography, Rudolf Steiner’s insights
have touched and enriched numer-
ous areas of life in ways that con-
tinue to transform people’s lives in
the twenty-first century.
This illustrated, revised, and
updated edition was the first volume
in The Collected Works of Rudolf
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 Th e C o ll e c t e d W o r k s o f R u d o l f S t e i n e r

A Way of Self-Knowledge Rosicrucianism enewed The Sun Mystery & the

and The Threshold of the Spiritual World
Translated and Introduced by
Christopher Bamford
Written 1912 and 1913 (CW 16/17)
P art one, “A Way of Self-Knowledge,”
contains eight meditations that
take the reader on a journey through
The Unity of Art, Science & Religion Mystery of Death and
The Theosophical Congress of Whitsun Resurrection
1907 Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
Introduction by Christopher Bamford Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Translated by Marsha Post Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
13 lectures, various cities,
1907–1924 (CW 284)
12 lectures, various cities, March–June
1922 (CW 211)

T T
human experience. Steiner offers he Congress of the Federation hese lectures were given in 1922,
ways to imagine and understand of the European Sections of the midway between the end of World
the physical body, the elemental (or Theosophical Society was held in War I and Steiner’s death in 1925.
etheric) body, the elemental world, Munich at Pentecost 1907. It marked The first two lectures are a call to
the Guardian of the Threshold, the the emergence of Anthroposophy arms and a return to basics. Steiner
astral body, the I-body (or thought from Theosophy as Rudolf Steiner speaks existentially and phenomeno-
body), the nature of experience in introduced the Rosicrucian path of logically, building on descriptions
suprasensory worlds, and ways of thinking and the unification of art, of familiar experiences. He shows
perceiving previous earthly lives. science, and religion. how the three states of consciousness
Part two, “The Threshold of the Surrounding the performance of (waking, dreaming, and dreamless
Spiritual World,” contains sixteen Édouard Schuré’s Sacred Drama of sleep) have initiatory possibilities.
short chapters in which Steiner pro- Eleusis in the meeting hall, were red- Next, he addresses the evolution of
vides aphoristic thoughts on trusting draped walls with apocalyptic and consciousness in relation to the uni-
one’s thinking, cognition of the spiri- the planetary seals (reproduced in versal significance of the Christ event.
tual world, karma and reincarnation, color plates in the book). With this Through the resurrection, Christ
the astral body and luciferic beings, seminal event, a decisive element entered earthly evolution; as a result,
how to recognize suprasensory con- entered the spiritual stream of the we see the world differently. Ancient
sciousness, the true nature of love, day. humanity experienced “Not I but the
and more. Also, Steiner laid the foundation divine spirit around me,” whereas we
The books included in this volume of his idea for a building that, after can experience “Not I, but the Christ
represent Steiner’s most personal several transformations, culminated in me.” Thus we reach the heart of
statements about his own spiritual in the first Goetheanum in Dornach, this volume—esoteric Christianity.
path. He speaks directly from expe- Switzerland. He thus indicated the To Rudolf Steiner, the foremost
riences of cognitive research and possibility and spiritual need for purpose of being human is to over-
explorations. a new style of architecture and the come death by uniting with the
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 R u d o l f S t e i n e r ’ s F o u n da t i o n al W o r k s

Rudolf Steiner considered several of his written works fundamental

to the recovery of human dignity, freedom, and wisdom. These
foundational books contain the essence of his teachings.

How to Know Higher Worlds Intuitive Thinking as Theosophy

A Modern Path of Initiation
Translated by Christopher Bamford
Written 1904–1905 (CW 10)
T his is the classic account of the mod-
ern Western esoteric path of initia-
a Spiritual Path
A Philosophy of Freedom
Introduced by Gertrude Reif Hughes
Translated by Michael Lipson
Written 1894 (CW 4)
An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in
Human Life and in the Cosmos
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
Written 1904 (CW 9)
A
key work for anyone looking for

tion made public by Steiner in 1904.
He begins with the premise that “the
capacities by which we can under-
stand the higher worlds lie dormant
within each one of us.” Steiner care-
fully and precisely leads the reader
from the cultivation of the funda-
mental soul attitudes of reverence and
inner tranquility to the development
of inner life through the stages of
preparation, illumination, and initia-
tion. He provides practical exercises
of inner and outer observation and
moral development. By patiently and
persistently following his guidelines,
new “organs” of soul and spirit begin
to form, which reveal the contours of
the higher worlds thus far concealed
from us.
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O
f all Steiner’s works, this is the
one he believed would have the
longest life and the greatest spiri-
tual and cultural consequences. This
seminal work asserts that free spiri-
tual activity — the human ability to
think and act independently of physi-
cal nature — is the appropriate path
for people today who wish to gain
true knowledge of themselves and
the universe. This is not abstract phi-
losophy; it is a warm, heart-oriented
guide to the practice and experience
of “living thinking.” Readers will not
find abstract philosophy here, but a
step-by-step account of how a person
may come to experience living, intui-
tive thinking — “the conscious expe-
rience of a purely spiritual content.”
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a solid founda­tion in spiritual
reality. Steiner presents a compre­
hensive understanding of human
nature — from the physical body and
the soul to our central spirit being.
He also provides an extraordinary
overview of the laws of reincarnation
and karma and the various ways we
live within the three worlds of body,
soul, and spirit, describing the path
of knowledge through which each of
us can begin to understand the mar-
velously harmonious and complex
worlds of soul and spirit.
Theosophy is the work by Rudolf
Steiner that one should read first for
a real understanding of the truths
behind Anthroposophy.
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 R u d o l f S t e i n e r ’ s F o u n da t i o n al W o r k s

O ther E ditions of
F oundational W orks :
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
and Its Attainment
Trans. George Metaxa, revised by
Henry Monges &Lisa D. Monges
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An Outline of Esoteric Science Christianity as Mystical Fact Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger And the Mysteries of Antiquity How Is It Achieved?
Written 1910 (CW 13) Rudolf Steiner Trans. John Davy, & D. S. Osmond
ISBN: 9781855841437
T his masterwork of esotericism Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Translation, preface & notes by Paperback
places humankind at the very Rudolf Steiner Press
Andrew Welburn
heart of the vast, invisible processes $17.95
Afterword by Michael Debus
of cosmic evolution. When we use 224 pages
the term “natural science,” don’t Written 1902 (CW 8) The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity

D
we mean that we are dealing with uring the fall and winter of Trans. William Lindeman
human knowledge of nature? 1901–1902, Steiner gave a series ISBN: 9780880101561
In this essential work of spiritual Paperback
of lectures called “Christianity as SteinerBooks
science, we see how the creation and Mystical Fact” to members of the $29.95
evolution of humanity is embedded Theosophical Society. The lectures
in the heart of the vast, invisible The Philosophy of Freedom
were rewritten and issued as a book
web of interacting cosmic beings, The Basis for a Modern
later that year. They mark a water-
through whom the alchemical pro- shed in the development of Western World Conception
cesses of cosmic evolution continue Trans.Michael Wilson
esotericism. ISBN: 9781855840829
to unfold. Included are descriptions This is a foundational work—in Paperback
of the various bodies of the human Stiener’s own development, in that Rudolf Steiner Press
being, their relationship to sleep of Western esotericism, and for our $16.95
and death, and a detailed, practi- understanding of the Christ event. 264 pages
cal guide to methods and exercises, Readers will find the evolutionary Theosophy
including the “Rose Cross Medita- development from the ancient Mys- An Introduction to the Supersensible
tion,” through which we can attain teries through the great Greek phi- Knowledge of the World and the
initiation knowledge. losophers to the events portrayed in
Perhaps most remarkable and Destination of Man
the Gospels. Trans. A.P. Shepherd
revolutionary of all is the central Included are an infomative intro- ISBN: 9781855841314
function that Steiner allots to the duction and annotated notes by Paperback
Christ and his entrance into earthly Andrew Welburn and an afterword Rudolf Steiner Press
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The Fundamentals The Foundation Stone Meditation The Foundation Stone

of Anthroposophy A Key to the Christian Mysteries Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven
Sergei O. Prokofieff
The Esoteric Significance of Spiritual
Work in Anthroposophical Groups
Translated by Maria St. Goar
T
he author was present
when Steiner intro-

And the Future of the

Anthroposophical Society
Sergei O. Prokofieff
The author elaborates
the tasks of the Anthro-
posophical Society and
connects these with the
spiritual hierarchies, the
Michael movement, the
Grail mysteries, the work
of new Group Souls, and the Founda- sources of Anthroposophy, and
tion Stone Meditation. He shows that, even the Constitution of the General
esoterically, the General Anthropo- Anthroposophical Society.
sophical Society was created so that
human beings could learn to work
with the gods.
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The Foundation Stone Meditation
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Michael Wilson
3 English translations & the original
German (CW 260)
P
rokofieff’s research
embraces, among other
aspects, the relation-
ship of the “Foundation
Stone Meditation” to the
being Anthroposophia,
the spiritual hierarchies,
human karma, the Rosicrucian, has inspired generations of students
Michaelic and Grail streams, the of Anthroposophy.
Mystery of Golgotha, the two
Jesus children, the three spiritual
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The Foundation Stone /
The Life, Nature & Cultivation of
Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner
T
he first part contains
Steiner’s comments on
“The Foundation Stone
Meditation,” which is
duced the “Foundation
Stone Meditation” and,
for the next thirty years,
lived intensively with the
meditations. Gradually,
he made people aware of the seminal
forces in the meditation. His book
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At Home in the Universe
Exploring Our Suprasensory Nature
Rudolf Steiner
5 talks, The Hague Nov.13–18, 1923
(CW 231)
Introduction & Afterword
by Paul Margulies
T he key to being at home
in the universe is to
com­prehend the signifi-
cance of our individual
lives on Earth and after

“T he Foundation Stone we leave the physical

central in the medita-
Meditation” is cen- tive life of many students world. Steiner describes
tral to the inner life of of spiritual science. Part our journey after death and its conse­
many students of Rudolf two, “The Life, Nature, quences for our future. He shows
Steiner’s work. This bud- and Cultivation of Anthroposophy,” us how our char­acter and actions
get-priced, pocket version contains Steiner’s letters to mem- on Earth affect us after we die and
features three alternative translations bers of the society following the how those experiences shape our
(by George Adams, Pauline Wehrle Christmas Conference. They contain next physical life. Includes exercises
and Richard Seddon), along with the thoughts and guidelines regarding that help us explore our suprasensory
the Anthroposophical Society and its human nature, so that we can begin
original German verses.
members’ conduct in the world. to act more consciously by recogniz-
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The Archangel Michael
His Mission and Ours
Rudolf Steiner
Selected by Christopher Bamford
T his collection includes
early lectures about the
event of 1879, Michael
and Christ, Michael as
Archangel and Time Spirit,
and Michael and the fall
of the spirits of darkness.
Also includes “The Mission of the
Archangel Michael,” a selection from
the “Michael Letters,” and an extract
of Steiner’s last address.
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Approaches to Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner
2 lectures, Basel, Jan. & Oct. 1916
(CW 35)
A n excellent introduction to a gen-
uinely modern spiritual teaching
for Western humanity, using scien-
tific methods to investigate spiritual
realities by awakening higher percep-
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Anthroposophy in Everyday Life
Practical Training in Thought
Overcoming Nervousness
Facing Karma
The Four Temperaments
Rudolf Steiner
F our of Steiner’s most
practical and best-loved
lectures are collected in
this book.
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The Battle for the Soul Secrets of the Threshold
The Working Together of Three Rudolf Steiner
Great Leaders of Humanity 8 lectures, Munich, Aug. 24–31, 1913
Bernard Lievegoed (CW 147)
L ievegoed shares his
thoughts about three S teiner’s topics include
the fourth
tery play, “The Soul’s
mys-
spiri­tual streams in
human evolution led by Awakening”; Ahriman
Rudolf Steiner, Christian and Lucifer; the elemen-
Rosenkreutz, and Manu. tal world; the ascent
Bernard Lievegoed was a distin- from the elemental world
guished physician, educator, and to spirit; more.
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The Bridge Between Universal Introduction to
Spirituality and the Physical Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Constitution of Man Rudolf Steiner
Written 1891 (CW 3)
Rudolf Steiner
O
Translated by D.S. Osmond riginally pub-
3 Lectures, Dornach, December 17-19, lished with The
1920 (CW 202) Philosophy of Freedom
L ectures include “Soul-and-Spirit
in Man’s Physical Constitution”;
in a single volume, this
work is fundamental to
understanding that work (now pub-
“The Moral as the Source of World-
lished as Intuitive Thinking As a
Creative Power”; “The Path to
Spiritual Path).
Freedom and Love and Their
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Materialism and the
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Rudolf Steiner on His Book Task of Anthroposophy
The Philosophy of Freedom Rudolf Steiner
17 lectures, Dornach, Apr.–June 1921
Otto Palmer
(CW 204)
Translated by Marjorie Spock
P almer collects most of S teiner shows a way out of today’s
blind materialism and toward new
what Steiner had to say
about his most important
anthroposophic work.
spiritual perception and knowledge,
which is the only way that we will
find the Christ in our time.
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The Essential Steiner The Effects of Esoteric Development What is Anthroposophy?

Basic Writings of Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner, Sergei O. Prokofieff
Robert McDermott, editor Introduction by Christopher Bamford Translated by S. Blaxland de Lange

R
10 Lectures, the Hague; March 20–29,
P
obert McDermott rokofieff focuses on the
begins with an overview 1913 (CW 145); 1 lecture, Berlin
central Christological
of Steiner’s life and work. February 3, 1913
insights that make up the

B
Selections from Steiner’s eginning with ques- core of Rudolf Steiner’s
writings are presented in tions regarding the philosophy.
five chapters with intro- body’s experience of food ISBN: 1902636783
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Institute and as chair of the board inner work, up to direct perception What Is Anthroposophy?
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Steiner College. He was a member of discusses the role of human beings on Self-Knowledge
the council of the Anthroposophical in our evolution that takes place Rudolf Steiner
Society in America and is the found- between the forces of Lucifer and Introduction by Christopher Bamford
ing chair of the board of the Sophia Ahriman.
3 lectures, Dornach, July 20–22, 1923
Project, an anthroposophic home in ISBN: 9780880104203 (CW 225)
Oakland, California, for mothers Paperback
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S teiner discusses death;
our physical life on
Earth and the etheric,
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Lily and the interwoven with cos­mic
Anthroposophy (A Fragment) Mystery Dramas of Rudolf Steiner existence; and how the “missing
A New Foundation for the Study of links” in evo­lution are spiritual in
Paul M arshall Allen
Human Nature & Joan deRis Allen
nature. Steiner also considers wak-
Rudolf Steiner ing, dream­ing, and sleeping and how
Foreword by Robert Sardello, ph.d
Introduction by James A. Dyson, md T he authors discuss
Goethe’s life and the
importance his fairy tale
each is connected with our lives.
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Love and Its Meaning
in the World
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
C hapters include “The
Division of the Sexes”;
“Lucifer and Christ”; “The
Mission of Reverence”;
“The Buddha’s Teaching
of Compassion and
Love”; “Faith, Love, and
Hope”; and the title lecture, “Love
& Its Meaning in the World.” Also self that guides us through
included as an epilogue: “I-Feeling, life. Through this initial
the Soul’s Capacity to Love, and wisdom, we enter the
Their Relationship to the Elemental physical realm and, as we
World.”
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The New Experience of
the Supersensible
Jesaiah Ben-Aharon
A ccording to Steiner,
the greatest spiritual
event of our time is the
renewal and reawakening of our
human suprasensory relationship
to the higher spiritual worlds. The
force that leads to this development
is called the “Christ impulse” by
Anthroposophy. This book builds
an all-important bridge between the
naturally given suprasensory experi-
ence and its conscious cognition.
This new paperback edition adds a
new introductory chapter.
Dr. Jesaiah Ben-Aharon is a
founder of Global Network for Three-
folding, Activists for Israeli Civil
Society, and of a School for Spiritual
Science. He also cofounded Kibbutz
Harduf (1980), where he lives. He is
the author of several books.
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The Spiritual Guidance of the Cosmic Memory
Individual and Humanity The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria,
Some Results of Spiritual-Scientific and the Division of the Sexes
Research into Human History and Rudolf Steiner
Development Introduction by Paul Marshall Allen
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Hilmar Moore
Written 1904-1908 (CW 11)
F
rom the akashic
Translated by Samuel Desch
record, this volume
Written 1911, from 3 lectures, reconstructs events that
Copenhagen, June 1911 (CW 15) span the time between
Steiner points to our the origin of the Earth
awareness of a second and the beginning
of recorded history.
Through this discussion of our true
origins, Cosmic Memory offers a
genuine foundation for our lives,
grow, exchange it for self- allowing us to realize our real value,
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Rudolf Steiner’s World View 1912 (CW 155)
L. Francis Edmunds
F
rancis exemplifies
T his is a warm and morality as the mid-
dle path, as his warrior
clear introduction to
nature was transformed
Anthroposophy that will
into mercy, compassion,
prove valuable to any-
and love. Steiner shows
one who wants a better
the transformation of
understanding of Rudolf
the virtues through the evolution of
Steiner’s work.
L. Francis Edmunds began his consciousness and Christ’s incarna-
studies as a medical student, but tion and the Mystery of Golgotha.
became a teacher and founded Emer- Since then, true morality works to
build up Christ’s being.
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A Study Companion to Understanding the Human Being Chance, Providence & Necessity
An Outline of Esoteric Science Selected Writings of Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner
Clopper Almon Rudolf Steiner 8 lectures, Dornach, Aug.–Sept. 1915
Edited by Richard Seddon (CW 163)

T he author, a long-time

S
T
student of An Outline his selection of Steiner’s teiner describes nature
of Esoteric Science, writings illustrates his spirits, particularly
guides the reader, step- manifold talents and gnomes, and relates his
by-step, through one of sure eye toward spiritual penetrating insights to
Steiner’s most difficult knowledge. the question of the death
works. Almon’s commen- of children and the sig-
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Spiritual Science and Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner
the Logic of the Heart 7 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 10–16, 1915 9 lectures, Dornach, February, 1923
Bernard Nesfield -Cookson (CW 253) (CW 221)

T he author shows the

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including sexuality, has spiritual S
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roots and makes clear that being part development after death,
of the greatest of all acts
of love—the Mystery of of any spiritual community entails we must become fully
Golgotha. special responsibilities and a new human in earthly life and
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Sigismund von Gleich Michaelmas and the Freedom as Spiritual Activity

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Soul Forces of Man
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Edward Warren

of Rudolf Steiner, pres-

ents the fivefold stream of
4 lectures, Vienna, 1923 (CW 223) O
bserving Steiner’s wish that his
main philosoph­ical book, Die

S
inspiration from the spirit teiner speaks of a new kind of Philosophie der Freiheit (Intuitive
world, which is the basis autumn festival, Michaelmas. Thinking As a Spiritual Path), be
of Anthroposophy. Steiner introduces a theme he reworked in every new generation,
expanded on in The Four Seasons Warren treats this theme in a fresh
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 Th e F u n dam e n t als o f A n t hr o p o s o ph y

The East in the Light of the West The Great Religions Awakening to Community
Two Eastern Streams in the Light of Pathways to Our Innermost Being Rudolf Steiner
Christian Esotericism, Part 1: Agni Yoga Pietro Archiati 10 lectures, Jan.–Mar. 1923 (CW 257)
Sergei O. Prokofieff
A
rchiati shows that the
S teiner explains that in anthropo-

In this first volume of his study of various religions rep- sophic communities we can expe-
two influential Eastern streams, resent stages in individual rience our first awakening to the
Prokofieff considers the spiritual human development and spirit in our encounters with others,
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T his book explores the
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T his study suggests that
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Christmas Conference
M arie Steiner gion, between Christian can be reenlivened today

T his volume includes and Jewish esotericism, through conscious

insightful forewords and between Cabala efforts to experience its
that Marie Steiner wrote and Anthroposophy. spiritual essence. It offers
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4 lectures, Berlin, January 20–23, 1914
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Michaelmas, anthropo-
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 Th e F u n dam e n t als
World History and the Mysteries in
the Light of Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner
9 lectures, Dornach, Dec.
1923–Jan. 1924 (CW 233)
S teiner surveys the devel-
opment of memory in
human evolution and how
people saw themselves
and the world in the ancient East and
how that understanding manifested
in the ancient mysteries and influ-
enced modern spiritual life.
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Rosicrucianism
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Mystery Centers of the Middle Ages
Rudolf Steiner
6 lectures, Dornach, Jan. 4–13, 1924
(CW 233)
S teiner shows how natural aware-
ness of spirit in nature disappeared
in favor of materialism and how eso-
teric knowledge was preserved by
early Rosicrucian schools and alche-
mists and later occult schools. .
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Founding a Science of the
Rudolf Steiner
14 lectures, Stuttgart,
Aug.–Sept., 1906 (CW 95)
T opics include human nature in rela-
tion to the cosmos; earthly evolu-
tion; the soul’s journey after death;
reincarnation and karma; good and
evil; and meditation training. The
emphasis throughout is on scientific
exposition of spiritual phenomena.
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o f A n t hr o p o s o ph y
Harmony of the Creative Word natural alchemy: mercury, sulphur,
The Human Being and the Elemental, salt; beyond nature consciousness:
Animal, Plant & Mineral Kingdoms the spiritual goal.
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12 lectures, Oct. 19–Nov. 11, 1923 Sophia Books
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S teiner speaks of the
plant and animal
worlds in planetary and
Christian Rosenkreutz
The Mystery, Teaching and Mission of a
cosmic evolution and Master
T
introduces us to elemental opics here include the mystery of
nature spirits, the beings Christian Rosenkreutz, today and
behind plants and ani- in the past; the guardian of mod-
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the harmony of the Creative Word. Rosicrucian teachings; Rosenkreutz
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Th e P o c k e t L ibrar y 96 pages
o f S piri t u al The Druids
Wisd o m Esoteric Wisdom of the
Ancient Celtic Priests
The Holy Grail
The Quest for the
S un initiation of the Druids; mys-
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Renewal of the Mysteries
Christianity: Druid heritage: spirit
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R u d o l f S t e i n e r ’ s Tal k s w i t h
Rudolf Steiner’s Talks with
T he books below record informal discussions between Rudolf Steiner and workers at the first Goetheanum in
Dornach, Switzerland. The subjects were chosen by the audience, and Steiner took questions. The astonishing
nature of his responses — their insight, knowledge, and spiritual depth — is testimony to Steiner’s outstanding abil-
ity as a spiritual initiate and profound thinker. Accessible, entertaining and stimulating, the records of these ses-
sions will be a delight to anyone with an open mind.
From Sunspots to Strawberries...
Answers to Questions
14 discussions with workers, Dornach,
June to Sept. 1924 (CW 354)
S ubjects include Lemuria
and Atlantis; Chinese
and Indian cultures; raw
food; vegetarianism; chil-
dren’s nutrition; farming
matters such as manure
and soil; hardening of the
arteries; the sense of smell; planetary
influences; weather and its causes;
creation of the world; origin of the
human being; Saturn, Sun and Moon;
Darwinism; Earth strata and fossils;
star wisdom; lightning and volca-
noes; more.
ISBN: 1855841126
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$26.00
240 pages
From Crystals to Crocodiles...
Answers to Questions
10 discussions with workers, Dornach,
Aug. to Sept. 1922 (CW 347)
S peech and languages;
lefthandedness; dino-
saurs; turtles and croco-
diles; oxygen and carbon;
ancient giant oysters; the
Moon, Sun, and Earth; the
Old Testament; the nature
of Adam; breathing and brain activ-
ity; sugar; the liver and perception;
brain cells and thinking; Paracelsus;
alcohol; and more.
ISBN: 185584107x
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Workers at the Goetheanum
From Comets to Cocaine...
Answers to Questions
18 discussions with workers, Dornach,
Oct. 1922–Feb. 1923 (CW 348)
N icotine and alcohol;
illness; pregnancy;
vegetarian and meat diets;
the human nose; smell and
taste; eye and hair colors;
planets and metals; mental
illness; the ice age; the thy-
roid and hormones; bea­vers; wasps;
bees; jaundice; smallpox; rabies.
ISBN: 185584088x
Paperback
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$30.00
320 pages
From Beetroot to Buddhism...
Answers to Questions
16 discussions with workers, Dornach,
March to June 1924 (CW353)
C hristianity and Islam;
mummies; astronomy,
Tibet and the Dalai Lama;
Freemasonry; moon and
sun religions; the Myster­
ies, the Trinity; Moses;
Easter; ancient cultures;
nationalism; and more.
ISBN: 1855840626
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From Mammoths to Mediums...
Answers to Questions
16 discussion with workers, Dornach,
May 1922 to Sept. 1923 (CW 348)
T
opics include danc-
ing and sport; guard-
ian angels; stars; Druids;
Aristotle; Catholic and
Masonic rit­uals; proteins;
fats; carbohydrates; salts;
G o e t h e a n u m
blood cir­culation; honesty; boredom;
opinions; kidneys; plant and human
fertilization.
ISBN: 1855840782
Paperback
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$30.00
328 pages
From Elephants to Einstein...
Answers to Questions
10 discussions with workers, Dornach,
Jan. to Feb. 1924 (CW 352)
D iscussions cover ele-
phants; ants and bees;
shells and skeletons; ani-
mal and plant poisons;
bodily secretions and
nutrition; potatoes; the
human eye; fresh and salt
water; fish and bird migration; cloth­
ing; opium and alcohol; and more.
ISBN: 1855840812
Paperback
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$22.00
288 pages
From Limestone to Lucifer
Answers to Questions
12 discussions with workers, Dornach,
Feb. to May 1923 (CW 349)
ogy; the Earth; heal-
ing; color and illness;
rainbows; childhood
diseases; seances; sleep;
dreams; reincarnation;
more.
ISBN: 1855840979
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 Th e L i f e
The Life & Work
of Rudolf Steiner
Into the Heart’s Land
A Century of Rudolf Steiner’s
Work in North America
Henry Barnes
T he author of A Life for
the Spirit brings read-
ers a comprehensive view
of the roots and develop-
ment of Anthroposophy
throughout North
America. From its semi-
nal beginnings with a few hearty
souls in New York City, it moved
across the prairies to the west coast
and beyond, to Canada, Mexico, and
Hawaii, and took root in the hearts
and minds of the “new world.” Here
is the story of those adventurous
spirits who took responsibility for
bringing the work of Rudolf Steiner
to North America in the form of
study groups, agricultural initiatives,
Waldorf and special education, the
arts, and so much more.
This thorough history will acquaint
the reader with the individuals who
have nurtured Anthroposophy in
North America as well as the orga-
nizations and initiatives they devel-
oped.
Henry Barnes, born in 1912 in
New York City, attended Lincoln
School of Teachers’ College and Har-
vard College and went on to Waldorf
teacher training in Stuttgart before
becoming a class teacher for many
years. He was also a general secre-
tary of the Anthroposophical Society
in America.
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& W o r k o f R u d o l f S t e i n e r
A Life for the Spirit Correspondence & Documents
Rudolf Steiner in the 1901–1925
Crosscurrents of Our Time Rudolf Steiner
Henry Barnes (CW 262)
P eople today who rec-
ognize Rudolf Steiner’s
name know that nearly all
U nique insight both
into the develop-
ment of the anthropo-
fields of life have been fruc- sophic movement and
tified by his insights — not the relationship between
in abstract ways, but in Rudolf Steiner and
concrete ways that change Marie Steiner-von Sivers
real lives. No wonder, then, that through their letters. Subjects range
Steiner has been called “the best kept from an esoteric view of human evo-
secret of the twentieth century.” lution to how to deal with problem
In this biography, Barnes recounts personalities, as well as many discus­
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Andrew Welburn
Rudolf Steiner
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Sergei O. Prokofieff
R
udolf Steiner created a
vast legacy of practical
contributions to cultural,
T he author investigates
the deepest myster-
ies of Steiner’s life and
scientific, and spiritual
renewal. And behind it
all is a highly developed
the establishment of new system of thought that
myster­ies on Earth dur- addresses some of the most problem-
ing the twentieth century. atic philosophical issues.
He examines the physi- Welburn presents fascinating
cal and suprasensory aspects of the insights into the radical nature of
first Goetheanum, the implications Steiner’s thinking by examining his
of the Christmas Conference, and inheritance of ideas from Goethe, his
the Foundation Stone meditation, a attempts to break away from Carte-
legacy from Steiner to the Anthropo­ sian dualism and Kantian idealism,
sophical Society. This study is unprec- and his challenge to the conventional
edented in its depth and significance. framework of European philosophy.
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 Th e L i f e & W o r k o f R u d o l f S t e i n e r

Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner Time of Decision with

An Illustrated Biography
Johannes Hemleben
T his classic biography
T
sheds light on Steiner’s
An Introduction to His
Spiritual World-View
Roy Wilkinson
hese succinct summa-
Rudolf Steiner
Experience and Encounter
Friedrich Hiebel
Translated by M. St. Goar

life — his childhood and
his youthful years as
a respected Goethean
scholar and philoso-
pher in Weimar; his
involvement in the Theosophical
and Anthroposophical societies; the
development of spiritual science; the
creation of spiritual initi­atives in art,
the social sciences, education, med­
icine, agriculture, religion and archi-
tecture; the Christmas Foundation
meeting. Also includes a chronology,
personal tributes, an extensive sec­
tion for further reading, an index,
and sixty-nine photographs and illus-
trations.
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ries of Steiner’s thinking
introduce aspects of his
philosophy. Twelve chap-
ters cover Steiner as the
herald of a new age; rein-
carnation and karma; the
spiritual nature of human beings; the
development of human conscious-
ness; cosmic and human evolu­tion;
relationships between the living and
those who have died; evil; a modern
path of initiation; life between death
and rebirth; the spiritual hierar­chies;
a philosophical approach to spirit;
and the mission of Christ.
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T
he author writes of the
early Anthroposophical
Society and Steiner’s work
and relationship to his
students, as well as the
Christmas Conference of
1923, which he attended.
He recreates the mood of laying
the Foundation Stone and offers his
insights into the structure and mean-
ing of the “Foundation Stone” medi-
tation.
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Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner
and Work on the First Goetheanum
Assya Turgeniev

A
216 pages Meeting Rudolf Steiner ssya Turgeniev, a colleague of
Rudolf Steiner Classics Selections From the Rudolf Steiner, answers many
Herald of a New Epoch Journal for Anthroposophy questions in this first-hand account
Stewart Easton Joan Almon, editor
of her close relationship with Steiner
from 1912 until his death in 1925.

T his full-scale, classic Series editor Robert McDermott

biography of Rudolf
Steiner is the first written
in English. It shows how
Steiner’s thought and
work developed year by
year and provides back-
ground to his various books, lectures,
artistic achievements, and activi-
ties. At the same time, the reader
gets to glimpse the man himself, the
unique personality who founded
Anthroposophy and whose influence
is still increasing after more than
eighty years since his death in 1925.
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She recounts the burning of the
T his collection of arti-
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hand accounts of what
Goetheanum, the period surround-
ing Steiner’s death, the early per­
formances of his mystery plays, his
it was like to live and lectures and travels, and the artis-
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Esoteric Studies
Philosophy as an
Approach to the Spirit
An Introduction to the
Fundamental Works of Rudolf Steiner
Richard Seddon
T hough Steiner’s work
remained largely unno-
ticed by contemporary
philosophers, his philoso-
phy lays the foundation for
all that followed. Because
it describes Steiner’s expe-
riences of the physical and invisible
worlds, the author places it in the
context of a brief biography to show
how Steiner’s thinking developed.
Richard Seddon studied moral sci-
ences (philosophy, ethics, logic, and
psychology) with Bertrand Russell
and John Wisdom—an advocate and
colleague of Ludwig Wittgenstein—
at Cambridge.
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The Incarnation of Ahriman
The Embodiment of Evil on Earthmodern spirituality, he
Rudolf Steiner
Translation revised by M. Barton stream of Rosicrucian
7 lectures (collected)
S teiner spoke
Ahriman as an actual,
living spiritual entity who
of
works to embed human
beings firmly into physi-
cality, materialistic atti-
tudes, and dry intellect.
He talks about an actual incarnation principles behind Anthroposophy.
of Ahriman on Earth and the poten-
tial consequences of this event.
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Es o t e ric S t u di e s
Mystics after Modernism Rosicrucian Wisdom (CD Set)
Discovering the Seeds of a New Science An Introduction
in the Renaissance 14 lectures, Munich, May 22–June 6,
Rudolf Steiner 1907 (CW 99)
Foreword by Christopher Bamford Rudolf Steiner
Afterword by Paul M. Allen Read by Peter Bridgmont
Written 1901 (CW 7)
E leven mystics
the world, God, and
saw T he CD edition, complete and
unabridged, was recorded by Alan
Marriott and read by the respected
themselves in ways that actor and speech teacher Peter
foreshadowed all that we Bridgmont, author of Liberation of
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Rosicrucian Wisdom T he author discusses Europe from
the perspective of the various
“archangels of time” and their rule,
An Introduction
from Michael’s regency in the mid-
Rudolf Steiner sixth to third centuries b.c. and up to
14 lectures, Munich, May 22–June 6, his present rule from 1879 until the
1907 (CW 99)
twenty-second century.
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Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Andrew Welburn
arises from the results of his own
14 lectures, Dornach, 1923 (CW 232)
experiential, spiritual research.
Rosicrucian Wisdom is one of the
best lecture courses for gaining a S
teiner describes the ancient mys-
tery schools, as well as the mys-
deeper understanding of the spiritual teries of Artemis, Hibernia, Eleusis,
Samothrace, the Middle Ages, and
Previous edition: Theosophy of the the conditions of initiation today.
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The Interior of the Earth
An Esoteric Study of the
Subterranean Spheres
Rudolf Steiner
Revised by Paul V. O’Leary
Selected lectures
M odern science can-
not speak with real
authority about much
of the Earth’s interior.
Steiner’s discussions of
the subterranean spheres
are gathered, along with
notes and an introduction, for the
first time in this comprehensive vol-
ume. The Interior of the Earth is a
great companion to The Inner Life
of the Earth (page 7).
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$20.00
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The Transformation of Evil
And the Subterranean Spheres
of the Earth
Sigismund von Gleich
Introduction by Paul V. O’Leary
V on Gleich offers a pow-
erful meditation on evil
and its eventual transfor-
mation. Focusing on the
realm of “subnature,” or
“the subterranean spheres,”
he shows how the vari-
ous layers of the Earth’s interior are
linked directly to the mystery of evil.
In a new introduction, Paul V.
O’Leary places this work within the
context of today’s world.
ISBN: 1902636716
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The Karma of Untruthfulness, 1
Secret Societies, the Media,
and Preparations for the Great War
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Terry M. Boardman
13 lectures, Dornach & Basel, Dec.
4–31, 1916 (CW 173)
Amid the turmoil of
World War I, Steiner
spoke out courageously
against the hate, lies, and
propaganda of the time.
His detailed research into
the spiritual impulses of
human evolution allowed him to
reveal the dominant role that secret
brotherhoods played in events that
culminated in that cataclysmic war.
He warned that the retarding forces
of nationalism must be overcome
before Europe can find its true destiny.
He also emphasized the urgent need
for new social structures in order to
avoid such future catastrophes.
ISBN: 185584186x
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The Karma of Untruthfulness, 2
Secret Societies, the Media,
and Preparations for the Great War
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Terry M. Boardman
12 lectures, Dornach Jan. 1–30, 1917
(CW 174)
I n volume 2, Steiner
takes these lectures fur-
ther, again offering much
insight into today’s politi-
cal spin, media distor-
tions, propaganda and
downright lies.
ISBN: 1855841916
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$27.00
264 pages
A Secret History of Consciousness
Gary L achman
Introduction by Colin Wilson
“A marvelously
exhilarating gallop
through every
important modern
theory of consciousness,
from Steiner to Maslow,
from Bucke’s ‘cosmic
consciousness’ to
Gebser’s ‘integral consciousness.’”
—Colin Wilson, author of
The Outsider
“Opens up vast vistas of
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Bruce H. McCausland
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Green Hermeticism
Alchemy and Ecology
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Kevin Townley
& Christopher Bamford
Introduction by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
The Tree of Life and the Holy Grail Camino Walk
Ancient and Modern Spiritual Paths and Where Inner & Outer Paths Meet
the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château M arie-L aure Valandro
Sylvia Francke
V alandro takes read-

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Peter Lamborn Wilson,
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of the alternative world-
view of Hermeticism.
Christopher Bamford
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strating that cosmology and philoso-
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for the Earth.
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Life from Light
Is it possible to live without food?
A scientist reports on his experiences
Michael Werner & Thomas Stöckli
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preceded and ran parallel to the birth
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The Mystery of the Warrior Monks
Rudolf Steiner
Compiled by Margaret Jonas
In this unique collection
of lectures and writings,
Steiner offers a new per-
spective on the Templars’
connection to the esoteric
centuries-old Camino
de Santiago in northern
Spain. The Camino de
Santiago de Compostela
(the Way of St James) is literally a
path of devotion to the beings of
Christianity—to Christ, to Mary,
and to Saint James, for whom the
Camino and the cathedral at the end
are named. The Camino de Santiago
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ranges from high plateaus to rugged
mountain trails. It is a challenging
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outer paths meet.
Marie-Laure Valandro was born
in Tunisia and has lived and traveled
in numerous places around the globe
since then.
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The Mysteries
Rudolf Steiner’s Writings
on Spiritual Initiation
Rudolf Steiner &
Andrew Welburn

T
is the managing direc- he results of Steiner’s
tradition of St. John and
tor of a research insti- anthroposophic spiri-
the Holy Grail and their
tute in Switzerland. Life from Light tual research reveal
spiritual dedication to Christ. He
describes how he stopped eating in both the ancient mys-
describes a secret order within the
2001 and has thrived ever since. teries and modern ini-
Templars and their strange rituals.
Included are reports from others tiation. He outlines the
He also sheds light on the Templars’
who have attempted this way of life, origin of plants and
attitude toward the Roman Church
plus possible scientific explanations. animals and humanity’s connection
and the spiritual forces that inspired
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Spiritualism, Madame Blavatsky Secret Brotherhoods Philosophy, Cosmology & Religion

& Theosophy And the Mystery of the Human Double Rudolf Steiner
An Eyewitness View of Occult History Rudolf Steiner 10 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 1922
Rudolf Steiner 7 lectures, various cities, Nov. 1917 (CW 215)
(CW 178)
S
Edited & introduced by teiner focuses on exer-

T
Christopher Bamford aking readers behind cises to attain higher
the scenes, Steiner spiri­tual development,
W ithout the spiritual-
ist movement and
the amaz­ing personality
reveals a dark world of
secret elitist brother-
describing philosophy
as based on imagination,
hoods trying to control cosmology on inspira-
of H. P. Blavatsky, the the masses through eco-
Theosophical Society, and tion, and reli­gion on
nomics, technology, and intuition.
the spiritual revolution political assassinations.
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The Threefold Nature of
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into occult history and the roots of Occult Movements Coenraad van Houten

T
Theosophy in Western esotericism, Rudolf Steiner he author extends
especially Ros­icrucianism, secret his earlier works—
20 lectures, Berlin, 1904–1906
societies, and the hidden history Practising Destiny and
(CW 93)
behind the creation of Theoso­phy in Awakening the Will. He
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T
Evil hese eighteen essays
accomplished. It supports Selected Lectures offer thoughts on
and extends Steiner’s where Anthroposophy in
Rudolf Steiner
Anthroposophy, providing a secure its earthly manifestation
foundation in suprasensory real­ities.
Carl Unger was a close student of T he effects of Lucifer and Ahriman now stands and to what
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The Redemption of Thinking Macrocosm and Microcosm Trumpet to the Morn

A Study in the Philosophy of Rudolf Steiner The Golden Blade 2001
Thomas Aquinas 11 lectures, Vienna, March 1910 William Forward &
Rudolf Steiner (CW 119) Simon Blaxland -de L ange, editors

H T
3 lectures, Dornach, uman life alternates between his insightful collec-
May 1920 (CW 74) the great outer macrocosm and tion of articles brings

S teiner describes the the hidden inner microcosm. Steiner out new anthroposophic
background of early discusses the various paths of inner research, with topics
Chris­tian thought and devel­opment that lead to crossing ranging from clairvoy-
focuses on the question: these two thresholds and the trans- ance to Bolshevism to
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Rudolf Steiner Facts, Questions, and Perspectives on Simon Blaxland -de L ange &
7 lectures, Berlin, June 6–July 18, 1916 September 11, 2001 Andrew Wolpert, Editors
(CW 169) T. H. Meyer
T his collection is devoted

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teiner deals with the sing the events of 9/11 and Pearl to taking charge of
importance of balance Harbor as his backdrop, Meyer destiny by understand-
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K aren Swassjan
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Inner Development
Transforming the Soul, vol.
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Pauline Wehrle
9 lectures, Berlin, 1909 (CW 58)
S teiner describes the mis-
sions of anger, truth
and reverence, the signifi-
cance of human character,
the meaning of asceticism
and illness, and the phe-
nomenon of egoism. He
also clarifies the differences between
Buddhism and Christianity, describes
the goal of spiritual science, and
makes some esoteric observations
about the moon.
A previous translation was titled
Metamorphoses of the Soul: Paths of
Experience, vol. 1.
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Transforming the Soul, vol.
Rudolf Steiner
Translation revised by Pauline Wehrle
9 lectures, Berlin, 1910 (CW 59)
T hese lectures conclude Transforming
the Soul, vol. 1, but can also be read
independently.
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Self Transformation
Rudolf Steiner
S elected lectures offer exercises for
breaking free of ordinary con-
sciousness and advice on developing
clear thinking, inner tranquillity, and
pos­itivity, the necessary foundation
for esoteric work.
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Raising the Soul
Practical Exercises for
1 Personal Development
Warren Lee Cohen
T his handbook is based
on seven contemplative
exercises from the work
of Rudolf Steiner. Cohen presents a
pathway to saying “yes” to more of
what life offers and to be more open
to the abundance of life’s experi-
ences.
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Enlivening theChakra
of the Heart
The Fundamental Spiritual Exercises
of Rudolf Steiner
Florin Lowndes
L owndes details funda-
mental exercises and
offers sugges­tions for
2 developing living thinking,
which is closely related to
the heart chakra.
Florin Lowndes founded the Cen-
ter of Heart Thinking in Boston.
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Lighting Fires
Deepening Education through Meditation
Jörgen Smit
S mit addresses the inner
path of the teacher and
gives practical examples
that can help develop the
powers of thinking, per-
ception, living in time, or
“becoming,” and imagina-
tion.
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Esoteric Development
Lectures and Writings
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Stephen Usher
H ere is an orderly
sequence of state-
ments by Steiner on the
development of higher,
suprasensory know-
ing — imagination, inspi-
ration, and intuition.
Nine chapters discuss inner devel-
opment, the need for higher know-
ing, and examples of the necessary
practices and inner gestures. Steiner
describes the steps and stages, always
emphasizing the free, individual, and
cognitive nature of spiritual-scientific
research.
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Anthroposophy & the Inner Life
An Esoteric Introduction
Rudolf Steiner
9 lectures, Dornach, Jan.–Feb. 1924
(CW 234)
T hese lectures were
given to an audience
of seasoned students of
Anthroposophy. However,
Steiner described this
course as “introductory.”
He felt that it was vital
to describe the purpose and nature
of Anthroposophy from numer-
ous perspectives and, most impor-
tant, to reveal the esoteric nature of
Anthroposophy in an exoteric way.
Previous edition: Anthroposophy:
An Introduction.
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Guidance in Esoteric Training
From the Esoteric School
Rudolf Steiner
Early talks & writings (CW 245)
S elected from material
given by Steiner to
members of his esoteric
school (1904–1914), this
expanded edition features
exercises, meditations,
and practices for spiri-
tual self-development. In contrast to Dennis Klocek is director of their
Eastern methods of inner develop- Consciousness Studies Program at
ment, these practices arise from the Rudolf Steiner College in California.
Western, Rosicrucian stream, adapted
fully to modern consciousness.
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Working with Anthroposophy
The Practice of Thinking
Georg Kühlewind
G eorg Kühlewind will
help guide begin-
ning students and inspire
longtime students along
the path made public by
Rudolf Steiner. As with
all of Kühlewind’s works,
this book brings new insights with
each reading.
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An Exercise for Karmic Insight
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Pauline Wehrle
1 lecture (CW 236)
S teiner presents an exercise for
understanding karma.
ISBN: 9781855841543
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The Seer’s Handbook Start Now!
A Guide to Higher Perception A Book of Soul and Spiritual Exercises
Dennis Klocek Rudolf Steiner
Edited and introduced
A fter presenting the
by Christopher Bamford
practical exercises
S
and commentary, Klocek tructured in chap-
shows how the path can ters that lead the
be followed by under- reader from foundational
standing an alchemical instructions and practices
image of the soul’s jour- to more advanced work with verses,
ney. meditations, and visualizations, Start
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Michael Lipson, Ph.D.
Turned Upside Down
S ix steps outlined here—
thinking, doing, feeling,
A Workbook on Earth Changes
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W ember describes a path that to let go of our attachments to physi-
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Meditation Egyptian Myths and Mysteries Turning Points in Spiritual History

Transforming Our Lives Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner
for the Encounter with Christ 12 lectures, Leipzig, Sept. 1908 Introduction by Edward R. Smith
Jörgen Smit (CW 106) Lecture collection, 1911—1912

Jörgen Smit removes the

mystique surrounding
meditation practice. He shows how
to form meditative images and how
to control thoughts and volition
through simple exercises that lead to
experience of the higher self.
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Myth, Evolution & History
The Return of Merlin
Star Lore and the Patterns of History
Gordon Strachan
Sbetween
teiner emphasizes the
special relationship
our time and that
A ccording to Steiner,
there were five turn-
ing points in the process
of ancient Egypt and that
it is especially relevant to leading to the Mystery of
Golgotha. Each is exem-
look at ancient Egypt with
fresh eyes. plified by an individual:
Zarathustra, Hermes,
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M erlin and related proach to the spiritual world and

Aspects of Human Evolution
events appear to the history of the human being.” Rudolf Steiner
in roughly 700-year ––Owen Barfield Foreword by J. Leonard Benson
cycles in British history.
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birth dates. Megalithic Measures and Rhythms and feeling to keep the
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the New Isis Mystery that the extraordinary advanced age, each year, becoming
Rudolf Steiner mathematical skills of the richer and more interesting than the
7 lectures, Jan. 1918 (CW 180); British megalithic build- year before. These lectures give real
1 lecture, Dec. 1920 (CW 202) ers was original and self-contained— meaning to the idea that we live in a
and eventually, the elite of that soci- state of becoming!
S teiner looks at ancient myths, ety became the “proto-Greeks” as
showing how the Osiris–Isis
myth expresses the loss of direct
This volume and The Karma of
their knowledge flowed toward the Material­ism comprise the whole of
Eastern Mediterranean. CW 176.
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The Karma of Materialism .The Secret Stream Mystery of the Universe

Rudolf Steiner Christian Rosenkreutz & Rosicrucianism The Human Being, Model of Creation
9 lectures, Berlin, 1917 (CW 176) Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner
Foreword by Owen Barfield Introduction by Christopher Bamford 16 lectures, Dornach, April–May 1920
(CW 201)

S teiner examines the effects of sci-

entists’ failure to examine think-
ing itself and explains that there is a
lack of harmony between the human
intellect and the sense of morality,
which involves our “I” being.
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The Evolution of the World
and of Humanity
Rudolf Steiner
13 lectures, Wales, Aug. 1923
T
on
his volume collects
Steiner’s
the
discussions
Rosicrucians S teiner explains that
the ancient maxim
and answers such ques- “know thyself! does not
tions as: Who are the mean for us to study
Rosicrucians? What is subjec­tively our personal
Alchemy? What is the character, but to know
Rosicrucian path? What is the dif- our true, archetypal
ference between Rosicrucianism and human nature and our place in the
mysticism? And what does it mean cosmic scheme.
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T hese lectures are about the three

stages of higher con­sciousness, the
human being’s relation to the three
History in
Owen Barfield
English Words Rudolf Steiner’s Association with Helmuth
and Eliza von Moltke—Letters, Documents
Foreword by W. H. Auden & After-Death Communications
worlds, the ruling spirit in nature,
existence in the spiritual world after T. H. Meyer, editor
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of
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Snations
teiner begins this volume with a 192 pages
consider­ation of the destinies of The Great Initiates The Mysteries of the East
from a spiritual perspective. and of Christianity
A Study of the Secret
He goes on to consider the Christ History of Religions Rudolf Steiner
impulse and Michaelic spirits. Also 4 lectures, Berlin, February 3–7, 1913
included are lectures on the three Edouard Schuré
(CW 144)
stages of imagination, sleeping and
waking, the physical and etheric bod-
ies, dreams, and the cosmic meaning
T
his overview of history describes
the lives and works of extraordi-
nary human beings, including Rama,
S
teiner sketches the evolution of the
mys­teries from ancient Persia to
of our senses, thinking, feeling, and the present day.
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The Spiritual Event of
the Twentieth Century
The Occult Significance of the 12 Years,
1933–45, in the Light of Spiritual Science
Jesaiah Ben-Aharon
B en-Aharon gives a
first-hand testimony
on Steiner’s view of the
new Christ revelation
and offers his findings on
the “spiritual event of the
twentieth century.”
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Necessity and Freedom
Rudolf Steiner
5 lectures, Berlin, Jan.–Feb. 1916
(CW 166)
S teiner illuminates the questions of
free­dom and necessity, guilt and
innocence. He includes questions of
evolution, his­tory, and culture, show-
ing how and where human beings
carry responsibility for these devel-
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The Occult Movement
in the Nineteenth Century
Rudolf Steiner
10 lectures, Dornach, Oct. 1915
(CW 254)
W ays of thinking and their spiri-
tual and social structures in
any period are not accidental. They
are brought about by certain groups
of people working together for good
or evil. Steiner describes these hidden
groups in the nineteenth century and of human evolution.
their effects today.
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Rudolf Steiner of Eastern Europe
11 lectures, 1909 (CW 109) And the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail
Sergei O. Prokofieff
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U
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has been guided spiritually by the research, Prokofieff
life forces and astral bodies of the shows that human con-
great initiates and avatars, which science arose from ancient,
were preserved, duplicated, and hidden mystery centers
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East and West
S teiner discusses the
polarities of West and
Rudolf Steiner
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East, materialism and
10 lectures, Vienna, June 1–11, 1922
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(CW 83)
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 L i f e a f t e r D e a t h

Life after Death meditation practices and verses that Crossing the Threshold
worked for him. Practical and Spiritual Guidance on Death
Experiences with the This important volume will help and Dying, Based on the
Dying and the Dead those who want to deepen their rela-
Work of Rudolf Steiner
Waking to Our Connections tionships to the living, to those who
Nicholas Wijnberg & Philip M artyn
have died, or to the spiritual world
with Those Who Have Died
Claire Blatchford
itself.
ISBN: 9780880104623
W riting from the per-
spective of Steiner’s
spiritual philosophy, the
A t the age of six, the author lost
her hearing. As she adjusted to
her new state of being in the world,
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I n this important lecture, Steiner
clearly describes life after death and
explains how those on the Earth can
80 pages
Light beyond the Darkness
awaken to a new world—the commu- How I Healed My Suicide Son
maintain a connection with loved
nity of human beings on both sides of
ones who have passed on. .
after His Death
the threshold. Doré Deverell
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led a difficult life of
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well as several published by Lindis- Bridge over the River ness and depression. His
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with the dead” — main- Steiner. Containing prayers, medita- 16 lectures, 1912–1913 (CW 140)
taining, continuing, and tions, insights, advice, and a view of
enhancing one’s relation-
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the world born aloft by love, it will
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 R e i n car n a t i o n a n d Karma

Life beyond Death One Step at a Time Where Are You?

Rudolf Steiner Mourning a Child Coming to Terms
Selected lectures Betty M adill with the Death of My Child
K arin V. Schilling
H ere, Steiner affirms
T he author combines

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that life continues sensi­tive recommenda- askia, the author’s
beyond death. Far from tions with recognized fou r teen-year- old
being dissipated, the individual’s bereave­ment counselling daughter, died instantly
consciousness awakens to a new advice. She offers practi- in a car accident. Karin
reality, beginning a great journey to cal suggestions to help was plunged into despair.
the farthest expanses of the cosmos. people begin their own This is her account of
One’s consciousness embarks on a path of healing and acceptance. the long odyssey to
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Though You Die
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Death and Life beyond Death
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Stanley Drake Reincarnation and Karma
Experiences of Life, Death & Other Worlds
Veronika van Duin
A Christian Community
priest gathers a large
Reincarnation and Karma

T he author tells her Two Fundamental Truths of Existence

amount of evidence in
remarkable story, from this thought-provoking Rudolf Steiner
her earliest glimpses of book about death and 5 Lectures, Berlin,
the other side to her most life beyond death. Stuttgart, 1912 (CW 135)
recent excursions “over
the river.” She also records
her mother’s passing, rich
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Near-Life Experiences passes through many lives on earth;
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How to develop a “feeling memory,”
Gabriel Bradford Millar, editor close. It gathers thoughts,
needed to experience reincarnation;
feelings, experiences, and
P eople returning to life
after serious accidents
occasionally describe
observations about death,
offering both spiri­t ual and practical
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 Karmic R e la t i o n ships

Karmic Relationships

Near the end of his life, Steiner assumed his special destiny: to awaken the West to reincarnation
and karma. He gave more than eighty lectures in 1924 to reveal the destinies of various individu-
als from one life to the next, to show how the laws of karma work in various cases. He also
revealed the karmic streams of members in the Anthroposophical Society.

Volume 1 Volume 5
12 lectures, Dornach, Feb. 16–Mar. 23, 1924 (CW 235) 7 lectures, Prague, Paris, Mar.–May, 1924 (CW 239)
An overview of karma. Considers the incarnations of The difference between “moon karma” and “sun karma”;
Friedrich Nietzsche, Lord Bacon of Verulam, Lord Byron, influences of Christian and Islamic think­ing; the trans-
and many others. formation of inner human qualities from one life to the
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Volume 2 128 pages
16 lectures, Dornach, Apr. 6–Jun. 29, 1924 (CW 236) Volume 6
Individual karmic relationships in history, such as Marx 9 lectures, various cities, Jan 25–Jul. 20, 1924
and Engels. Surveys karma in human life; the formation (CWs 235, 236, 240)
of karma after death; and the cosmic form of karma. Studies the karma of the anthroposophic move­ment and
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11 lectures, Dornach, Jul. 1–Aug. 8, 1924 (CW 237) 184 pages
Discusses karmic relationships within the anthro­ Volume 7
posophic movement; predispositions that lead people to 9 lectures, Breslau, June 7–15, 1924 (CW 239)
Anthroposophy; the two streams in the movement; Rosi- Focuses on human experiences after death and before
crucianism; Islam; Aristotelian­ism; Platonism; and the rebirth; karma in world history; the cosmic nature of
School of Michael. Christ; waking, dreaming, sleeping; and the physical
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Volume 4 148 pages
11 lectures, Dornach, Sept. 5–24, 1924 (CW 238) Volume 8
Karmic groups of souls connected to Aristotelian­ism 6 lectures, England, Aug. 12–27, 1924 (CW 240)
and Platonism; the karma of the anthropo­sophic move- Subjects include cosmic Christianity; the Michael impulse;
ment; and individual incarnations. Includes Steiner’s last the Arthurian and Grail streams of wis­dom; Gregory
address. VII; Haeckel; Swedenborg; Loyola; Haroun al-Raschid;
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 S piri t W o rlds & B e i n gs

Reincarnation and Immortality A Western Approach Children Who Communicate

Rudolf Steiner to Reincarnation and Karma before They Are Born
5 lectures, various cities, Rudolf Steiner Conversations with Unborn Souls
1916–1922; 1 essay, 1905 Selected Lectures & Writings Dietrich Bauer, M ax Hoffmeister
& Hartmut Goerg
S teiner shows that Edited & introduced by René Querido

E
immortality is not just Foreword by Robert McDermott xpectant mothers often
a continuation of life after experience a deep con-
death, but also involves a
continuation of life in the spiritual
of
Q uerido presents a
Western
karma and
per­spective
rebirth in
nection to their unborn
child, knowing the baby’s
world through reincarnation in the appearance, character, or
physical world. He also explores the light of Steiner’s spiri-
life path before giving
the mysteries of the human being, tual science. He selected
birth. The accounts here
human evolution, the nature of Steiner’s most important were gathered by three medical doc-
Anthroposophy, and social issues. lectures and writings on
tors.
the causes and effects of karma in
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Rudolf Steiner 224 pages Interviews with Verena Holstein
11 lectures, Hamburg, May 16–28, Wolfgang Weirauch, editor
1910 (CW 120)
Spirit Worlds & Beings
I
n these interviews, we

R udolf Steiner speaks hear the spirits of fire,

of karma as a reality air, water, and stone. We
Angels
that, if we understand it, hear from spirits of glass,
answers our deepest ques-
Selected Lectures house, salt, paper, and sil-
tions about life’s meaning Rudolf Steiner ver. They speak of their
and pur­pose. Many areas Translated by A.R. Meuss involvement with nature
of individual and world and their lack of human contact and
karma are discussed in this exciting
volume.
T hrough clair­voyance, Steiner con-
firmed the existence of angelic
beings and showed how modern
about cosmic secrets and about the
past and future of humankind.
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Nature Spirits
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the New Testament and explains how countries.

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What the Angels
Need to Tell Us Now
Receiving, Considering & Acting
on Their Messages
Irene Johanson
P art one focuses on the
author’s angelic guid-
ance during her years as
a Christian Community
priest. Part two consists of messages
received through her friend Agnes,
whose ability to communicate with
the angelic world is fully conscious.
Irene Johanson is the priest for the
Munich congregation and lectures.
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More Messages from the Angels
Preparing to Receive, Verifying
and Confirming the Truth
Irene Johanson
Johan­son offers advice
on preparing to receive
angelic mes­sages, explain-
ing how to distinguish
spirits and know when
information is genuine.
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The Work of the Angel
in Our Astral Body
Rudolf Steiner
1 lecture (CW 182)
teiner reveals that the angels wish for modern readers. Once you have
S to create images in human astral experienced Steiner’s powerful explo-
bodies to bring about “definite condi- ration of Matthew, you will never see
tions in the social life of the future,” the Gospels in the same way again.
related to brotherhood, religious free-
dom, and conscious spirituality.
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Guardian Angels
Connecting with Our
Spiritual Guides & Helpers
Rudolf Steiner
Collected by Margaret Jonas
S teiner describes the role of guard-
ian angels and our relationship
to the heav­enly hierarchies of spiri-
tual beings as a whole and how they
shape our human form through cos- ing of Steiner’s revelations
mic activity.
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Esoteric Christianity
According to Matthew
The Gospel of Christ’s Humanity
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Richard Smoley
12 lectures, Berne,
Sept. 1–12, 1910 (CW 123)
Sferent
teiner shows how each
Gospel presents a dif-
lens onto Christ’s
life and message. He
reveals that Matthew’s
Gospel emphasizes
Christ’s humanity. He also
traces Christ’s life and message to
spiritual impulses that go back to the
legendary civilization of Atlantis, to
the mysterious Zoroaster, and to the
Jewish Essene sect.
An introduction by Richard Smo-
ley, author of Inner Christianity,
puts Steiner’s vision into perspective
Previous translation: The Gospel of
St. Matthew.
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According to Luke
The Gospel of Compassion
and Love Revealed
Rudolf Steiner
10 lectures, Basel, Sept. 15–26, 1909
(CW 114)
Introduction by Robert McDermott
H
ere is the most acces-
sible and illuminat-
about the significance
of the Christ for the
spiritual development of
humanity. He discusses
the link between the Buddha and
the Christ, which unites Buddhism
and Christianity—not in theory but
in the spiritual activities of those
two beings. Steiner also describes
the relationship between the Greek
Mystery traditions and the Mystery
of Golgotha:
Previous translation: The Gospel of
St. Luke.
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Background to the
Gospel of St. Mark
Rudolf Steiner
13 lectures, 1910–1911 (CW 124)
S teiner stresses the relationship
between Mark’s gospel and the
“language of the macrocosm.” He
also dis­cusses the two main streams
of post-Atlantean civ­ilization, the
purpose of our time, the laws of
rhythm in the soul and spirit, and
much more.
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Christ and Sophia
Anthroposophic Meditations on the
Old Testament, New Testament, and
Apocalypse
Valentin Tomberg
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
T omberg shows how
the entire Bible tells
the history of the Christ
being, as well as the cos-
mic and earthly prepara-
tions for the Mystery of
Golgotha, its significance
for humanity and the world; the cen-
tral role of the Sophia being and her
relationship to the Christ, the Holy
Spirit, the Disciples, Pentecost, and
all humanity; and the Grail nature
of the Christ’s involvement in earthly
history.
Valentin Tomberg (1900–1973)
was drawn to the Russian Christian
esoteric tradition and to Vladimir
Soloviev at an early age, and later
had a personal experience of the
Sophia in a Cathedral. Under the
auspices of the Anthroposophical
Society, he lectured in Holland and
England and wrote extensively on his
esoteric understanding of the Bible
and Christianity.
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The Gospel of St. John
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Marie Steiner
Translated by Maud B. Monges
12 lectures, Hamburg,
May 5–31, 1908 (CW 103)
R eaders will find that the incarna-
tion, death, and resurrection of the
Divine Word reveals the mission of
the Earth—Love. Also explained are
the mysteries behind Lazarus’ resur-
rection, the “I AM” sayings, and the
seven degrees of initiation. We come
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Es o t e ric C hris t ia n i t y
to understand that the John’s Gospel Charles S. Tidball has been a stu-
is a continuing spiritual presence, to dent of Rudolf Steiner’s work since
be recalled, meditated, and perme- 1948.
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306 pages
the Holy Spirit.
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Why Jesus Didn’t Marry
Mary Magdalene
SteinerBooks A Short History of Esoteric Christianity
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192 pages John van Schaik
V
Lazarus, Come Forth! an Schaik explores
Meditations of a Christian Esotericist Christian history and
on the Mysteries of the Raising of Lazarus, secret practices at the time
the Ten Commandments, the Three of Jesus. Though it may
disappoint many theorists,
Kingdoms & the Breath of Life
he concludes firmly that
Valentin Tomberg
Jesus and Mary Magdalene were not
Translated by Robert Powell married.
& James Morgante
John van Schaik helped establish
Tspiritual
hese meditations reflect and directs the Origenes Institute in
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A previous edition was titled Cov- From Compostela to the New World
enant of the Heart. Virginia Sease &
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R
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ecently, there has been
$30.00
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in “the Camino,” the pil-
Jesus, Lazarus, and the Messiah
grim’s route to Santiago
Unveiling Three Christian Mysteries de Compostela in north-
Charles S. Tidball ern Spain. The authors
With Robert Powell assert that we live in a
Foreword by Christopher Bamford time of spiritual quest, discovery, and
change and that primal memories are
T
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The New Mysteries
And the Wisdom of Christ
Virginia Sease &
M anfred Schmidt-Brabant
T he authors expand their
previous study, Paths of
the Christian Mysteries,
by drawing attention to
the effect of the “Christ
mysteries.” Some of the
essential themes of this
new volume include the transforma-
tion of conscience, the place of prayer
and meditation, and the significance
of sacrifice today.
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The Trinity
Hans-Werner Schroeder
Translated by Eva Knausenberger
R
ev. Schroeder, a priest of
the Christian Community,
focuses on the issues sur-
rounding the Father God,
the Son God, and the Spirit
God.
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The Mystery of the
Two Jesus Children
And the Descent of the Spirit of the Sun
Bernard Nesfield -Cookson
TtheChristian
he author uses the Bible,
apocrypha,
“Dead Sea Scrolls,”
and other sources, espe-
cially statements by Steiner
to speak of the two Jesus
children. Illustrated.
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The Mystery of John the Baptist
& John the Evangelist at
the Turning Point of Time
An Esoteric Study
Sergei O. Prokofieff
P
rokofieff addresses the
mystery of the “two
Johns,” solving many
unanswered questions.
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The Gospel of St. Mark
Rudolf Steiner
10 lectures, Basel, Sept. 1912 (CW 139)
Introduction by Stewart Easton
A ccording to Steiner, Mark was
especially able to reveal Christ
as a cosmic being of greatness and
power.
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From Jesus to Christ
Rudolf Steiner
11 lectures, Karlsruhe,
Oct. 4–14, 1911 CW 131)
Steiner describes the
problematic aspects of
Christian theology, such
as the resurrection of the
physical body. He empha-
sizes the esoteric path to
Christ and encourages
us to awaken to the new revelation
manifesting in our time—the Christ
as “Lord of Karma.”
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The Lord’s Prayer
An Esoteric Study
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by Judith von Halle
Translated by Pauline Wehrle
4 lectures (CWs 96, 97)
I n these four lectures,
Steiner penetrates the
esoteric significance of the
Lord’s Prayer by relating
the seven petitions in the
prayer to the seven spiri-
tual and physical human
bodies. He also discusses the differ-
ence between prayer and meditation.
This volume features an introduc-
tion by Judith von Halle, whose work
is valued for her experiential knowl-
edge of the Lord’s Prayer and the
events of Christ’s life.
ISBN: 9781855841642
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The Lord’s Prayer
The Living Word of God
Judith von Halle
Translated by Matthew Barton
V
on Halle considers the
historical circumstances
at the time of Christ, the
preparations he made for
passing the prayer on to
others, the prayer’s meaning
to the disciples, and how the Lord’s
Prayer acts as a mediator between
worlds. Moreover, she reflects on the
doxology of the Lord’s Prayer and its
relationship to the Sephiroth Tree.
This slim volume will be of ser-
vice to anyone interested in a deeper
understanding of the Lord’s Prayer
and its meaning for the world.
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And If He Had Not Been Raised...
The Stations of Christ’s Path to Spirit Man “What is Man?” [psalm 8]: Rudolf Steiner,
Judith von Halle
Translated by Brian Strevens
A t Passiontide 2004, Judith von
Halle received the stigmata,
the duplication on her body of the
wounds of Christ. After careful con-
sideration, she decided to share this
event with a small group in Berlin at
Michaelmas that year. Usually, the
stigmata are either seen as a miracle
or simply denied. Based on Rudolf
Steiner’s spiritual-scientific knowl-
edge, the author tries to understand
the phenomenon and its significance
for individual destiny.
Judith von Halle works principally
as a lecturer and author.
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Books by
R e a u gh
Ed w ard
S mi t h
The Burning Bush
Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and the insights escaped attention
Holy Scriptures: An Anthroposophical are finally uncovered by
Commentary on the Bible
This Bible commentary
incorporates the spiritual
insights of Anthroposophy.
Smith combines knowl-
edge of traditional bibli-
cal scholarship with years
of con­centrated study
of Steiner’s works. The
Burning Bush deviates from the nor-
mal commentary mode, pre­senting a ney of humanity and every human
series of essays on terms and phrases soul — each a “beloved sheep” whom
of critical importance to a deeper the Creator is unwilling to lose.
comprehension of the biblical mes-
sage. It includes an extensive bibli­ classic the serious Bible student can
ography of Steiner’s works as well ill afford to ignore.
as numerous charts, diagrams, and
cross references.
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David’s Question
Anthroposophy, and the Holy Scriptures
T
he model for a union of
science and religion is
Steiner’s spiritual science.
By allowing phenom­ena
to speak to us instead
of sinking into abstract
theories, they are seen
as images of the spirit
world—as above, so below.
At the heart of this work are “Fire”
(where Earth and Heaven meet),
“Light” (first form of corporeality
from which all else follows), “Blood”
(meeting point of inner and outer
worlds), and “What Is Man?” (how
beings of the higher worlds form the
earthly vehicle for the human being).
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.The Soul’s Long Journey
How the Bible Reveals Reincarnation
S
mith shows how rein-
carnation is powerfully
revealed in the Bible’s
most fundamental aspects.
How and why have these
for so long? Here they
a confluence of conventional Bible
study and the ground-breaking spiri-
tual discoveries of Rudolf Steiner.
With emphasis on the organic pro-
visions of the Old Testament, Smith
shows both the assumptions of those
who heard Jesus’ words and how the
New Testament confirms the ancient
heritage. Arising from the canon is
an exciting story of the long jour-
Smith has produced a potential
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The Incredible Births of Jesus
S mith brings the
insights he discovered
in Anthroposophy into
the heart of mainstream
Christianity. He focuses
on the Nativity, offering
a way to understand the
signifi­cance of the Bible
as the story of human develop­ment,
from the distant past to the distant
future.
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The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved
Unveiling the Author of John’s Gospel
S mith reveals the identity
of John and Christian
initiation in a new way
that is both suggestive
and conclusive. This
small book is a profound
revolution in this field. If
you wish to understand
more deeply the mystery of Jesus
Christ and his “beloved disci­ple,” this
is must reading.
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Edward Reaugh Smith is
an Illinoisan transplanted
to Texas at mid-century.
He is a husband, father,
and grandfather with
broad interests in life. A
successful lawyer and businessman,
amateur musician, and athlete, his
lifelong search for the deeper meaning
of the Bible—which he taught for over
twenty-five years before discovering
the writings of Steiner—expresses itself
in this extensive work. For more about
this interesting, hard-working author
and his books, please visit his website,
“The Bible and Anthroposophy” (www.
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Books by Emil Bock
Emil Bock (1895–1959) was one of
the foremost theologians of his day in
Germany. He played an important role
in starting The Christian Commu­nity,
the movement for religious renewal, standing of Christian
which he led from 1938 until his festivals. When actively
death.
Kings and Prophets
Saul, David, Solomon, Elijah,
Jonah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah
T he Israelites of the final
pre-Christian millen-
nium were the illumi-
nated center of world
history—a focus for all
human endeavors. Bock
paints a picture of the
Old Testament prophets as guided vides meditations to help us take up
from above by the Christ spirit as this spiritual responsibility.
they prepared the way for his human
incarnation. He also shows how the
prophets can help prepare us to meet
Christ.
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The Apocalypse of Saint John
John’s rich, pictorial lan-
guage is often seen as
harsh and mysterious,
but Bock helps the reader
understand that John
deals with the univer-
sal problems of spiritual
development. This is not merely a
commentary on the Apocalypse, but
a profound examination of human
needs today. Bock shows how we can
read the Revelation to understand
Christ’s position as leader through
danger, now and in the future.
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The Rhythm of the Christian Year The Three Years
Renewing the Religious The Life of Christ between
Cycle of Festivals Baptism & Ascension
Bock explores ways to
deepen our under-
H ere, skeptical read-
ers can rediscover
the healings and miracles
of Christ. Bock adds the
renewed, they can historical and geographi-
heighten our awareness cal background of the
of the Earth as a living Gospels to their spiritual
being and provide new energy for wisdom. He sees the Gospel of John
human society. as the most precise record of Christ’s
Most important, festivals provide three-year ministry, as well as the
opportuni­ties for a new understand- Gospel with the deepest esoteric sig-
ing of the Christian mystery mani- nificance.
festing today—the appearance of ISBN: 0863155359
Christ in the etheric realm. Nature Paperback
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is awaiting redemption through our
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Threefold Mary
Afterword by Michael Debus
ISBN: 0863153089
E
Hardcover mil Bock gave these
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three lectures during
240 pages the 1950/51 Christmas
Saint Paul Holy Nights under the
title “The Mystery of
Life, Epistles, and Teaching
the Virgin Mary in
B
ock’s study gives a
Body, Soul, and Spirit.”
truly spiritual dimen- On November 1, 1950, Pius XII
sion to Paul’s background, had proclaimed the Dogma of the
offering a deeper under-
standing of this great
Christian and his teaching.
Assumption—Mary’s bodily assump-
tion into heaven—which sent shock
waves around the Christian world
He shows that Paul car- at the time. C. G. Jung, for instance,
ried Christianity beyond the Jewish wrote his Answer to Job in response.
communities and to humanity as Bock’s response was these lectures, in
a whole. In his epistles, Paul makes which he tried to answer some of the
it clear that the Law of Moses had issues, while broadening the scope
run its course and that conscience— to include not only the Mary-Sophia
as “inner jurisdiction”—would mystery in human history, but also
replace the externally imposed rules the meaning of the feminine element
and commandments of Mosaic and in the evolu­tion of consciousness.
Judaic laws. ISBN: 088010533x
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The Apocalypse of St. John Genesis The Fifth Gospel

Lectures on the Book of Revelation Secrets of Creation From the Akashic Record
Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner
12 lectures, Nuremberg, 11 lectures, Munich, Aug. 13 lectures, various cities, 1913–1914
June 17–30, 1908 (CW 104) 16–26, 1910 (CW 122) (CW 148)
Introduction by B. Urieli
S teiner shows that the
messages to the seven
Translated by P. Wehrle
F rom his
ant reading of the
clairvoy-

churches and the unseal-
ing of the seven seals must
be understood as an ini-
tiation text. Based on his
initiation and on spiritual
science, Steiner interprets John’s
insights into cosmic and human his-
tory. In this way, the spiritual images
of John’s writing—the twenty-four
elders, the sea of glass, the woman
clothed with the sun, the vials of
wrath, the lamb and the dragon, the
new heaven and the new Earth, and
the number of the beast—all take on
new meaning.
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Esoteric Christianity
And the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
Rudolf Steiner
W ith an intimate
knowledge of his
subject, Steiner brings
S
teiner presents a per- akashic record — or the
spective on creation cosmic memory of all
beyond the polarized argu- events, actions, and
ments between creationists thoughts — Steiner was
and scientific reductionists. able to speak about
He describes the work of aspects of the life of Jesus Christ not
spiritual hierarchies in found in the four biblical Gospels.
Earth’s creation and clarifies the rela- The results of this research have been
tionship between the Elohim and the called the “fifth gospel.” After an
biblical Jehovah. He also discusses intense inner struggle to verify the
themes of light and darkness, the exact nature of these events, and after
meaning of Adam and Eve, the “day checking the results of his research,
of rest,” the stages of human devel­ Steiner described many detailed epi-
opment on Earth, and the special sodes from the akashic record.
character of the Hebrew language. ISBN: 1855840391
Paperback
Includes a previously unpublished Rudolf Steiner Press
introductory lecture on the meaning $24.00
of mystery drama. 264 pages
ISBN: 1855841029
The Christian Book of the Dead
Paperback
Rudolf Steiner Press Accompanying Their Journey after Death
$26.00 M argareet van den Brink
192 pages & Hans Stolp
Necessary Evil
Origin and Purpose
Hans-Werner Schroeder
M any who have had
“near death” expe-
riences tell of a world

D
esoteric, or Rosicrucian, rawing on Rudolf of light, others tell of
Christianity into the light. Steiner’s philosophy, profound encoun­ters
He shows the influence of the author shows that with deceased friends
Christ’s power through the roots of evil lie with and family. Drawing
history, the function and effects of angelic beings. Schroeder on personal experience, the authors
karma, the role of the Buddha and discusses the prehistory describe seven steps into the world
bodhisattvas, and the vital work of of evil in heaven and of light. They also draw on spiritual
Christian Rosenkreutz, Jeshu ben shows how the polarity of two Christian traditions—mostly ignored
Pandira, and more. kinds of evil — with good as the bal- by mainstream Christianity—to offer
ISBN: 1855840839 ance — manifests in earthly history, timely insights into what happens
Paperback
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336 pages nology.
Hawthorn Press
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How Do I Find the Christ?
Rudolf Steiner
1 lecture (CW 182)
H ow does one find the
Christ today? Steiner
emphasizes the importance
of working toward
knowing one’s true self, or
“I” being, the significance
of experiencing powerlessness, and
the eventual resurrection from
powerlessness.
In this important lecture, Steiner
also discusses the ancient Academy
of Gondishapur, the significance of
the year 666, the mission of Islam,
and the crucial consequences of the
Nicaean Council of 869.
ISBN: 1855841932
Paperback
Rudolf Steiner Press
$6.00
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64 pages
The Beginnings of Christianity
Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation,
and the Christian Vision
Andrew Welburn
T he esoteric current of
early Christianity is
reflected in the New
Testament writings of
Mark, Paul, and, above all,
John. Gnostic Christians
tried to preserve this tra-
dition, using the archaic mysteries as
a way to know (gnosis) cosmic truths.
The full scope of the traditions on
which the Gnostics drew is clearer
following the finds at Qumran and
Nag Hammadi. Welburn discovers a
real kinship between today and the
early Christians’ time, showing that
we have the chance to rediscover the
spiritual world and the meaning of
Christian origins.
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Seeing Christ in
Sickness and Healing
Peter Selg
S ometimes we may tend
to forget the larger pur-
pose of healing owing to a
need to focus on the daily
mechanics of healthcare.
Selg shows how anthro-
posophic therapies draw
heavily on the Christian concept of
healing as seen in the Christian Bible.
He suggests that, through medita-
tion, healers and caregivers can allow
the healing power of Christ to work
through them by recognizing that
sickness is part of a person’s destiny
and that healing can help realize the
purpose in one’s life. Nurses, caregiv-
ers, social workers, therapists, coun-
selors, and doctors can all benefit
from this insightful book.
ISBN: 0863154778
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The Bible’s Hidden Cosmology
Gordon Strachan
B y returning to the
principles of ancient
cosmology, that is, how
the biblical writers viewed
the universe, the author
reveals a new under-
standing of the Bible. He
uses the disciplines of music theory,
astronomy and astrology, numerol-
ogy, and sacred geometry to uncover
hidden wisdom and allow the ancient
secrets of the Bible to shine through.
This book gives readers a deeper
understanding of ancient wisdom
traditions and a new respect for the
implicit coding of the Bible.
Includes thirty-five black and white
illustrations
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Chronicle of the Living Christ
The Life & Ministry of Jesus Christ:
Foundations of Cosmic Christianity
Robert Powell
P
owell works with
the visions of Anne
Catherine Emmerich and
the spiritual discoveries of
Rudolf Steiner to establish
the dates of daily events
in the life of Jesus Christ.
He gives a historical overview, then,
using esoteric sources and sidereal
astrology, he offers insights into the
birth of Christ. He also gives a daily
chronicle of the three-and-a-half–
year ministry of Jesus, dating the
events with an unprecedented accu-
racy. He correlates signifi­cant events
in Christ’s life with future dates.
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The Ninth Century &
the Holy Grail
Walter Johannes Stein
Introduction by John Matthews
T his study of Parzival
by Wolfram von
Eschenbach offers
ground-breaking insights
into the mystery of the
Grail. Stein searches
historical records and
identifies individuals and events and
reveals Eschen­bach’s spiritual mes-
sages.
Includes an index and thirty-eight
pages of illustrations.
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Give Us This Day
The Story of Prayer
Rufus Goodwin
Foreword by Robert Sardello
G oodwin examines
many different tradi-
tions of prayer. He gets at
the essential technique and
the attitude of prayer—its
cognitive working. Prayer
may be seen as a key to
one’s active inner life and one’s expe-
rience of the higher self. He shows
us how prayer can bring about a
cognitive restructuring that provides
greater access to renewal, imagina-
tion, inspiration, and intuition, while
also providing an anchor and mean-
ing in daily life.
Rufus Goodwinserved as a for-
eign correspondent assigned to the
Vatican to cover the first papal trip
by Pope Paul vi to the Holy Land in
1964. He wrote several books, includ-
ing Dreamlife: How Dreams Hap-
pen (2004) and Who Killed the Holy
Ghost? A Journalist Reports on the
Holy Spirit (2005), both published
by Lindisfarne Books. Mr. Goodwin
died in 2005.
ISBN: 0940262967
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Fingal’s Cave
the Poems of Ossian, and Celtic
Christianity
Paul M. Allen & Joan deRis Allen
O n the isolated island
of Staffa, near Iona,
Scot­land, stands a natu-
ral wonder—Fingal’s
Cave, an extraordinary
Cathedral-like space,
whose sides and roof are
hexagonal basaltic columns and its
floor the ocean, playing constantly
music with the tides. The cave has
been a source of spiritual insight
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and artistic inspiration for centuries.
To understand Fingal’s influence in
Celtic culture, we must understand
his poems of Ossian and the develop-
ment of Celtic Christianity.
The authors show why his works
have influenced such diverse figures
as Mendelssohn, Jefferson, Napo-
leon, and Turner.
Illustrated.
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Hardcover
Continuum
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The Hope of the World
Contemplations and Aphorisms
Rudolf Frieling
Compiled by Werner Bril
T his collection helps the
soul to contemplate
the presence of the risen
Christ and to experience
the peace and power of
certainty. This collection is thus a
signpost to a new understanding
of Christianity. Alongside his basic a special emphasis on the Gospel of
theological works, Rudolf Frieling Matthew.
left a large body of essays from which
Werner Bril has gathered and selected
this important material.
Rudolf Frieling (1901–1986) was
a founder of The Christian Commu-
nity and, from 1960 until his death,
was its leader. He wrote several books The Way of St. John the Evangelist
on Christianity and the Bible.
ISBN: 0863153445
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Jesus, the Master Builder
Druid Mysteries & the Dawn of Christianity
Gordon Strachan
The author uncovers
fascinating interconnec-
tions between the Celtic
and Mediterranean cul-
tures and philosophies.
Taking the biblical image
of “wisdom as master craftsman,”
Strachan explores the deep layers of
Mystery knowledge shared by the
world of Jews and Greeks and that of
the northern Druids-using the secret
geometry of masons and builders,
which Jesus would have encountered
in his work as a craftsman in Pales-
tine, as well as the biblical Gematria,
or numeric encryption.
Gordon Strachan teaches in the
Department of Architecture and
Centre for Continuing Education at
the University of Edinburgh.
ISBN: 0863152953
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Deeper Secrets in Human History
In the Light of the
Gospel of St. Matthew
Rudolf Steiner
3 lectures, Berlin, Nov. 1–23, 1909
(CW 117)
S
teiner examines the four aspects
of Christ in the four Gospels, with
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Becoming Aware of the Logos
Georg Kühlewind
T his volume places the
reader in the world of
living thinking and cog-
nitive love. It teaches the
way of grace and truth
in a radical, original
manner. For the Logos,
although it is the ground of any true
logic, is beyond ordinary dia­lectic.
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Gnosis of Christian Rosenkreutz and other The Mystery of Arthur at Tintagel

The Mysteries & Christianity: An Anthology of historical figures such as Jeshu ben Richard Seddon
Essene, Gnostic & Christian Writings Pandira. This book features clas-
Andrew Welburn
sic lectures such as “Facing Karma,”
“The Death of a God and Its Fruits in T
his book distinguishes
clearly the substance

T he Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Humanity,” “The Etherization of the of the Arthurian myster-
Hammadi, and other Blood,” “Faith, Love, Hope,” and ies, which originated in
early texts have shed new “Cosmic Ego and Human Ego.” Brit­a in in pre-Christian
light on the emerging faith ISBN: 1855840839 times, from that of the
of the first Christians. They Paperback Grail, which came from
Rudolf Steiner Press the East at the time of Christ.
reveal that early Christians
$30.00 ISBN: 0854404368
drew inspiration from a 336 pages Paperback
number of sources — Judaic tradition,
From Christianity to Christ Rudolf Steiner Press
the Essenes, and other gnostic sects. $22.95
Welburn presents the most important
Christianity as the Essence of Humanity in
196 pages
early texts, along with commentary. Rudolf Steiner’s Science of the Spirit
The Holy Grail & the Eucharist
ISBN: 0863151833 Pietro Archiati
Hardcover Sergei Bulgakov
Floris Books
$50.00
304 pages
B ased on Steiner’s state-
ment that Christianity
“started as a religion but
Introduction by Fr. Robert Slesinski
Afterwords by Constantin Andronikof
& Caitlin Matthews
The Cosmic Christ is greater than all reli-
Hans-Werner Schroeder gions,” the author takes
us from the “all-too- T he eminent Orthodox
theologian and sophiolo­

S chroeder summarizes
the cosmic dimen-
sion of Christ in the
human” Christianity
to “Christian” Christianity and its
gist discusses the Holy
Grail, the chalice used
by Joseph of Arimathea
future develop­ment through spiritual
New Testament and the science. to catch Jesus’ blood and
development of human ISBN: 090469383x water as it flowed from his
consciousness in relation Paperback side when it was pierced by the spear
to the Logos, examin- Temple Lodge of Longinus. His essay on John 19:34
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128 pages
ral, conscious relationship with the human uni­verse, is the Grail wherein
Christ. How Can Mankind Find Christ lives forever.
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Time and the New Light of Christ $14.95
256 pages Rudolf Steiner 160 pages
Esoteric Christianity 8 lectures, Dornach, Religion
And the Mission of Dec. 1918–Jan. 1919 (CW 187) An Introductory Reader

Christian Rosenkreutz
Rudolf Steiner
23 lectures, 1911–1912 (CW 130)
Foreword by Marie Steiner
S
teiner says that we can take Rudolf Steiner
“spiritual thoughts and cosmic Edited by Andrew Welburn
powers” into our souls, not as theo-
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Steiner had to say on religion.

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The Voice of the Eagle The Twelve Holy Nights and looks at the different forms
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Scotus Eriugena’s Homily on the Prologue higher bodies.
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J ohn Scotus Eriugena
was born and raised in
Ire­land during the early
they form a path from
Jesus to Christ and that
Christ and the Son
Wilhelm Kelber
of Man

C
the starry script is a key to hrist called himself
ninth century. Neither
anthroposophic Christology and to “the Son of Man,” a
monk nor priest but
the first Goetheanum. title that has never been
a “holy sage,” he car-
ried the flower of Celtic ISBN: 1902636619 fully explained. Kelber,
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The Reappearance of sacred literature.
Celtic Christian wisdom. Christopher
Christ in the Etheric ISBN: 0863152511
Bam­ford’s reflections “unpack”
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ISBN: 0970109709 The New Testament
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T his collection gathers
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The New Spirituality
Second Coming of Christ.
And the Christ Experience
of the Twentieth Century
Rudolf Steiner
7 lectures, Dornach, Oct. 1920
(CW 200)
ISBN: 0880105194
M adsen, a priest of the Christian
Commu­nity, has attempted to
recover the overtones and subtleties
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S teiner traces the development of $29.50

consciousness and the human soul
through history and describes the
need for new methods of inner devel-
Rudolf Steiner
Translation revised by M. St. Goar New Testament Studies
Rudolf Frieling
14 lectures, Kassel, June 24–July 7,

F
1909 (CW 112) rieling brings alive the events of
opment if we are to perceive spiritual
Christ’s life and shows how the
realities today. He tells us how new
forces of spiritual perception are S
teiner offers insights into the truths
behind the Christ event, leading
awak­ing, through which humanity up to the turning point in time.
Gospels can be directly related to the
events and problems of everyday life.
will perceive the activity of Christ in He con­cludes with a consideration of
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An Introductory Reader
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Matthew Barton
I n this introductory reader,
Barton collects excerpts
from Steiner’s many talks
and writings on Easter. It
also features an editorial
introduction, afterword,
commentary, and notes.
Chapters:
1. Can we Celebrate Easter?
2. The Earth and the Cosmos
3. Rising Sun
4. Nature and Resurrection
5. Golgotha, the Central Deed of
Evolution
6. Easter, a Festival for the
Future
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Whitsun and Ascension
An Introductory Reader
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Matthew Barton
In this introductory
reader, Matthew Barton
collects excerpts from
Steiner’s many talks and
writings on the festivals of
Whitsun and Ascension. It
also features an editorial
introduction, afterword, commen-
tary, and notes. Chapters:
1. Rising to the Clouds, Tethered tual entity who works in
to Earth
2. Suffering’s Open Door
3. All One to Alone to One in humanity “the new revelation of the
All
4. Human Freedom and the
Word
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S o phia S t u di e s
St. John’s
An Introductory Reader
Rudolf Steiner
Collected by Matthew Barton
I
n this introductory
reader, Matthew Barton
collects excerpts from
Steiner’s talks and writ-
ings on the festival of
St. John’s Tide. It also
features an editorial introduction, the most sublime Gnostic
afterword, commentary, and notes. texts, and discusses it in
Chapters:
1. Midsummer Dream, the Earth how Sophia’s story tells of our sepa-
Breathes Out
2. Finding the Greater Self
3. “He Must Increase, I Must Violet MacDermot studied Egyp-
Decrease”
4. Creating Vision
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Sophia Studies
The Heavenly Sophia and
the Being Anthroposophia
Sergei O. Prokofieff
Translated by Simon Blaxland de
Lange
P rokofieff shows that the
being Anthroposophia
is not merely a poetic
image or an abstract con-
cept, but an actual spiri-
the higher worlds to ben-
efit earthly evolution and bring to
heavenly Sophia, the divine wisdom.”
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The Fall of Sophia
A Gnostic Text on the
Redemption of Universal Consciousness
Violet M acDermot
Foreword by Stephan A. Hoeller
I
n this profound yet acces-
sible work, Egyptologist
Violet MacDermot gives
us a fresh translation of
the Pistis Sophia, one of
its historical setting. She also shows
ration and isolation as a result of “I”
consciousness. .
tology at University College, London,
and was a board member of the Egypt
Exploration Society.
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Pistis Sophia
A Gnostic Gospel
G. R. S. Mead
T his translation was the
most influential of all
Gnostic studies before
the discovery of the Nag
Hammadi library.
Include: Documents
& General Lit­erature of
Gnosticism; Probable History of the
Treatise; Jesus Hitherto Instructeth
His Disciples Only up to the Region
of the First Mystery; Trea­sure of
Light; Confusion of the Powers &
the Great Earthquake; Mystery of
the Five Words on the Vesture; and
more.
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Isis Mary Sophia
Her Mission and Ours
Rudolf Steiner
Edited and introduced by Christopher
Bamford
T he feminine divine has
had many names, and
Rudolf Steiner calls her
Anthroposophia, who
descended from the spiri­
tual world and passed
through humanity to
become the archetype of human wis­
dom in the cosmos.
Each chapter explores the mys-
tery of the different relationships of
Sophia: Sophia and Isis, Sophia and
the Holy Spirit, Sophia and Mary,
the mother of Jesus (and Mary
Magdalene), Sophia and the Gnostic
Achamod, and Sophia and the New
Isis.
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Myth of the Nativity
The Virgin Birth Re-examined
Andrew Welburn
W elburn states that
we must re-imagine
the events of the virgin
birth through the eyes of
the Gospel writers. He
explores many parallel
stories and prototypical
characters drawn from the ancient
traditions of Judaism, Persia, Egypt,
and Rome—all of which could have
been known to the early Christian
writers. Stories of unusual children
with mysterious parenthood have, in
fact, long inspired human beliefs and
storytelling, and most of this has been
lost to modern exoteric Christianity
and theology.
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The Sophia Teachings
The Emergence of the Divine Feminine in
Our Time
Robert Powell
P owell uncovers a secret
stream of wisdom flow-
ing through the heart of
Christianity: the feminine
principle known in Greek
as “Sophia,” or the being
of Holy Wisdom herself.
This sacred embodiment, named in
the Old Testament as the first living
being made by God, has comforted
and guided seekers of truth in every
age and in every human culture.
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The Most Holy Trinosophia
& the New Revelation of the Divine
Feminine
Robert Powell
Introduction by Carol E. Parrish-Harra
R obert Powell suggests
that Western civiliza-
tion is making a long-
term, radical shift toward
conscious incor­poration
of Sophianic wisdom.
Sophia is inter­preted as
a Trinity—Mother, Daughter, and
Holy Soul—as well as the femi-
nine aspect of the Divine Godhead.
Powell also draws on the teaching
of the Sophianic Russian philoso-
pher Pavel Florensky, and on the
work of the modern Russian mystic
Daniel Andreev, author of The Rose
of The World, who beheld the Divine
Sophia’s gradual approach to the
Earth.
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Sophia
The Wisdom of God
Sergei Bulgakov
B ulgakov shows how
the Divine Sophia, in
whom all things are cre-
ated, is present in the Holy
Trinity itself and how, as
the “creaturely Sophia,”
she works together with
her divine counterpart in the work of
the Holy Spirit for the redemption of
the world.
Sergei Bulgakov (1879–1944), fol-
lowing in the footsteps of Vladimir
Solovyov and Pavel Florensky, began
to develop a profound and original
vision of Sophia.
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The Archetypal Feminine in the
Mystery Stream of Humanity
Towards a New Culture of the Family
M anfred Schmidt-Brabant
& Virginia Sease
T he authors maintain that,
during ancient times,
people saw the spirit world
populated by goddesses
and thus honored women
as priestesses and guard-
ians of sacred rites. The
Greeks and Romans, by contrast,
were patriarchal. More recently, we
have seen an emancipation of the
feminine, but patriarchy still domi-
nates our Western culture.
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Lectures on Divine Humanity It is also important to The Illustrated

Vladimir Solovyov bring the past into the Calendar of the Soul
present by invoking Meditations for the Yearly Cycle
S olovyov views
Sophia in a variety of
ways—as the eternal ideal
the great beings in the evo-
lution of consciousness
Rudolf Steiner
Images by Anne Stockton
on their appropriate
prototype of humanity, Translated by John Thomson
birth or death days, and
as the world soul actively
T
to celebrate the Holy his edition features
engaged in actualizing Days. Anne Stockton’s fifty-
this idea, and as the fully Steiner designed new zodiacal two celebrated and evoca-
developed divine-human being. This images for each month, traced the
tive paintings, a wonder-
Sophia is both the active principle in phases of the moon, and specified
ful complement to the
the process of creation and its real- significant people, events, and/or fes-
text. John Thomson has
ized goal: the kingdom of God. tivals for each day. By living into the translated Steiner’s words especially
ISBN: 0940262673 year in this way, one is ready for the for this edition.
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Calendar of the Soul And the Seven Liberal Arts
Calendar of the Soul
Rudolf Steiner Sergei O. Prokofieff
The Year Participated
Introduction by Hans Pusch
Translation by Hans and Ruth Pusch
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Owen Barfield I n this small book, Prokofieff offers
his ideas for establishing a connec-
tion between the various arts, the
Written 1912 (CW 40)

T his durable, pocket-sized

hardcover volume also
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a unique and useful way to
approach the Calendar of the Soul.
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Calendar 1912–1913
Facimile edition of the original book
containing the calendar created by
Rudolf Steiner for the year 1912–1913
Rudolf Steiner
(CW 40)
S teiner discusses the calendar as a
means to connect past and future
as well as Earth and cosmos. It is
important to get a sense of the move-
ments of the Sun and Moon in rela-
tion to the planets and fixed stars.
T hese meditative verses
for each week of the
year help awaken a feel-
cycle of the seasons and the festivals.
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Barfield’s pioneering translation of the Christ Being
based on more than fifty years study- Sergei O. Prokofieff
ing this text. As Barfield asserts, no
simple translation can convey the
real thrust of these verses. Because
Prokofieff discusses the
esoteric realities of the
seven Christian festivals
of this, he tries to “suggest” rather
and shows that they are
than simply reproduce the original in
spiritual facts that exist indepen-
exact English translations.
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The Easter Festival Secrets of the Skeleton Foundations of

in the Evolution of the Mysteries Form in Metamorphosis Anthroposophical Medicine
Rudolf Steiner L. F. C. Mees, M.D. A Training Manual
4 lectures, Dornach, April 1924
D r. Mees discovers Guus van der Bie
(CW 233a) & M achteld Huber, editors
numerous intrigu-

S teiner leads us to an understanding ing correspondences

of the true meaning of Easter— of form, especially
perhaps the most significant of the between bones of the
A comprehensive textbook for doc-
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Nutrition, Health
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Beyond the Medical Meltdown
Working together for
Sustainable Health Care
Robert Zieve, m.d.
D r. Zieve shows that
W
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Robert J. Zieve, m.d., practices
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n the 1920s, the physi- Paperback
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Americas. developed a unique approach to
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Foundations of Curative Eurythmy The Biodynamic Food & Handbook for

M argarete Kirchner-Bockholt Cookbook Rhythmical Einreibungen
Real Nutrition that Doesn’t Cost the Earth According to Wegman / Hauschka
B ased on Steiner’s 1921
lectures on the topic, Wendy E. Cook Monica L ayer, editor

I T
Dr. Kirchner-Bockholt llustrated with his clear, comprehensive
published the basic prin- hundreds of color manual is intended for
ciples of therapeutic photographs, The all those who wish to use
eurythmy along with Biodynamic Food & rhythmical Einreibungen,
Steiner’s advice on its use. Cookbook explains the whether professionally or
Previous edition: Fundamentals principles behind bio- as a thorough introduc-
Principles of Curative Eurythmy dynamic methods and tion to this effective heal-
Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt places it in the context ing method.
was a medical doctor and eurythmist. of food and cooking through the ISBN: 9781902636764
She worked with Rudolf Steiner, ages. Cook includes more than 150 Paperback
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An Introduction to
Anthroposophical Medicine
Extending the Art of Healing
Victor Bott, m.d.
D r. Bott presents a new
approach to under-
standing various types of
ing that brings together body and Extending Practical Medicine
soul and helps them function in effec- Fundamental Principles Based on
tive and powerful ways. the Science of the Spirit
A previous revious edition was
Rudolf Steiner & Ita Wegman
titled Pastoral Medicine
Written 1925 (CW 27)
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diseases and discusses the

increasing prevalence of
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Friedrich Husemann, m.d. allopathic medicine. As Ita Wegman
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Healthy Medicine developmental disor-
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A Guide to the Emergence of Sensible, ders and childhood dis-
perception of the spirit, enabling us
Comprehensive Care eases, followed by an in-
to understand the processes of illness
Robert Zieve, m.d. depth exploration of the
and healing.”
polarity of inflammation,

D r. Zieve presents a new sclero­sis, and the pathol- Dr. Ita Wegman (1876–1943) was
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Foreword by Michael Lipson, Ph.D. babies; and caring for children when Medicine
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S teiner suggests ways

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Dr. Wilhelm zur Linden is a pedi-
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Gold & the Philosopher’s Stone
Treating Chronic Physical &
Mental Illness with Mineral Remedies
Peter Grünewald, m.d.
G rünewald exam-
ines the spiritual
aspects of using mineral
remedies used to treat
chronic physi­cal, neuro-
logical, developmental,
emotional, behavioral,
and mental conditions and illnesses.
Dr. Peter Grünewald is a general
prac­titioner and medical adviser for
people with special needs. He has
studied and prac­ticed anthropo-
sophic medicine for more than six-
teen years.
ISBN: 1902636317
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Iscador
Mistletoe and Cancer Therapy
Sophia Christine Murphy, editor
A s early as 1917, Steiner
suggested treating
cancer with injec­tions of
mistletoe extract. Murphy
gathers the work of doc-
tors and clinicians who
have been using Iscador.
Dr. Rich­ard Wagner answers ques-
tions his patients have asked about
Iscador. Dr. Thomas Schuerholz, a Medicine, Mythology & Spirituality
cancer specialist, offers an overview
of the terms, procedures, and various
approaches to cancer.
Christine Murphy specializes in
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Blessed by Illness
L. F. C. Mees
T he author traces the
history of our changing
concept of healing, from
the so-called temple sleep
of ancient Egypt—when
spiritual science tells us
that human beings still
had a living connec-
tion with the spiritual hierarchies—
through the herbal lore of ancient
Greece and the healings of Christ, to
the rise of modern medicine, based
primarily on treating symptoms.
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The Vaccination Dilemma
Sophia Christine Murphy
M urphy describes the
immune system,
how it works, and the
state of scientific knowl-
edge on the subject. She
offers suggestions and
resources for parents
whose children are sick and makes a
case for the alternate view of disease.
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Recollecting the Past
and Willing the Future
Ralph Twentyman
T
wentyman places the
problems of modern
sciousness and the mod-
ern crisis of selfhood and
community. He relates
this to today’s tragically common
experience of loneliness in relation
to the experience of individuality. In
contrast, he points to the dawning
vision of humankind as a “true being”
itself — a living organism. The ill-
nesses that characterize our time are
looked at within the context of these
birth pangs of a new era of evolution
and consciousness.
ISBN: 1855841827
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The Harmony of the Human Body
Musical Principles in Human Physiology
Armin Husemann, m.d.
H
usemann applies
musical principles
as a method of gaining
insight into the struc-
ture of the human body
and the forces that work
on it, seeking to use our
experience of music to explain the
physiological and anatomical rela­
tionships in the body and the spiri-
tual influences that determine physi-
cal development.
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Medicine
An Introductory Reader
Rudolf Steiner
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teiner’s topics include
true human nature as
a basis for medical prac-
tice; the science of know-
ing; reverence; the four
temperaments; the supra-
sensory bodies; the invisible human
within us: the pathology underlying
therapy; cancer and mistletoe, and
aspects of psychiatry; case history
questions: diagnosis and therapy;
anthroposophic medicine in practice:
and three case histories.
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A Slice of Life An Occult Physiology Water, Electricity & Health

A Personal Story of Rudolf Steiner Protecting Yourself from Electrostress
Healing through Cancer at Home and Work
Lee Sturgeon-Day D espite advances in mod-
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ourteen years ago, the are vast areas of human his is his fascinating journey of
author was diagnosed physiological activity that discovery into the nature of water
with breast cancer and chose anthro- remain undetectable to as the bearer of life and a carrier of
posophic medicine. In this account conventional scientific death. His discovery of biody­namic
of her illness and healing, she writes observation. Those pro- fields is applied to countering the
vividly and clearly of all she learned cesses, according to Rudolf Steiner, harmful effects of electromagnetic
through her experience. are related to spiritual forces and fields.
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Dr. Geoffrey Douch cess implicit in the formation of the Dr. Silke Helwig, a
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T his book provides a con-
cise overview of the phi-
losophy of anthroposophic
entific approach that will appeal to
doctors and therapists, as well as stu-
Clinic, offers suggestions
for healthy eating; brief
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medicine. It is a useful are also remarkably accessible to the diet; and a questionnaire
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Biographical Issues Friends and Lovers Phases

Working through Relationships The Spiritual Rhythms in Adult Life
Biographical Work Julian Sleigh Bernard Lievegoed
A Handbook for Practitioners
Gudrun Burkhard,
Translated by Christina D’Agostino
F riendship, love, mar-
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his classic bestseller
each phase
life — adolescence, the
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steps that practitioners at the inner qualities and
should follow. These are which, for many men
challenges that arise with
based on seven-year cycles and women, social and
each stage.
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Women Working, Caring, Sharing Illnesses of the Soul
therapist, and author in Brazil, where Rudolf Treichler
cofounded the Tobias Clinic and Noragh Jones
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Soul & Spirit
From Normal to Healthy
Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness
Georg Kühlewind
Translated by Michael Lipson, Ph.D.
T his practical guide to
the self-healing of con-
sciousness—it is both
spiritual psychology and
a contemporary manual
for the inner life—begins
by laying out very clearly
the unhealthy, unfree state of today’s
consciousness.
Attention and practice of the
author’s exercises begins to expand
one’s range of possible understanding
and action. The exercises are based
on the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold
Path and Rudolf Steiner’s cognitive
spiritual path. They lead to a new life
in which superconscious intuitions
gradually take the place of supercon-
scious formations.
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Facing the World with Soul
The Reimagination of Modern Life
Robert Sardello
B eginning with the myth
of Sophia, or “Soul
of the World,” Sardello
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world is filled with her
presence. He goes on to
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mary aspects constitute a surrender and the Soul.
of subjective states to the conscious-
ness that is the soul of the world. He
shows how we can begin to approach
daily life in a new way by practicing
these arts. The chapters that follow
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How Wide the Heart The Meaning of Love
The Roots of Peace Vladimir Solovyov
in Palestine and Israel Introduction by Owen Barfield
M arko Pogacnik &
Ana Pogacnik
W hat is the meaning of
love’s intense emo-
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tion? Solovyov points to
the spark of divinity that
we see in another human
identity of the Holy Land. being and shows how this
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Steiner on the formation Anthroposophical Psychology
of a spiritual culture, Love and the
World establishes a ground of hope,
William Bento
B
as well as a radically fresh direction ento looks at the human body,
for psychology—one concerned with soul, and spirit and the way the
what we can be, rather than what has environment of physical phenomena,
influenced us from the past. life forces, and spirit beings affects us
This is a revised edition of Love as individuals. Going well beyond our
immediate, earthly surroundings, the
author considers the cosmic effects
Robert Sardello, ph.d., has been
of sun, planets and stars, offering a
a practicing psychotherapist for over
holistic view of the human soul.
twenty years, working in existential,
William R. Bento lectures and
Jungian, and archetypal psychologies.
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Star Children
Understanding Children Who Set Us
Special Tasks and Challenges
Georg Kühlewind
M uch has been written
about “gifted” chil-
dren with special abilities,
sometimes called “indigo
children,” or “crystal chil-
dren.” It is said that these
children are coming to Earth to help
humanity in its development. Based
on extensive research, Kühlewind
confirms that this new generation
has been incarnating among us for
the past two decades.
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Man on the Threshold
The Challenge of Inner Development
Bernard Lievegoed
TSeeds
he theme of this book
is inner development.
for growth, hid-
den within each person,
are described along with
maps and guidelines for
either those on an inner journey or
people wishing to work therapeuti-
cally with others.
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Our Twelve Senses
Wellsprings of the Soul
Albert Soesman
S oesman explores the twelve
senses: touch, life, self-movement,
balance, smell, taste, vision, tem­
perature, hearing, language, concept,
and the “I.”
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S o u l & S piri t
A Psychology of
Body, Soul & Spirit
Anthroposophy, Psychosophy,
Pneumatosophy
Rudolf Steiner
12 lectures, 1909–1911 (CW 115)
Introduction by Robert Sardello
T hese three lecture
courses offer a precise
understanding of the
human soul in relation to
the senses and the subtle
processes that form the
human body; focus the
human soul; and portray the rela-
tionship of soul to spirit.
Previous edition: Wisdom of Man,
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Sleep and Dreams
A Bridge to the Spirit
Rudolf Steiner
Introduction by
Michael Lipson, Ph.D.
These lectures, selected
and introduced by
Michael Lipson, pro-
vides a unique way of
approaching dreams,
based on an understand-
ing of the spiritual in
human nature. The reader is offered
a radically new view of dreams “as
the threshold to spiritual reality”—
knowledge that physical existence
is just the tip of an iceberg hidden
mostly in the spiritual world.
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The Speech of the Grail
A Journey toward Speaking
that Heals and Transforms
Linda Sussman
U sing von Eschenbach’s
epic story of the Grail,
Sussman describes a path to healing
speech—to truth in word and action.
Linda Sussman teaches storytelling
and mythology.
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Understand Your Temperament!
A Guide to the Four Temperaments
Gilbert Childs
D r. Childs offers a
refreshing treatment of
the ancient doctrine of the
four temperaments — the
choleric, sanguine, phleg-
matic, and melancholic
types.
ISBN: 1855840251
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Children and Their Temperaments
M arieke Anscüutz
T
hrough her experience
of working with chil-
dren, Anschütz provides
a guide to children’s
temperaments and their
role in the development
of character, health, and
personality.
Marieke Anschütz is the author of
But Who Made God? Religion and
Your Growing Child and Children
and Their Temperaments.
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 Ec o n o mic
Economic Renewal
& Social Issues
Revisioning Society and Culture
Classic” Articles from The Journal for
Anthroposophy
Issue # 77, spring 2007
Douglas M. Sloan, editor
Series editor Robert McDermott
TourSteiner
hroughout his life,
stressed that
most crucial task for
today is to transform our
usual ways of viewing
the world by developing
the capacity for knowing
spirit. These articles rein-
force and amplify that point.
ISBN: 9780967456263
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Growing Eco -Communities
Practical Ways to Create Sustainability
Jan M artin Bang
I n Ecovillages, his
first book, Jan Bang
explained the principles
and practice of estab-
lishing a sustainable
community. Here, he looks at what
comes next. The author provides an
overview of the changes that groups
can experience and offers seasoned
advice on how to handle situations
that can arise. As in Ecovillages,
this book uses numerous case stud-
ies of real-life communities and how
they’ve dealt with change.
Jan Martin Bang has spent a life-
time working in alternative commu-
nities, from kibbutz in Israel to his
present home in the Solborg Camp-
hill community in Norway. He leads
training and development for new
ecovillage projects around the world.
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Conversation
A New Theory of Language
Carl H. Flygt
Foreword by Madison Smartt Bell
F lygt asserts that the
phenomenon of con-
versation has an objec-
tively treatable structure
and, as such, can be held
to standards that not only
can awaken human clair-
voyance, but can also liberate the
emotions and the spiritual will and
contribute to a cultural background
that makes real community into
an explicit and fundamental social
value.
Carl H. Flygt is an anthroposophic
psychologist living near San Fran-
cisco.
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Money Can Heal
Evolving Our Consciousness
The Story of RSF
and Its Innovations in Social Finance
Siegfried E. Finser
E xploring the wonders
of every kind of mone-
tary transaction, Siegfried
Finser reveals how all
transactions interact
with the human psyche.
Having evolved through
the ages, money is no longer an object
so much as a “worldwind” of circu-
lation, moving at various speeds and
achieving a myriad of results.
Siegfried Finser RSF, where he
serves on the Board of Trustees. He
has held numerous corporate posi-
tions and writes and lectures.
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I ss u e s
Organizational Integrity
How to Apply the Wisdom of the Body to
Develop Healthy Organizations
Torin M. Finser, ph.d.
D r. Finser makes the
case that we need a
new ecology of organi-
zations. Moreover, he
shows us how to achieve
this seemingly impossi-
ble task by “organ-izing”
organizations and transforming
organizations into living systems that
serve and protect human interests.
Torin M. Finser, ph.d., is Director
of the Waldorf Teacher Education
Program at Antioch University New
England and founding member of the
Center for Anthroposophy, Collabor-
ative Leadership Training, and Tem-
plar Associates in New Hampshire.
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Sekem
A Sustainable Community
in the Egyptian Desert
Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish
Illustrator Markus Kirchgessner
S
ekem has grown
strong and prosper-
ous during the past thirty
years, both economically
and socially. This is the
story of this vigorous
community—the origi-
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work, and the eventual successes—
in founder Ibrahim Abouleish’s own
words.
Illustrated in color.
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The Olive and the Tree
The Secret Strength of the Druze
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
& Gil Sedan
of confrontation by seizing “golden The Esoteric Aspect
moments” and strengthening empa- of the Social Question
thy; and much more. The Individual and Society
Dr. Friedrich Glasl is a recog- Rudolf Steiner
nized authority on methods of con-

B ased on a documen- 4 lectures, 1919 (CW 193)

flict resolution.

S
tary of the same title, ISBN: 186989071x teiner presents his inner,
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nal ways of organizing
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Westerners. Homemaking as a Social Art social issues. Includes a
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer earned Creating a Home for Body, Soul & Spirit previously unpublished
a doctorate from Columbia Univer- Veronika van Duin lecture.
sity in the Interdisciplinary Study of
S
ocial and economic Previous translation: The Inner
the Family. She has initiated several Aspect of the Social Question.
books and documentary films inves- pressures today affect
the traditional role of ISBN: 1855840642
tigating the family and teaches semi- Paperback
nars at Yale and Princeton. This is homemaking. Emphasis
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roles. Taking a spiritual
The Challenge of the Times
Lantern Books Rudolf Steiner
perspective inspired by Rudolf Steiner,
$20.00
160 pages the author suggests that homemaking 6 lectures, Dornach, Nov.–Dec. 1918
needs to be undertaken consciously (CW 186)
America’s Global Responsibility as an honored and valued area of
Jesaiah (Yeshayahu ) Ben-Aharon work — as nothing less than a “social
art.” I n these lectures, Steiner describes
developments in mechanics, poli-

T he author reminds us
of the founding vision
of the United States and
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lasl explores moral
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A First-Aid Kit for Handling Conflict
Friedrich Glasl
grow through the pioneer,
differ­entiated, integrated,
and associative phases of
Zcisesimmermann writes about group
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T he author presents the tools to ana- development.
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Male and Female Social and Political Science Vision in Action

Developing Human Empathy
Baruch Luke Urieli
T he author examines
T
mythology and the
An Introductory Reader Working with Soul & Spirit
Rudolf Steiner in Small Organizations
Edited by Stephen Usher Christopher Schaefer
& Tÿno Voors
opics include: psychological cogni-

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Judaeo-Christian tradi- tion; the social question; the social chaefer and Voors have
tion in terms of the sex question and theosophy; Memoranda been active for years in
and gender issues today. of 1917; the metamorphosis of intel- community and organiza-
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“empathy” as a guide for and Central Europe between East created this guide for those
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The Renewal of the Social Towards Social Renewal
Organism
Rudolf Steiner
F loride develops a path
to commu­nity and
shows how we can make
Rethinking the Basis of Society
Rudolf Steiner
26 essays, written 1919–1920 (CW 24) everyday more sacred Written 1919 (CW 23)
through awareness of
T hese essays cover a range
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past and future karma in
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Sits teiner suggests that society has
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M argarete Brink
T S
he author shows how van den
teiner shows that today’s political,

Tis hegrowth
the four great mystery economic, and social problems author shows that the process of
streams have worked in are symptoms of our faulty think- through the seven phases
the past and how Steiner ing. In a very accessible way, Steiner essentially a process of spiritual
joined them to create describes how spiritual science and development. Her approach offers
the new mysteries at the the kind of thinking it fosters can a new and dynamic way forward in
Christ­mas Foundation lead to a renewal of society and to contrast to most of the ‘rationalist’
Meeting. true freedom for individuals. methodologies of mainstream con-
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A Vision for the Millennium
Modern Spirituality and Cultural Renewal
Rudolf Steiner
Edited by Andrew Welburn
T his collection includes
commentary on the sig-
nificance of the coming
transformation of all areas
of life, the importance of
“spiritual ecology,” the
transfiguration of Earth,
and the roles of spirit beings today.
Rudolf Steiner Press
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The Personal World
John Macmurray on Self and Society
Philip Conford
M acmurray argues that we must
begin with the living reality of
being a human being in the world,
maintaining that the self exists
through action and mutuality, and author brings to life an
not in isolation as a mere observer.
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Biography
Owen Barfield
Romanticism Come of Age; A Biography
Simon Blaxland -de L ange
Foreword by Andrew Welburn
T he author studies the
influences on Barfield
by the Romantic poet
Coleridge and the philoso-
pher Rudolf Steiner, while
also focusing on Barfield’s
profound personal con-
nection with C. S. Lewis.
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The Builders of Camphill Evelyn Francis Capel
Lives and Destinies of the Founders A Celebration of a Pioneering Spirit
Friedwart Bock Various Authors
T his is the story of
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menting how those pio- become a priest in the Christian
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A Measure of Endurance
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William Mishler
S teven Sharp, a hard-
working, was seriously
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William Mishler retired from the
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extensively. He died in 2002.
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Frances Farrer
T revelyan was a pioneer of investi-
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ley lines, organic farming, and com-
munal living. He encouraged a syn-
thesis of sci­ence and spirituality and
taught extensively.
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At Dawn of a New Age
the
Memoirs of a Scientist
Rudolf Hauschka
T his is the story of the founder of
Wala Pharmaceutical Company,
which bases its research and medi-
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A Problematic Relationship Hiram A. Bingham
Sergei O. Prokofieff
A romantic adventure,
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powerful play of soul and Legend
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Barry M aher
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Christopher Marcus trained at
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his cult classic tells the
story of a future city in
process of devouring
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their rough lives on the
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Pietro Archiati
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karma that encourages a new Barry Maher is a management,
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 P ra y e r ,
Nicaea
A Book of Correspondences
M artin Rowe
U sing letters, medita-
tions, Arabic folktales,
a Sufi zhikr, prayers and
Turkish shadow puppet
theater, Nicaea explores
faith and political power,
individual conscience and
collective responsibility, art and truth,
and the sacred and profane.
Martin Rowe is the editor in chief
of Lantern Books and editor of The
Way of Compassion (1999) and the
founding editor of Satya: A Maga-
zine of Vegetarianism, Environmen-
talism, Animal Advocacy, and Social
Justice. He lives in New York City.
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The Parchment
A Novel
Gerald T. McL aughlin
I n a.d. 70, a document is
hidden that will threaten
the very foundations of
the Church. In time, it
unleashes schemes and
intrigues that involve the
Vatican, the Templars,
kings, and eventually two twentieth-
century professors, all wishing to use
it for their own purpose.
This is a dazzling story of two
millennia and the continuing battle
between good and evil.
Gerald T. McLaughlin is dean
emeritus and professor of law at Loy-
ola Law School in Los Angeles and
has written and lectured extensively.
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Zanoni
A Rosicrucian Tale
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
T he conflict between head and heart
that must be resolved through spir-
itual initiation is played out during
the French Revolution in this classic
Rosi­crucian account. The seven parts
of this novel indi­cate the sevenfold
path of spiritual development behind
the story itself.
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Rites of Rock
One Man’s Journey through
50 Years of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Eric G. Müller
“Eric Müller’s succulent Jeremiad
of rock rings necessary bells. The
insidious commercial culture of
rock, indubitably megalomaniacal,
present and past, is his subject—
deeply intuitive and fully educated.
—Robert Hunter, chief lyricist for
the Grateful Dead
Eric G. Müller was
born in South Africa and
studied literature and his-
tory at university. After
a variety of jobs and
playing in bands travel-
ing across Europe, he
attended Emerson College
in England and the Waldorf Institute
in Witten-Annen, Germany. With
his family he then moved to Eugene,
Oregon, where he taught for eight
years. He lives in upstate New York,
where he teaches music, drama, and
English. He has written short stories,
plays, poetry, and articles on music
and music education.
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Strange Life of Ivan Osokin
P. D. Ouspensky
If I had my life to live over again …
well, what would you do?
I
n his classic novel, set in
the last years of Tsarist
Russia, P. D. Ouspensky
explores imaginatively
one of the chief themes
in his philosophical
work: the idea of “eter-
nal recurrence.”
Peter D. Ouspensky (1878–1947)
was one of the first in the modern era
to explore questions of higher con-
sciousness and personal transforma-
tion.
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Prayer, Verses
& Meditations
Breathing the Spirit
Meditations for Times of Day &
Seasons of the Year
Rudolf Steiner
Selected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)
In this popular collec-
tion, Steiner delves into
the rhythms of nature
and their relationship
to us as human beings.
Part 1 relates to the cycle
of waking and sleeping,
while echoing the larger rhythms of
birth and death. Part 2 focuses on the
human individual’s passage through
nature’s changing seasons—Earth’s
greater cycle of sleeping and waking.
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Centering Prayer and Living with the Dead Prayers for Parents & Children
the Healing of the Unconscious Meditations for Maintaining a Connection Rudolf Steiner
Fr. Murchadh Ó M adagáin to Those Who Have Died

T he author describes the

life and thoughts of
Rudolf Steiner
Selected verses
Includes verses for every
occasion of parent-
ing. Includes prayers for
Fr. Thomas Keating, the
Sbetween
teiner stresses the morning and evening
Trappist monk who was continuing links and graces for mealtimes.
a founder of the center- the living and A lecture by Steiner pro-
ing prayer movement. the dead and shows vides context and insight
Centering prayer aims to how our thoughts can into our greater cosmic relationships
reclaim the Christian contemplative help those who have before birth, during life, and after
and mystical traditions after centu- departed earthly life. death.
ries of neglect and to make it avail- Included are poems that express ISBN: 1855840367
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Ó Madagáin traces its roots back to in their new existence. Rudolf Steiner Press
the fourth- and fifth-century Desert $14.95
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The Heart of Peace
T
Fr. Murchadh Ó Madagáin is a his book begins with a selection of
priest of the Diocese of Galway in Meditations for Courage and Tranquillity
Christy’s early poems followed by
the West of Ireland since 1998. He is Rudolf Steiner
more recent, previously unpublished
also the author of Thérèse of Lisieux: Selected verses (CWs 40, 267, 268)
poems.
Through Love and Suffering (St.
Paul’s, 2003).
ISBN: 9781590561072
T hese verses aim to strengthen the
heart by warming and enlivening
thinking, allowing for genuine peace
Christy MacKaye Barnes and her
husband Henry Barnes helped estab-
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of mind; by drawing feeling into the New York. She died in 2002.
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and by helping us to help others. $13.95
Meditations for Harmony and Healing 128 pages
ISBN: 1855841320
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Spiritual Songs

Ting,hese meditations pro-

mote harmony, heal-
and self-knowledge.
96 pages
Meditative Prayers for Today
Novalis
Foreword by Sergei O. Prokofieff
Adam Bittleston
By integrating spirit and
H ymns to the Night

T
matter within, we can hese prayers help us to experience poetically describes
also heal our relation- the rhythms of waking and sleep- the poet’s inspired awak-
ships with others. For ing, the days of the week, the sea­sons ening, and Spiritual
people today, increasingly divorced Songs expresses his trans-
of the year. Daily use of these prayers
from a living relationship with nature, formed relationship to
makes us conscious of how we stand
these verses help develop a world of the world, humanity, and
interconnections. continually in world rhythms.
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Shards from the Heart Arts & Literature Goethe & Palladio
A Spiritual Odyssey in 20th-Century Goethe’s study of the relationships
America Leonardo da Vinci between art and nature, leading through
Bernard Garber The Last Supper: A Cosmic Drama architecture to the discovery of the
and an Act of Redemption metamorphosis of plants
G arber explores the great myster-
ies of human life and shows how
Michael L adwein David Lowe & Simon Sharp
the purpose of life culminates in free-
dom of action. This book grew out Rudolf Steiner called
The Last Supper the
of study sessions over several years in world’s most important
T he authors explore how
Goethe’s experience of
Palladio’s architecture
New York City. work of art, adding that influenced his view of the
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$15.00
prayers for expectant rian and expert on religions who now 96 pages
mothers, for children before conducts art study tours. Visit his
and after birth, for the soul
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his is the first study to
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Pictures of the Transformation of
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Verses & Meditations Consciousness the work of that remark-
Rudolf Steiner Van James able group of writers

L avishly illustrated, now called the Oxford

F eaturing more than

ninety of Steiner’s best-
loved verses and medita-
this text reveals how
human conscious-
Christians. In focusing on the central
religious concern of the group, R. J.
ness has evolved and Reilly provides an approach destined
tions, this volume col- to become the norm. This is not a
lects a range of material makes the case for a
hidden stream of art work of convention literary biogra-
on various themes, such phy (even less hagiography) or con-
as working with spiritual throughout history.
Originally part of the secret mystery ventional literary history. Rather, it is
beings, connecting with loved ones intellectually informed criticism that
who have passed over, developing cults, the visual arts have become an
selfhood, and celebrating festivals expression of the individual creative makes possible a deep understand-
intuition. ing of the enduring dimensions of the
and seasons. Countless people have work of four of the most attractive
worked with these meditations over Van James is a Hawaiian-based art-
and challenging writers of our time.
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Number and Geometry
in Shakespeare’s M acbeth
Sylvia Eckersley
E ckersley had studied
scene symmetry in
Shakespeare’s plays and
was struck by the exact
middle lines of Macbeth
as numbered on a First
Folio edition:
See they encounter thee with their
harts thanks
Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i’th’
mid’st
She uncovered never-before doc-
umented numerical patterns and
rhythms in Macbeth that could pro-
foundly influence future interpreta-
tions and productions of this great
and timeless work.
Sylvia Eckersley developed her
ideas on Shakespeare for more than
twenty five years. She died in 2001.
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The Green Snake
and the Beautiful Lily
A Fairy Tale
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Color illustrations by Hermann Linde
Edited by Joan DeRis Allen
Afterword by Paul Marshall Allen
T he twelve full-page,
color paintings in
this book represent
“social sculpture” and about his views
the soul experiences
of the “Youth” in
the fairy tale. They are the fruit of life forms and provide the basis for a
an intense collaboration between path toward a future that is ecologi-
Hermann Linde and Rudolf Steiner, cally sustainable. Features more than
who commissioned the work.
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Dostoevsky Blackboard Drawings
The Scandal of Reason 1919–1924
M aria Nemcová Banerjee Rudolf Steiner
“This work is based on Edited by Walter Kugler
Maria Nemcová Baner-
S
teiner gave more
jee’s many years of teach-
than 5,000 lec-
ing and reflecting on the
meaning of Dostoevsky’s tures to explain his
novelistic world and ideas, and he fre-
worldview. Her grasp of quently illustrated
his words with col-
his religious imagination is firm
and her interpretations are chal-
ored chalk on a large
lenging. Professor Banerjee is a
black­board. After the autumn of
trustworthy guide in analyzing
1919, thick black paper was used to
Notes from the Underground and
cover the blackboards, and after the
The Brothers Karamazov. lec­tures the drawings were rolled up
—George A. Panichas,
and protected. This selection from
Editor, Modern Age:
more than a thousand such drawings
Maria Nemcová Banerjee is a provides a much deeper appreciation
professor of Russian and compara- of Steiner’s work.
tive literature at Smith College. Contains 120 color plates.
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176 pages 10 ½ X 10 inches
200 pages
What Is Art?
Conversations with Joseph Beuys A Way of Seeing
Joseph Beuys & Volker Harlan Perception, Imagination, and Poetry
John Allison
J
oseph Beuys’s work
continues to influence
and inspire artists and P oet John Allison
shows how ordinary
thinkers around the imagination can be inten-
world. sified to become a means
Harlan — whose own of cognition and a path
work explores substance to knowing and how
and sacrament — spoke with Beuys poetry — poetic know-
about the deeper motivations behind
ing and seeing — can reveal aspects
of the world invisible to science. He
on art. These profound reflections describes a path to true imagination
and thoughtful essays give a sense and attention.
of the interconnected nature of all John Allison, a former Waldorf
teacher, is a management consultant
and lecturer. He is a musician and
a poet, with three collections and
forty illustrations. poems in journals worldwide.
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The Lady & the Unicorn
Gottfried Buttner
Foreword by Baruch Urieli
A rt is rooted in cul-
ture and history
and its interpretation
can provide valuable
insights into human
nature. Buttner dis-
cusses the rich symbol-
ism and significance of
unicorns as expressed in the beauti-
ful, enigmatic tapestries of the Cluny
Museum in Paris, telling us how the
unicorn is related to the human soul’s
development.
Includes sixteen color plates.
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112 pages
Who Wrote Bacon?
William Shakespeare,
Francis Bacon & James I
Richard Ramsbotham
S ome researchers view
Bacon as the covert
author of works attrib-
uted to Shakespeare and
wish to place Bacon on
the pedestal of British
civilization. The author
shows substantial evidence that
Shakespeare and Bacon were linked,
but challenges the Baconian move-
ment. He offers remarkable new per-
spectives on King James I and his con-
nections with Shakespeare and Bacon,
as well as Jakob Böhme, Rudolf II,
Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and
the original Globe Theatre.
Richard Ramsbotham teaches
drama at Glasshouse College, UK,
and is writing a biography of Vernon
Watkins.
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The Secret Heresy of
Hieronymus Bosch
Lynda Harris
T
he strange paintings
of the Dutch artist
Hieronymus Bosch have
intrigued people for cen-
turies. The author offers
surprising new insights
into Bosch’s detailed
and cryptic visual fantasies. His nature. Includes four
paintings, done for Catholic patrons, color plates of her paintings and a
contain symbols of his beliefs within substantial col­lection of poems.
the imagery, which Harris deciphers
as Bosch’s heretical religious beliefs
from the Cathar faith.
Illustrated in color.
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Ninetta Sombart
Life and Art
Volker Harlan
T his is the only over-
view of Ninetta
Sombart’s life and work
as a painter. Though
her paintings are widely
known, they are shown
here for the first time as
a comprehensive collection. Her style
is distinct, with most of her paintings
based on Gospel images, showing
Jesus as the Son of God rather than
Jesus the man. She has developed a
unique color technique that better
expresses the esoteric aspect of the
Christ.
Includes more than ninety color
illustrations.
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Opening Our Moral Eye
Essays, Talks, and Poems
Embracing Creativity & Community
M. C. Richards
T
his collection explores
authenticity, imagina-
tion, creativity, whole-
ness, Rudolf Steiner and
Waldorf education, and
the sacred quality of
M. C. Richards (1916–1999) wrote
several books, including the classic
Centering.
ISBN: 0940262789
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Sing Me the Creation
Paul M atthews
A workbook to inspire
you to think and write
more creatively. More than
300 exercises encour­age
your fantasy and provide
the tools to craft poetry
and story. The exercises
will prove invalu­able for group work,
individuals wishing to develop more
creativity, and class teachers.
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Color & P ai n t i n g
Art
An Introductory Reader
Rudolf Steiner
Edited by Anne Stockton
S
teiner’s view of art was
that it should reflect
human experience of the
divine. However, one
must have a true sense of
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through these lectures and writ- Synthesis of the Arts
ings. Eurythmy
Rudolf Steiner Rhythm, Dance & Soul
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Introduction by
Christian Thal-Jantsen T he author provides an
illustrated, historical
context for eurythmy with
Colour
Rudolf Steiner
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T his illustrated volume
shows Steiner’s vision of
archi­tecture as a culmina-
a brief overview of dance,
from the ancient mysteries
to modern forms of dance
9 lectures 1914–1924 (GA 291) tion of the arts. and movement.
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distinguishes between
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Rudolf Steiner
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M u sic & S i n gi n g Singing and the Etheric Tone Four Mystery Dramas
Gracia Ricardo’s Approach to Singing, The Portal of Initiation; The Souls’ Probation;
Mozart
Based on Her Work with Rudolf Steiner The Guardian of the Threshold;
His Musical Style and His Role in the
Hilda Deighton, Gina Palermo The Souls’ Awakening
Development of Human Consciousness
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N e w objective, everyday thinking is the Childhood

The Schiller File lowest rung of a ladder that reaches And Human Evolution
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electricity, except by its effects. . . . In
origin, it is an astral force.”
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The Fourth Dimension
Sacred Geometry, Alchemy & Mathematics
Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
Introduction by David Booth
6 lectures, Mar. 24–June 7, 1905, and 2 function in all animal
lectures, Nov. 7, 1905 & Oct. 22, 1908, evolution. The author
Berlin (CW 324a)
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Developmental Dynamics
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Jos Verhulst
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Goethe and the Power of Rhythm Flowforms Goethe on Science

A Biographical Essay
John Barnes
B arnes traces a power-
ful 18.6 year rhythm
The Rhythmic Power of Water
John Wilkes
W ork­ing with his
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Anthology of Goethe’s Scientific Writings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jeremy Naydler, editor
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Introduction by Owen Barfield flower and fruit—and are comple-
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The Marriage of Sense & Thought
Imaginative Participation in Science
Stephen Edelglass, Georg M aier,
Hans Gebert & John Davy
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begin to incorporate the Introductions to Goethe’s Scientific of Life, has researched
fullness of human experi­ and taught this subject for more than
Writings
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E. L. Grant Watson
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Foreword by Ralph Twentyman
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The Tourmaline Toward a Phenomenology of Water Crystals

A Monograph the Etheric World Making the Quality of Water Visible
Friedrich Benesch & Bernhard Wohrmann Jochen Bockemühl, editor Andreas Schulz

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The Biodynamic Farm Principles of Biodynamic Spray Biodynamic Agriculture

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Th e I n n e r L i f e of the Earth
Fr o m t h e I n t r o d u c t i o n
Pa u l V. O’L e a r y
Paul V. O’Leary, a devoted student of
Anthroposophy, is a retired real-estate
appraiser and lawyer who specialized in
forensic appraisals and the appraisal of
conservation properties. He has written,
taught and lectured extensively on real-
estate economics and appraisal for the
Appraisal Institute, the Massachusetts Board of Real
Estate Appraisers, the American Society of Appraisers,
the Massachusetts and United States Bar Associations,
and is a faculty member of the Lincoln Institute for
Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paul was
instrumental in bringing to publication The Transfor-
mation of Evil by Sigismund von Gleich (2005) and
the collection of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the sub-
terranean spheres, which appeared under the title The
Interior of the Earth: An Esoteric Study of the Subter-
ranean Spheres (2006).
‰ good that I wish, but the evil that I do not wish, that
I f you could ask an angel what he or she found
to be remarkable about human beings, the
likely reply would be, “We are fascinated that
humans are split in two, that they live their lives
divided within themselves. How do they stand
it? How can they manage all that conflict? And
how do they live without knowing their purpose,
without knowing why they are alive?”
From the angelic viewpoint, humans present
themselves as an immediate and obvious dual-
ity. Angels are not divided beings; they are unitary and
not composite, as we are. Angels and the other Hierar-
chies of Good exist apart from, yet have their reflection
or counter-pole in, the Hierarchies of Evil. Together, both
echelons of spiritual beings comprise a duality, but not
separately. The Hierarchies of Good can do good, or do
better, but they cannot harbor a good and evil thought
at the same time, as we humans can. The Hierarchies of
Evil have a similar but polar perspective. Neither group is
both good and evil, as we are, who bear our polaric sides
within the same being — ourselves: hence, the uniqueness
of specifically human conscience. Only human beings can
experience freedom.
Angels stand in awe of our normal, everyday situa-
tion, where we can intuit multiple, yet contrary, ideas,
motives, and emotions at the same time. Have you ever 1.
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had a powerful experience in which your reactions
run the gamut from fear, anger, revenge, and shock to
bewilderment, confusion, compassion, forgiveness, and
willingness to sacrifice? Have all these thoughts and
emotions happened almost or actually simultaneously?
Of course, you have; you are a human being. Angels,
archangels, and so forth have no experience of this; it
is outside their realm. Schizophrenia belongs to human
beings and to human beings alone. It is unique to the
human condition.
Our dual nature is a primal phenomenon, an Ur-phe-
nomenon of our very being. It is our signature and marks
us out for what we truly are: the microcosm of the mac-
rocosm. The split of the universe into spirit and matter,
inner and outer, darkness and light, or the “matter” and
“anti-matter” of contemporary physics, is reflected in our
inner nature in the duality of percept-concept, mind-body,
thought-will, good-evil, life-death, and so on. “There is
an important occult axiom: every quality has two oppo-
site poles. So, we find, just as positive and negative elec-
tricity complement one another, so we have warmth and
cold, day and night, light and darkness, and so on.”1
Everyone has a “dark side,” a “shadow,” which is
revealed in every sphere of life. Saint Paul famously
describes the division in his soul: “For I do not the
I perform . . . unhappy man that I am!” (Rom.
7:19, 24). The poetic form of the same lament
is Goethe’s famous “Two souls, alas, reside
within my breast; the one from the other would
be parted.” (Faust part one, lines 775–776). It
is you and it is I, every time we act less mor-
ally than we know to be our best. It is the rift
manifest in the twin opposites of higher self and
lower self. Why we cannot be as “good” or as
“moral” as we can think; and why our thoughts,
emotions, and actions are out of sync with one
another : these issues reveal the fundamental problem. On
the other hand, we experience our ego most intensely pre-
cisely through the encounter with our own polarity.
“One does not usually notice that a human being is
a duality,” notes Rudolf Steiner. Nevertheless, we are
doubtlessly a duality. Moreover, that fact pervades the
spiritual-scientific worldview from anthroposophic med-
icine to biodynamic agriculture, from the description
of the constellations of the zodiac to the description of
the various members of the human being. With its sister
concepts “polarity” and “metamorphosis,” this dynamic
drives evolution itself through the cultural epochs and
from ancient Saturn to future Vulcan. It stands behind
the esoteric mantra: “That which is above is like to that
Rudolf Steiner, October 1, 1905. lecture 6, Foundations of
Esotericism (London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1983), pp. 41–42.
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which is below, and that which is
below is like to that which is above.”
This is true within the human being
as well.
Continuing from the quote on
duality, we learn from Steiner that
what appears in the lower part of
one’s organism always corresponds
to something in the upper part of the
organism; that certain organs could
not come into being in the upper part
unless parallel organs — in a certain
sense, opposing organs — were able to
have a place in the lower part as the
opposite pole; that there is an inner
relationship between the form of the
intestine and the form of the brain
and that the intestinal organs are
truly the reverse side of the brain.1
The macrocosm and microcosm
mirror each other. The phenomenon
of the human being’s dual nature is
shown by the Earth as seen floating
in space. The Earth has no light of its
own, but receives its light from the
Sun and stars and from the reflected
light of the Moon. Half of the Earth
is always in darkness, while the
other half is flooded with light. From
a Goethean point of view, where
physical facts simultaneously rep-
resent spiritual reality, this picture
portrays the essence of polarity. For
Goethe, natural phenomena are liv-
ing expressions of the theory (idea)
that created them. “The best of all
would be to realize that every fact is
already theory. The blue of the sky
shows us the principals of color. We
need not look for anything behind
phenomena; they themselves are the
doctrine.”2 If the phenomena are
the theory, then the dark and light
Earth revolving through space per-
fectly expresses both the dynamic of
polarity and our human nature.
What has all this to do with the
subject of this book, the realm of the
1. Rudolf Steiner, March 24, 1920. cited
in Karl König, Earth and Man (Wyoming, 3. Rudolf Steiner, Nov. 22, 1906, The 5. Christopher Bamford, “Paradoxi-
RI: Biodynamic Literature, 1982), p. 267. Origin of Suffering; the Origin of Evil, Ill- cal Thoughts on Christ and Sophia in the
2. From Christopher Bamford, An End- ness and Death, N. Vancouver, BC: Steiner Human Mystery of the Earth,” in The Inner
less Trace (SteinerBooks, 2006), p. 57.
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subterranean spheres and the interior
of the Earth?
The goal of human evolution is that
we develop an independent, free “I,”
or self. We are to evolve from created
beings to creative beings, motivated
and permeated by love, an energy
that will be comprised of the trans-
Natural science knows
less about the depths
of our oceans than it
does about the depths
of outer space, and
even less about the
interior of the Earth.
formed wisdom we have learned
through our many incarnations. This
new form of love will be an objective,
cosmic force, universal in scope and
not subjective, personal, and limited
as it is now. To that extent, we must
acquire self-knowledge. “Know thy
Self” is the profound esoteric man-
date of the past, present, and future.
At the event known in the Bible as the
Fall, Lucifer provided our initial self
and imbued humankind with a self-
ish nature in our astral body. This
permeation by selfishness, or egotism,
however, also provided the basis of
our freedom; “freedom and evil have
the same original source.”3
Selfishness transforms and reap-
pears in the ether body as falsehood
and lying, and descends further into
the physical body, where it mani-
fests as sickness and death. These
forces, originating from selfishness,
are found within the human subcon-
scious, the subterranean spheres, and
are the sources of evil. In order to
transform these forces and overcome
Book Centre, 1980, pp. 20–21.
Ear t h
the Fall, we must first recognize
them, acknowledge their existence,
and bring them into full conscious-
ness. We are slaves to our own nature
and to the karmic web we live in
because of our past lives. Freedom, as
such, is currently not possible within
the sphere of human will; freedom
is possible only within the realm of
thinking. Free thought can lead to
freedom from enslaving emotions,
urges, and passions. Free thought is
the precondition for the moral trans-
formation needed to become a free
personality. To the degree we lack
self-knowledge, we are controlled by
our subconscious life. Steiner noted
that where self-knowledge ends, self-
love begins . . .  and vice versa. Descent
into the subterranean spheres is a
descent into the lower self and the
forces of egotism. Enhanced under-
standing of these forces is a prerequi-
site to increasing self-knowledge and
facilitating purification and spiritual-
ization of one’s all-too-human nature.
Otherwise, we cannot avoid “the
catastrophe of the lower nature.”4
Our very “I”-consciousness
is possible because the mineral
earth — the first layer of the inte-
rior of the Earth — and the other
chthonic regions exist. Our human
nature is a reflection of the sub-
earthly and supraearthly realms
that comprise the macrocosm and
the microcosm. “The true meaning
of the microcosm–macrocosm anal-
ogy is not that the human being is
a little cosmos, but that the cos-
mos is a big human being.”5 From
this perspective it makes complete
sense that the subterranean realms
described by spiritual science live
within the deepest realms of our
4. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, October 10, 1958,
Subnature and Super-nature in the Physi-
ology of Plant and Man: the True Foun-
dations of Nutrition, Spring Valley, NY:
Mercury Press, 1981, p. 25.
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human nature and subconscious
life of darker feelings and will.
Deep within the human being, they
radiate into the shadows of thought.
This region is more familiarly
known as Hell, Hades, or the Abyss.
The subterranean spheres, then, are
the Earth’s “dark side.” This per-
spective is clearly Manichean.
The energies that feed our irratio-
nal side pour forth from these depths.
We can view human history, or sim-
ply everyday life, as a constant battle
between the irrational and rational.
We humans, individually and collec-
tively, have a “self-destruct” impulse
deep within our nature, whereby we
destroy the things we hold most dear
and kill those things we most love.
Historical events since the dawn of
the Age of Light in 1900, as well as
the daily news headlines, provide
overwhelming proof of this. Money,
power, sensuality, and violence
enthrall human beings. What was
culturally unacceptable forty or even
twenty years ago is now normal. The
gradual, manifold, and seemingly
inevitable degradation of cultural
norms, sliding progressively down
into the abyss, needs no additional
documentation for the reader of this
book. Thoughtful people question
whether we should classify human
beings as “rational creatures” at all.
“A bevy of experiments in recent years
suggests that the conscious mind is
like a monkey riding a tiger of sub-
conscious decisions and actions in
progress, frenetically making up sto-
ries about being in control.”1 Robert
Kagan, a professor and historian at
Yale, recently commented, “To me,
the deepest message, the most tragic,
is [Thucydides’] picture of civilization
as a very thin veneer. When you punch
a hole in it, what you find underneath
is hollow, the pre-civilized character-
istics of the human race — animalistic
in the worst possible way.”2 More
appropriate to this particular book is
1. Maureen Dowd, January 7, 2007.
2. New York Times, May 29, 2007.
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a picture of human nature as a vol- even that it is a “self-regulating, liv-
cano fueled by ancient energies from ing being.”5 For spiritual science “the
the subterranean spheres, capped evolution of the human being and
and (ideally) controlled by the devel- the evolution of the Earth are a sin-
oping and newest member of human gle process.”6 They each condensed
nature: the nascent ego, or “I.” into physical substance through the
Two paths are available to pen- same event — the Fall, also character-
etrate the maya of existence toward ized as the fall into matter. Moreover,
genuine spiritual reality: the outer they mutually depend upon the same
path through the outer world, and polar event — the Mystery of Gol-
the inner path via one’s inner life. gotha — for their transformation and
Tracing the chthonic energies to their spiritualization.
source is, obviously, part of the inner For those readers who wish to pen-
path. Steiner warns of the dangers etrate more deeply into the anthro-
for those who would follow this path. posophic worldview concerning the
One can observe human beings who interior of the Earth, two recent
have become addicted to the lower publications are useful. Sigismund
passions through perverted sexual- von Gleich’s Transformation of Evil
ity, drugs, greed, gambling, the lust (see page 44) provides an excellent
for power, and even rape and mur- summary of the spiritual-scientific
der. The washed-out addict or serial picture of the interior of the Earth,
killer appears hollow, an empty the corresponding energies of evil and
shell; the self is devoured while that their counter-pole in the nine Beati-
person devours others by indulging tudes of the Sermon on the Mount.
in, or being dominated by, the pas- The other, The Interior of the Earth:
sions. The depths of the subterranean An Esoteric Study of the Subterra-
realm eventually lead to the source of nean Spheres (see page 41), offers
black magic, which Steiner defines as Rudolf Steiner’s only five lectures that
“magic based on egotism.”3 address the topic directly. In addition,
From a more global perspective, it contains relevant excerpts from
the Earth, as a planet within the solar five other lectures by Steiner, as well
system, is very much a living being. It as material from Adolf Arenson and
was only with the advent of modern Countess von Keyserlingk. The pres-
natural science that the Earth began ent collection may be considered the
to be seen as a dead, lifeless ball float- third in that series.
ing in the vacuum of space. Natural
science knows less about the depths
of our oceans than it does about the
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depths of outer space, and even less
about the interior of the Earth. The For more on this book, please see
materialistic worldview has reached page 7. The complete text of this in-
its zenith; since the middle of the troduction is posted on our website,
last century, new-age scientists and www.steinerbooks.org.
spiritually minded people have ini-
tiated countervailing concepts that
the Earth has qualities of life,4 or
3. Rudolf Steiner, June 12, 1906, “Earth-
quakes, Volcanoes and the Human Will,” versity Press, 1967.
in The Interior of the Earth: An Esoteric 5. See, for example, James Lovelock,
Study of the Subterranean Spheres, London: Gaia: A new Look at Life on Earth, New
Rudolf Steiner Press, 2006, p. 22. York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
4. See Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life? 6. Christopher Bamford, “Paradoxical
(with Mind and Matter and Autobiographi- Thoughts on Christ and Sophia,” The Inner
cal Sketches), New York: Cambridge Uni- Life of the Earth.
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 Th e M y s t e r y o f
Th e M y s t e r y of M a ry M ag da l e n e
Ro b e r t Pow e l l
Robert Powell, PhD, is an international-
ly known lecturer, author, eurythmist, and
movement therapist. He is founder of the
Choreocosmos School of Cosmic and Sa-
cred Dance, and cofounder of the Sophia
Foundation of North America. He received
his doctorate for his thesis The History of
the Zodiac, now available as a book from
Sophia Academic Press. His published works include The
Sophia Teachings, a six-tape series (Sounds True Record-
ings), as well as the following books: Divine Sophia – Holy
Wisdom; The Most Holy Trinosophia and the
New Revelation of the Divine Feminine; The So-
phia Teachings; Chronicle of the Living Christ;
Christian Hermetic Astrology; The Christ Mys-
tery; The Sign of the Son of Man in the Heavens;
The Morning Meditation in Eurythmy; and the
yearly Christian Star Calendar. He translated
the spiritual classic Meditations on the Tarot
and co-translated Valentin Tomberg’s Lazarus,
Come Forth! He is coauthor with Lacquanna
Paul of Cosmic Dances of the Zodiac and Cos-
mic Dances of the Planets. He teaches a gentle form of
healing movement: the sacred dance of eurythmy, as well
as the cosmic dances of the planets and signs of the zodiac,
and through the Sophia Grail Circle he facilitates sacred
celebrations dedicated to the Divine Feminine. Robert of-
fers workshops in Europe and North America and, with
Karen Rivers, cofounder of the Sophia Foundation, leads
pilgrimages to the world’s sacred sites. Visit www.sophia-
foundation.org for more information.
The following excerpt is from Robert Powell’s lat-
est book, The Mystery, Biography, and Destiny of Mary
Magdalene: Sister of Lazarus John & Spiritual Sister of
Jesus (see page 7).
‰ After she had received the stigmata, there were many
I n the last thirty or forty years, interest in Mary
Magdalene has grown enormously, particularly with the
idea — first presented through the 1971 rock opera (later
a Broadway show), Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Oscar-
nominated film adaptation thereof — that there was a love
relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. This
fired people’s imaginations. In 1982, this was brought
into literary form by three journalists in England who
wrote a book entitled The Holy Blood, and the Holy
Grail, in which they put forward a theory that Jesus and
Mary Magdalene had been married, had children, and
that the descendants of this lineage were the bearers of
1. Lynn Picknett, Mary Magdalene: Christianity’s Hidden God-
the mystery of the Holy Grail. This idea became popular- dess, New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003.
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ized on a large scale by Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci
Code, published in 2003, in which the theory that had
been presented in The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail
was put forward in a modified form. Since then, there
have been further publications in which people’s imagi-
nations have found fertile ground. A recent book by Lynn
Picknett, called Mary Magdalene: Christianity’s Hidden
Goddess, speculates that Mary Magdalene may have
been an Egyptian priestess who practiced ritual sex or
that perhaps she was from Africa and was black, and she
goes so far as to suggest that there may be ancient docu-
ments that prove that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were
sexual partners (married or otherwise) that the church
has acquired and suppressed.1 Various ideas of this kind
are floating around, which have come about mainly, as
noted, in the last thirty years.
The question may be asked: Why live with
speculations if it is possible to know the truth?
I believe it is possible to know the truth about
Mary Magdalene, and to know her biography.
To give an indication of this, I will briefly refer
to the research in my book Chronicle of the Liv-
ing Christ, published in 1996, which contains a
day-by-day biography of the life of Christ. This
book was the result of ten years of research that
I undertook into the works of a German nun, who was
a contemporary of Beethoven and Goethe, named Anne
Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824). At the age of thirty-
eight she received the stigmata. She then lived for another
twelve years without eating any solid food, except for tak-
ing the host at communion once a day. Occasionally she
would also drink small amounts of water. Already from
her earliest childhood, she lived continually in visions
from the life of Christ. This was quite natural for her.
Her visions were so alive that it was for her as if she were
physically present at the events she saw. She was able to
describe in great detail much about the life of Christ and
about the people around him.
from all over Europe who came to visit her because they
wanted to witness this miracle. One of those was a Ger-
man poet, Clemens Brentano, who on meeting her was so
struck and impressed by the purity of her being that he
decided to stay and become her scribe. Interestingly, Sister
Emmerich had previously had a vision that her guardian
angel had told her that someone was coming and would
be her scribe. In the vision this person was referred to as
“the pilgrim.” When Brentano came, Sister Emmerich rec-
ognized immediately that he was the one whom she had
seen in the vision. Over several years he visited her every
day and wrote down what she had seen, as she dictated
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the content of her visions to him, describing the events in
the life of Christ day by day. The resulting transcription
of her visions was eventually compiled in a book pub-
lished in four volumes, The Life of Jesus Christ.1
The fourth volume is mainly concerned with the events
of Christ’s Passion, which took place between the Last
Supper and the Crucifixion. Many have heard of—or per-
haps even seen—the film by Mel Gibson, The Passion of
the Christ, which is based on this fourth volume, although
Gibson did take some liberties in the way in which he
dealt with the content of Sister Emmerich’s work. When
you read Sister Emmerich’s account of the life of Christ
you do get a sense of authenticity. However, as a scientist
When we read the
account by Sister
Emmerich of the life of
Jesus Christ, we are on
a secure foundation for
understanding the truth.
I could not be content simply with this sense of truth. I
needed a way to know for sure whether her visions were
true or not. I studied her book The Life of Jesus Christ
line by line and found that she made references to places,
days of the week, and dates in the Hebrew calendar,
particularly relating to festivals. Without a background
in astronomical chronology, one might not necessarily
notice these details. For example, on one occasion she
said, “Jesus taught in the synagogue at Ainon. . . . That
evening, after the close of the Sabbath . . . it was the com-
mencement of the Feast of Tabernacles.”2
With a background in astronomical chronology, one
can know that the Feast of Tabernacles commences on the
fifteenth day of the month of Tishri in the Hebrew Cal-
endar. This is a lunar calendar so that the fifteenth day—
falling in the middle of a lunar month containing twenty-
nine or thirty days—coincides with the Full Moon. (The
month starts with the first appearance at dusk of the thin
crescent of the New Moon.) Moreover, since the Hebrew
Sabbath extends from dusk on Friday evening to dusk on
Saturday evening, it must have been Saturday evening
“after the close of the Sabbath.” So this event happened
on a Saturday evening at Full Moon. I collected all refer-
ences of this kind made by Sister Emmerich and found
to my astonishment that they all fit exactly in the period
from the year 29 to the year 33 in the Hebrew lunar cal-
1. Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Life of Jesus Christ (4 vols.)
Rockford, IL: TAN Books, 2004.
2. Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 374–375.
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endar. And since I have a masters degree in statistics and
probability theory, I worked out the probability of these
very specific indications and found that the probability
that the dates were random was one in four-hundred-
and-thirty-five billion. Anyone with any understanding
of probability theory will know, therefore, that the dates
quoted by Sister Emmerich are authentic. To be doubly
sure, I had my work checked by two other mathemati-
cians, who came to the same result.
Therefore, I feel very secure in saying that for the first
time in history it has been possible to find the true and
exact dates of the life of Christ, primarily from the Bap-
tism in the Jordan onward (but also from shortly before
the Baptism), up until the Crucifixion and Resurrection
and shortly thereafter. Moreover, even though she was
bedridden in the little town of Dülmen in Germany and
read no books—she could hardly read and write—Sister
Emmerich gave accurate and detailed descriptions of
local customs at the time of Christ, and also of the exact
topography of Palestine, as later I was able to witness
on pilgrimages to the Holy Land in 1993 and 1997. For
example, the description of the location of the house of
the Virgin Mary in Ephesus (present-day Turkey) was
so detailed and precise that two priests in the year 1891
explored the region around Ephesus and found a place
that corresponded to her description. An archeological
investigation showed that what they had found were the
remains of a building that dated from the first century
and that the arrangement of the rooms fitted exactly Sis-
ter Emmerich’s description of the structure. The house
was subsequently rebuilt according to this description
and is now an important place of pilgrimage.
Thus, when we read the account by Sister Emmerich
of the life of Jesus Christ, we are on a secure foundation
for understanding the truth. Even though one cannot
say that every single word is absolutely accurate, cer-
tainly from what I have been able to investigate, there
is no way she could have made it all up. Her work is
a demonstration of the power and ability of a certain
kind of clairvoyance to determine historical dates and
geographical locations of long-past events—with nearly
one hundred percent certainty, as the application of
probability theory to Sister Emmerich’s calendar indi-
cations verifies.
The Life of Jesus Christ, stemming from the clairvoy-
ance of Sister Emmerich, is also a source for understand-
ing the life of Mary Magdalene. It presents something
very different from what the three English journalists
and Dan Brown describe in their books. (Some read-
ers might now wish to consult the last chapter, enti-
tled “The John Mystery,” where I have described Mary
Magdalene’s biography in some detail, in the context
of the biography of her brother Lazarus, based on the
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clairvoyant descriptions of Emmer-
ich.) In this chapter, I briefly develop
a few aspects concerning the life of
Mary Magdalene. In what follows, I
am drawing upon Sister Emmerich’s
descriptions.
Mary Magdalene was the sister
of Martha and Lazarus, and grew
up in the family castle in Bethany,
just northeast of Jerusalem. This is
also where Lazarus was later raised
from the dead by Jesus Christ. Mary
Magdalene was the youngest of four
children and was very beautiful. Her
family was considered to be quite
wealthy. Lazarus had inherited from
his father and shared his wealth
with his three sisters. The third sis-
ter was referred to as Silent Mary
who, in modern terminology, would
be called developmentally delayed or
mentally ill. She did not speak but
had profound inner visions. She died
at a relatively early age on April 8 in
c.e. 30, about six months after the
ministry of Christ began on Septem-
ber 23 in 29 c.e., the day of the Bap-
tism in the Jordan.
Already by that time, Mary Mag­
dalene was living in her own castle
on the southwest shore of the Sea
of Galilee in the town of Magdala,
referred to by Sister Emmerich as
Magdalum, located a few miles
north of Tiberius. Being wealthy and
beautiful she enjoyed life and, cor-
respondingly, lived the “high life.”
This was a great source of concern
for her brother Lazarus and sister
Martha, both of whom had in the
meantime become disciples of Jesus
of Nazareth. There had been links
between the family of Lazarus and
the Holy Family for a long time,
even before Jesus was born, as the
woman (her name was Noemi) who
had looked after the Virgin Mary
when she was a Temple virgin was
an aunt of Lazarus (she was the sis-
ter of Lazarus’s mother).
Lazarus and Martha recognized
Jesus as the Messiah, and did every-
thing that they could to support him.
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In fact, Lazarus played an extraor-
dinarily important role in the life
of Christ. He was effectively the
“patron” of Christ. It is well known
that Jesus did a lot to help the poor
by often distributing bread and other
food—and sometimes money—to
the poor when he went somewhere.
Where did this abundance come
from? Jesus himself had nothing. It
was made possible through the sup-
port of Lazarus and Martha, who
took care of the needs not only of
Jesus but also of his disciples.
As we can see from the fact that
he was raised from the dead later,
Lazarus was what we would nowa-
days call an initiate, someone who
had attained an extraordinary level
of spiritual development, endowed
with remarkable suprasensory gifts.
It is not too farfetched to call him
the spiritual brother of Jesus. Read-
ing between the lines, this is what
is indirectly stated in chapter 11 of
the Gospel of John with the words:
“Now Jesus loved Martha and her
sister and Lazarus.” The use of
the word loved points to a special
bond that Jesus had with this family,
which I have elaborated upon in fur-
ther detail in the last chapter, “The
John Mystery.” This bond offers us
a key to understanding the relation-
ship that Jesus had with Lazarus and
also with Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene’s wild life was a
source of great concern to Lazarus
and Martha. They were praying for
guidance as to how to go about intro-
ducing their sister to Jesus. Then one
day Martha received guidance to go
to Mary because she knew that Jesus
was going to be teaching in the area of
Magdala, in a place called Gabara—
northwest of Tiberius—not far from
the Sea of Galilee. Martha man-
aged to persuade her sister to come
and hear Jesus preach on a hill near
Gabara on November 8, 30 c.e. Mary
came with an attitude of curiosity to
see the new prophet, but not with
any sense of belief. She came dressed
in her finest clothes and she brought
some friends who enjoyed living it up
with her. However, while Jesus was
speaking she had an extraordinary
experience. We have to remember
that when he spoke, his words had
great power, possessing a strength
that would move people, affecting
them even down into their physical
body. Mary became riveted by every-
thing Jesus said, to the point that—
and this is an event that is difficult
for us to understand—Jesus cast a
demon out from Mary Magdalene. In
modern terminology we would prob-
ably call it some kind of psychologi-
cal complex, but in those days it was
said that the person was possessed by
a demon.
It is very interesting to look at what
was taking place in the heavens at the
time of this event of Jesus casting out
a demon from Mary Magdalene. As
the research I have presented in vari-
ous publications shows, every event
in the life of Christ had a perfect cor-
respondence with what was taking
place in the cosmos. At that time, the
Sun and Venus were in conjunction.
Venus, of course, is known as the
planet of love and Christ was known
as the Sun Spirit. They were close
together—in conjunction—in the
constellation of Scorpio, the Sun at
17 degrees Scorpio, only two degrees
away from Antares at fifteen degrees,
the star in the center of Scorpio,
known as the heart of the Scorpion.
According to ancient star mythology,
this position of the Sun tells us a lot.
In the works of Plutarch, an initiate
who gathered information from many
ancient mystery centers and who was
also a priest at Delphi, the great ora-
cle center of the god Apollo, we find a
myth concerning the death of Osiris,
which according to this account took
place when the Sun was at 17 degrees
of Scorpio. That was the exact degree
at which the Sun was located when
Jesus cast out a demon from Mary
Magdalene. From a cosmic viewpoint,
evidently Jesus brought to manifesta-
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tion something of the myth of Osiris
in enacting this deed. Furthermore,
the number of correspondences
between Christ and Osiris is striking,
the primary one being that Christ
died and rose again from the dead,
as is related in the myth of Osiris. At
this position of the Sun, located at 17
degrees Scorpio, where it was said to
be at the death of Osiris, Jesus cast
out a demon from Mary Magdalene,
bringing about a chance for new life
and restoring her to wholeness.
There is yet another interesting
cosmic correspondence concerning
this event, which is that Mercury
was located at the beginning of Sagit-
tarius in conjunction with the galac-
tic center at 2 degrees Sagittarius.
This is a very significant place in the
zodiac that has much to do with the
divine power of Christ—the galactic
center being a location of enormous
power.1
This event in the life of Mary
Magdalene on November 8, 30 c.e.,
occurred a little more than a year
after the Baptism of Jesus in the
River Jordan, which had taken place
on September 23, 29 c.e. Five days
later, on November 13, 30 c.e., Jesus
came to the town of Nain and raised
a twelve-year-old boy from the dead.
This event of the raising from the
dead of the youth of Nain is described
in the Gospel of Luke. There were
many other miracles Jesus performed
around the time of his encounter
with Mary Magdalene, when he cast
out a demon from her. The following
words spoken by Christ apply to her:
“When the unclean spirit has gone out
of a man, he passes through water-
less places seeking rest; and finding
none, he says: ‘I will return to my
house from which I came.’ And when
he comes he finds it swept and put in
order. Then he goes and brings seven
other spirits more evil than himself,
and they enter and dwell there; and
1. Lacquanna Paul & Robert Powell, Cos-
mic Dances of the Planets, San Rafael, CA:
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the last state becomes worse than
the first” (Luke 11:24). In fact, this
is exactly what happened. Mary
Magdalene did have a relapse; for
she returned to her former lifestyle
and become possessed again, this
time by seven demons. Martha and
Lazarus, who witnessed this, were
of course now deeply concerned and
kept praying for guidance as to what
to do. This new condition lasted for
almost exactly seven weeks. (Again
and again we find this period of
seven weeks in the life of Christ. For
instance, Pentecost came seven weeks
after the Resurrection.)
Just as Jesus himself
had a circle of
disciples who were
all men, so the Virgin
Mary had a circle of
women around her.
Seven weeks after the encounter
with Jesus at Gabara, on Decem-
ber 26, 30 c.e., Martha again man-
aged to persuade Mary Magdalene
to come and hear Jesus speak, this
time in a place called Azanoth, a
few miles northwest of Gabara. On
this occasion Jesus cast out all seven
demons, as described in great detail
by Sister Emmerich, and as is referred
to briefly also in the Gospel: “Mary,
called Magdalene, from whom seven
demons had gone out” (Luke 8:2).
This was a kind of initiation. It was
a freeing and opening of all seven of
Mary Magdalene’s chakras. Through
this initiation, she became the first
fully redeemed soul.
This was, of course, an event of
great importance in the life of Mary
Magdalene. Something truly extraor-
dinary had taken place through which
she was able more and more to find
her true calling. Just as her brother,
Lazarus, was a high initiate, so was
Mary Magdalene in her own right a
great initiate, having received her ini-
tiation from Christ, who opened her
seven chakras.
After he had cast out the demons,
Jesus advised Mary Magdalene to
stay in the company of the Virgin
Mary. Just as Jesus himself had a cir-
cle of disciples, who were all men—
remembering that it was a patriarchal
culture—so the Virgin Mary had a
circle of women around her, which
Sister Emmerich refers to as the holy
women. Mary Magdalene joined this
circle of holy women and played an
important role there.
This was all preparation for the
great event, later, when she was the
one who, on the morning of the
Resurrection, came to the empty
tomb. There, in the Garden of the
Holy Sepulcher, she turned around
and saw someone whom she thought
was the gardener—until she heard
him speak. Then she knew: This is
the Risen One. He has risen from
the dead. Christ spoke with her and
said that she should go to the dis-
ciples and tell them that he would
be ascending to the Father. He gave
her the task of being a messenger.
One of the Greek words for messen-
ger is Apostle. Because it was Mary
Magdalene who brought the news
of the Resurrection to the Apostles,
particularly to Peter and John, she
is called the Apostle to the Apostles.
The initiation she received from Jesus
was a preparation for this great event
of being charged with Jesus’ message
of his resurrection from the dead,
thereby bearing witness to the Resur-
rection and becoming the Apostle to
the Apostles.
The rest of Mary Magdaline’s life
is shrouded in mystery. Nevertheless,
with the help of Sister Emmerich it
is possible to begin to understand
what took place. After the events of
the Resurrection and the Ascension
she withdrew to live the life of a her-
mit in the desert, rather like John the
Baptist had done before he began to
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baptize people in the River Jordan.
However, when she was visiting her
brother and sister in Bethany, about
three years after Pentecost, because
a persecution of Christians by the
Jews had started, she was arrested.
On this occasion Lazarus, Martha,
and Mary Magdalene were all taken
into custody, as well as the sisters’
maidservants, Marcella and Sara,
and two other people who were vis-
iting Lazarus at the time: one of the
seventy-two disciples, named Maxi-
min, and the man who had been born
blind and was healed by Jesus, Che-
litonius, also sometimes known as
Sidonius. These seven were taken to
the Mediterranean coast, somewhere
close to present-day Tel Aviv. They
were put into a little boat, towed
out far into the sea, and cut loose.
The idea was that they would perish,
but that did not happen. Through
divine providence, this little boat
made it across the Mediterranean so
that the family with the servants and
companions came ashore at a place
in the South of France now called St.
Maries-de-la-Mer.
On the Sophia Foundation pilgrim-
age to the South of France in 1998, I
traveled to St. Maries-de-la-Mer and
visited a Romanesque church that
has a crypt with a black Madonna. It
is not dedicated to Mary, but repre-
sents an image of Sara, the Egyptian
maidservant of Mary Magdalene.
Sara is the patron saint of the Gyp-
sies. Each year on May 24, as the
Gypsies converge upon St. Maries-
de-la-Mer, they are welcomed to the
ninth-century fortified Romanesque
church and the St. Sara Crypt. Their
purpose is to pay respect to Sara-la-
Kali, or Sara the Black. They come
by the thousands from around the
world to this little town for baptisms,
family reunions, and other events.
Everywhere, the bejeweled Gypsy
women are in long, colorful skirts,
full white blouses, and kerchiefs. The
statue of Sara is carried by specially
chosen men in a solemn procession,
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accompanied by Camargue guards
on horseback, to the Mediterranean
Sea for prayers and veneration. The
narrow streets of St. Maries-de-la-
Mer overflow as the Gypsies honor
the escort, singing hymns untiringly
and shouting again and again, “Vive
Saint Sara!” There are many tradi-
tions of this kind relating to the com-
ing to the Provence region of Lazarus
and his sisters and companions, who
were the bearers of Christianity to
Europe just three years after the Res-
urrection of Christ.
Right now, in our
age of television,
computers, cell
phones, and iPo ds,
such communion
with nature is
dif ficult to imagine.
But it will come
again in the future.
Now we can imagine that Lazarus,
having been raised from the dead,
had an extraordinary power, as had
Mary Magdalene, and Martha, too,
after having spent so much time in
the presence of Jesus Christ. When
Lazarus spoke, it was a power-
ful experience. While Sara stayed
behind in St. Maries-de-la-Mer, the
rest of the group went to the town
of Massilia (present-day Marseilles),
farther eastward along the coast.
They lived there, and because of
Lazarus’s presence and the power of
his speaking, very soon a community
of people became converted to this
new religion of Jesus Christ, the Mes-
siah, who had died and risen from
the dead. Lazarus became the bishop
of this first community of Christians
in Europe. He kept a “spiritual eye”
on Martha and Mary Magdalene, his
two sisters, who each had their own
calling. Mary Magdalene went even
farther eastward from Marseilles, to
a cave in the Provence region that is
called Sainte-Baume, where she lived
the life of a hermit for about thirty
years. This cave is halfway up a sheer
rock face, a very imposing place. The
path leading up to it goes through an
ancient, sacred forest. Before Mary
Magdalene came there, the place was
sacred to the Druids.
What was she doing there all that
time? She led the life of a mystic,
in continual communion with the
angelic realm and with Christ, who
was at this time on his path of ascent
through the heavenly realms. She
was living with the words the angels
had spoken at the Ascension: “Men
of Galilee, why do you stand look-
ing into heaven? This Jesus, who was
taken up from you into heaven, will
come in the same way as you saw
him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11). The
angels were proclaiming his second
coming, what is referred to in the
Book of Revelation as his “coming
in the clouds” (Rev. 1:7). One of the
things Mary Magdalene did at Sainte-
Baume was to spend a lot of time
contemplating the clouds. She lived
in communion with nature. She was
in effect role-modeling something for
humanity of the future. Right now, in
our age of television, computers, cell
phones, and iPods, such communion
with nature is difficult to imagine.
But it will come again in the future.
She did not have any concern about
her physical well-being since she
lived in perfect harmony and oneness
with nature. Everything was taken
care of in a quite natural way. When
she needed water, she would find it.
When she needed to eat, she would
find plants to eat. It was a condition
we can hardly imagine nowadays, a
condition of oneness with the whole
of nature.
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 W e e k l y M e di t a t i o n s
W e e k ly M e d itati o n s
Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul
with accompanying reflections by Patsy Scala
If you wish to know yourself,
Seek yourself in the world’s far breadths;
If you wish to know the world,
Penetrate your own inner depths.
Your own depths will disclose,
As in world memory,
The mysteries of the cosmos to you.
— Rudolf Steiner, Finding the Greater Self
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
Weekly Meditations is the result of a year of the
author’s daily reflections, which she edited into
a weekly format, then further edited for clarity
and continuity. Patsy Scala offers readers her
meditative reflections on Rudolf Steiner’s weekly
verses as helpful beginning points for one’s own
reflections, along with Christopher Bamford’s
fresh translations of the verses themselves.
R udolf Steiner wrote the Calendar of the Soul in 1912,
beginning at Easter, which occurred in that year on
April 7, as a means of helping readers feel the moods of
the seasons within their own soul moods and understand
the relationship between season and soul. Steiner began
the year at Easter, which marked for him the birth of the
“I.” Thus the Calendar verses begin with this most sacred
of times. Because the date of Easter is not fixed, we have
provided five years’ worth of dates to assist the reader in
exploring the movement of his or her soul through the
cycles of several years. Since Easter’s date can vary by
a month or more, the verses and reflections for the year
speak of a seasonal “mood” rather than a specific festival.
For example, the Christmas mood can occur at any time
from Advent to Epiphany. In the year’s progression, St.
John’s Tide is on June 24, Michaelmas on September 29,
and Christmas on December 25. The “mood” of these
festivals, however, permeates the entire season in which
they occur.
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Even though, following Steiner, we
start our journey around the year at
Easter, one may of course start the
weekly meditations and reflections
at any time. The year is a cycle, and
whenever we begin, going around and
around, as the Earth herself circles the
Sun, we are drawn into an ever-deep-
ening awareness of the rhythms, polar-
ities, and balances that the sacred fes-
tivals of all traditions and times have
always celebrated.
It is important to understand that, though the Chris-
tian festivals—Easter, St. John’s Tide, Michaelmas, and
Christmas—mark the cardinal points of the meditations
of Calendar of the Soul, these verses reflect a different
view of the Christ Event than the view contained in tra-
ditional Christian theology.
Rudolf Steiner’s view of the Christ is as a universal,
all-encompassing being, incarnated for all humanity,
regardless of spiritual tradition. Furthermore, in Stein-
er’s view, the Christ being is not only divine but also
cosmic. This accords with his view that human beings
and the Earth herself are also cosmic, and embedded in
the cosmos. Indeed, the fact that festivals of Easter, St.
John’s Tide, Michaelmas, and Christmas fall at the turn-
ing points of the vernal and autumnal equinoxes and the
summer and winter solstices reflect this cosmic aspect of
Christianity.
From Easter through Michaelmas, from spring through
autumn, our senses move outward. The soul expands
toward the Earth and the cosmos. Then from Michael-
mas through Easter, from autumn to spring, the Earth
moves inward. It contracts, and our souls withdraw into
themselves. Easter’s resurrection of the Christ and of the
Earth is mirrored in the Michaelmas thought that, as the
world can go safely to its winter grave, so souls can like-
wise move inward with confidence—because resurrec-
tion will come. Easter’s own resurrection—a rising from
the grave—serves as a reversal of autumn’s movement
toward its wintry grave. Christmas celebrates the birth
of Jesus and the birth of light into the Earth. St. John’s
Tide invites us to contemplate the baptism of Jesus by
John, the coming of the Christ being into Jesus, and the
beginning of the waning of earthly light.
In addition, each calendar verse has its own “mirror.”
verse 1 is echoed in verse 52; verse 2 finds its echo in
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verse 51; and so on. The whole is all a sacred and cycli-
cal continuity.
In all of this, Steiner’s ideas are very close in flavor and
spirit to those of Native American spirituality, with its
deep, esoteric honoring of the Earth and its cycles. Per-
haps this is why the practice of the Calendar of the Soul
(as well as other anthroposophic practices, such as biody-
namics) seems so appropriate today and on this continent.
Many tribes do their planting only at certain seasons of
the Moon and harvest these plants only at specific hours
of the day. Like Steiner, the Native Americans understand
the interweaving of the divine, the cosmic, and the earthly.
Steiner’s closeness with the cosmos is also echoed in the
Native American use of “grandfather,” “grandmother,”
“father,” “mother” as names for cosmos and Earth.
W e e k 19 ( J u ly 2 7– A u g u s t 2, 2 0 0 8 )
To surround mysteriously
With memory what I have newly received
Must be my striving’s deeper meaning.
To do so will awaken
My own powers, which are growing
stronger within me
And which, ever becoming, will give me
to myself.
N ow, in mid-summer, we are still being richly fed by
the senses. Even as the Earth seems to be growing
tired, a wealth of beauty still surrounds us. Now we must
begin to take this abundance into our memory. Like an
animal storing food for a barren winter, we store the
meaning of summer’s richness within our souls.
We must remember and hold in our hearts summer’s
soul message. Our souls are strengthened by our abil-
ity to sustain the memory of receiving summer’s gift of
knowing that we are part of a larger cycle, the journey
from birth to death to birth that is our cosmic path.
We strive to fortify our souls so as to take into our mem-
ories all the cosmic richness and meaning we can hold.
We are at a crossing point. As the Earth begins its long
process of waning, we are beginning the journey toward
the soul strength that will sustain us inwardly during the
winter months.
We take the late summer gifts into our souls and our
hearts, and we know that, like the seasons’ inexorable
movement, one into the next, we too are always becom- Intention: This week I will honor my sense of soul-growth,
ing. We are always creating, always moving from the and know that, without its presence in a greater essence,
already been to the not yet, always strengthening in the it would die. Understanding this, I will make a special
present what will happen in the soon to be.
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And as we do this, we give ourselves a gift grander than
any earthly gift. We find our own truth. We give to our-
selves our Self.
Intention: This week, as I take in the sensual joy that
will become memories for the future, I will experience
reverence in the knowledge that I am greater than just my
personal self. I am also my Higher Self, and a part of a
greater cosmic cycle.
Week 20 (August 3 – 9, 20 08 )
For the first time I feel my being,
Which, far from world existence,
Would soon be extinguished in itself
And, building only on its own foundation,
In itself would kill itself.
A
s the seasons move one into the next, our soul power
grows and changes. Now, as summer already begins
to show traces of autumn, we build the soul-strength that
we will need to carry us and the world through the com-
ing seasons. Our own essence is awakening.
We look within and see our self. We look to the Earth
and see the summer season: lush, yet fading. And we
realize that, without our relation to the world, our souls
would be extinguished. We need the world to understand
who we are. We need an outer in order to exist in the
inner, just as we need both in-breath and out-breath. We
need to see the world with clarity to see our own truth.
We stand at a turning point. We have breathed out into
the lushness of summer. Now we are outside, even as it is
within us. We hold the memory of summer within us as
soul strength, as we prepare to turn inward during win-
ter’s long seasonal inbreathing. We know that, as we feel
our existence in the world, we are a part of an ongoing
cosmic dance.
Without the part that we play in the world, we would
soon extinguish ourselves. We would kill our souls with
the lack of knowing anything beyond us or greater than
us. We need the evolving of the world in order to evolve.
We need the transcendent in order to understand the
immanent. To build our foundations, we cannot stand
only within our own souls. We must stand firm in the
world as well. We must be the part of the world that we
were born to be. We must take life from the world, and
offer life back to the world.
If we are to live, we must live as a part, not apart.
effort to honor the world as well.
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Week 21 (August 10 –16,
I feel a foreign force fruiting,
Strengthening to give me to myself.
I sense the seed ripening
And light-filled prescience weaving
Within me on my selfhood’s power.
20 08 ) summer into autumn, we notice that this light appears
to be diminishing. Mornings are darker. Evenings come
sooner.
But even though the sunlight is moving away from its
summer brilliance, the cosmic light is not gone. Light does
not only illuminate the things of the world. The light that
pours from the cosmos also pours into our souls as the
presence of the sacred: the divine illumination within all

A s the year moves slowly into its time of rest, we feel things. Divine light, having sustained the Earth through-
ourselves awaken. As we watch the world evolving, out the summer months, now bears its fruit within our
we understand that this is the season of the Earth’s fruit- souls.
ing, and we contemplate what this outer fruiting means Invisibly and silently, the cosmic light is moving into
within our souls. each of us, preparing us to be the light that lights the
The Earth is ripe. Yet amid this ripeness, we see signs world. The light from the cosmos penetrates our souls,
of decay and tiredness. We delight in the bounty of the and we feel spirit growing within us. Our souls become
fruits and berries bursting forth to feed our bodies; but stronger, more powerful, and more able to carry the
at the same time we feel an inner newness, something world soul within us.
recalled from other seasons. Blossoming within, we feel Even as we nourish our bodies from the fruits of the
restless. And we know that this restlessness, this growing, Earth, we become the fruit that will sustain the soul of
is the beginning of our own soul’s fruiting. the world. It is all a dance of being and becoming, wax-
Soon we will be the ones who feed the world soul. Soon ing and waning, feeding and being fed. Such is the dance
we will sense more consciously the power of the self. Soon of life. Without it the cosmos would darken and die. As
we must find within our souls the cosmic soul that we we move together with the cosmos through September, a
still experience through our senses. This is our season of holy light passes into us.
preparation. Intention: This week, as I notice the apparent waning of
Living between the fullness and the decay around us, a the light, I will feel reverence for the part that I play in
prescient inner knowing is germinating. We sense a light carrying the cosmic light within my soul. I will use this
within; different from the light we have known outside all light to illumine all that I do, and I will do it all in a state
summer long. We are growing. Inwardly, our own inner of devotion. I will offer my own light to those who live in
power is expanding. soul-darkness.
In the endless dance of becoming, we feel the stirrings
of soul-fruiting. We know that we must become the inner
fruit that feeds the cosmic soul. As we harvest the Earth, Patsy Scala is the vice president and a
we nurture our souls. director of the Center for Spiritual and
Cultural Unity in Syracuse, NY, a not-for-
Intention: This week, as I enjoy the harvest offered by profit organization that is a resource for
the Earth, I will be aware of the growing force within my those in search of a complete life in body,
soul. I will begin to prepare myself inside for the seasons soul and spirit (www.cnyspirituality.org).
when my soul will become the food for the world soul. Formerly a vice president at Merrill Lynch,
she recently retired after twenty-seven years with the firm.
Patsy’s first book, Seven Steps to Everyday Mysticism,
W e e k 2 2 ( A u g u s t 17–23, 2 0 0 8 ) was published in 2002. She has spoken extensively
in Unity churches on the theme “Creating Prosperity
The light that comes from cosmic widths of space in Your Life.” A long-time student of Anthroposophy,
Lives on powerfully within, Patsy is a member of the Anthroposophical Society in
Becoming the soul’s light America and the First Class of the School of Spiritual
And shining into the spirit depths Science. She lives on Mystic Mountain in New
To release the fruits Woodstock, New York, with her husband Joseph and
That will in time allow the human self their dog Muffin.
To ripen from the world’s self.

A cosmic radiance— sacred, holy, and vast—pours itself

forth to illumine all things, and give light to all that is.
As the months and seasons turn, August into September,
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To u c h i n g the Wo r l d
Dan M cK anan
SteinerBooks NYC Seminar Presentation
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Dan McKanan Ph.D., is associate
professor of religion and chair of the
Theology Department at the College of
St. Benedict and St. John’s University.
Educated at Harvard, Vanderbilt,
and the University of Chicago, Dan
has dedicated his professional and
personal life to recovering peace,
justice, and community at the
heart of Christian life and theology. He is especially
interested in the contribution of the esoteric Christian
stream, including Anthroposophy, to these issues. His
most recent book is Touching the World: Christian
Communities Transforming Societies, a study of
The Catholic Worker Movement and the Camphill
movement from this point of view. The following talk
was given at the 2008 SteinerBooks Spiritual Research
Seminar at New York University in NYC.
In my comments this morning, I would like to do two
things. First, I will provide an overview of my book
Touching the World, which is a study of both Catholic
Worker and Camphill communities. In its original form,
Touching the World also dealt with Brook Farm and
other intentional communities of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and I will touch on that material as well. I hope
that this overview will not only inspire you to buy my
book, but will give you a sense of why I think Camphill
has such profound healing power and why I believe that
Camphillers and Catholic Workers can learn much from
dialogue with one another and with participants in other
intentional community movements.
In the second part of my presentation, I will reflect
more directly on how that dialogue might deepen our
understanding of the practice of healing. Specifically I
will consider the ways “healing,” as practiced at Camphill
and in other anthroposophic contexts, might connect to
the practices of “liberation” and of “resistance” that fig-
ure more prominently in some of the other social change
movements I have studied. And I will invite all of us to
reflect on ways to bridge the real and apparent divisions
among these practices.
My first part begins with snapshots of three intentional
communities that I know well.
It is Saturday morning, and the kitchen at the Des
Moines Catholic Worker house is buzzing with activity.
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Church groups, Grinnell college students, and a pack of
Cub Scouts all appear at the door, either to drop off food
or to help serve the daily meal. It is clear that there are
more volunteers than necessary, but each person has a
story to share. An older man, wrestling with the wounds
of a recent divorce, wonders if his faith is calling him to
a change of lifestyle. A United Parcel Service manager,
intrigued that one of his part time employees is also a
live-in volunteer at a homeless shelter, peruses the hun-
dreds of newspaper clippings about anti-war demonstra-
tions that line the walls. A high school senior prepares for
her trip to the Worker’s sister village in Chiapas, Mexico.
A family volunteers as a group to support their son’s inter-
est in urban justice. A father discusses anarchist philoso-
phy while his twelve-year-old son plays chess with sev-
eral homeless men he has befriended. A college professor,
visiting to research a book on intentional communities,
is invited into the game and soundly defeated. And hold-
ing court at the center of it all is Carla Dawson, who
arrived at the Worker house as a homeless single mother
and is now often described as the community’s “franchise
player.” Carla tells stories, barks orders, stirs soup, and
greets each newcomer with a warmth that seems born of
lifelong friendship.
Saturdays at Camphill Village Minnesota are usually
quieter, but once a year this rural village of eighty people
hosts several hundred visitors for its Open Day. Mostly
residents of the nearby towns of Sauk Centre and Long
Prairie, the visitors are traditional folks who work hard
on farms and in offices, spend their free time with their
children, and worship at Lutheran or Catholic churches.
A few Amish families, also from nearby farms, mingle
with the crowd. As they take a hayride through Camp-
hill’s field, the visitors learn about a lifestyle that is both
similar to their own and very different. The Camphill-
ers share their love of the land and their determination
to preserve a beleaguered agricultural economy, but their
farming is shaped by “biodynamic” principles that forbid
the use of chemical pesticides and require that planting
and harvesting follow the astrological rhythms of the
heavens. Rather than traveling to a distant office, Cam-
phillers alternate between work shifts in the home, the
garden, and traditional craft shops that produce wooden
toys, woven rugs, and hearty cookies. Though they work
as hard as their neighbors do, they receive no individ-
ual salaries. Decisions about family vacations or private
school tuition must be negotiated with the entire village,
though there is usually enough money to go around. Per-
haps most importantly, adults with developmental dis-
abilities are at the heart of Camphill life, and on Open
Day they are especially eager to show off the community
that they have built up. Sarah, who has Down syndrome,
rushes about, offering a boisterous hug to everyone she
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recognizes. Mike, who grew up on
a farm just ten miles away, beams
with pride as he reports on the calves
and baby goats born on the farm this
year. Martha rocks back and forth,
clutching her Cabbage Patch doll, as
she makes a joke about the name of
each person she meets. “Is your name
Daniel? Daniel have to tell another
joke!”
Turn the clock back one hundred
fifty years, and Martha would fit in
at Brook Farm, a village of farm-
ers and Transcendentalists located
just outside Boston. After serving
a hearty, mostly vegetarian meal,
the waiters sit down to eat their
own supper. Others linger outside
the windows, waiting for the puns
to begin. “Is there any difference
between Puseyism and puppyism?”
asks one Harvard-educated waiter.
“Yes, sir,” answers another. “Puppy-
ism comes from dogmatism, but Pus-
eyism from catechism.” A young boy
gets up from the table early; as the
chief and only member of the Knife
Scrubbers’ group, he has a keen sense
of his responsibilities. Later, most of
the community sprawls on the floor,
listening irreverently as Margaret
Fuller, a Transcendentalist who pre-
fers individual to communal action,
gives one of her famous “Conversa-
tions.” But they are all ears the next
morning when William Allen, one of
the few experienced farmers at the
community, teaches them the proper
way to plant potatoes. The commu-
nity’s founder spends the day shovel-
ing manure while his wife washes lin-
ens, provoking bemused speculation
about whether less cultivated persons
might have done the same work in
half the time. Yet the whole commu-
nity, children of privilege as well as
workers bankrupted by the Panic of
1837, can come together with neigh-
bors from the “outside” for a festival
of masquerades and ghost stories.
The Des Moines Catholic Worker,
Camphill Village Minnesota, and
Brook Farm, along with dozens of
communities like them, can easily
be lifted up as heroic alternatives to
a mainstream society that is fatally
corrupted by competition, consumer-
ism, and capitalism. They can also be
dismissed as irresponsible utopians
who have renounced the fallen world,
preferring personal purity to social
responsibility. Neither characteriza-
tion does justice to the mixed and
mingled character of life at a Catho-
lic Worker house, a Camphill village,
or a nineteenth-century “Association”
like Brook Farm. It is true that par-
ticipants in each movement live, or
lived, in ways that are quite different
from those of their neighbors. These
differences are often heroic and occa-
sionally self-righteous; sometimes
they are both at once. But Catholic
Workers, Camphillers, and Associa-
tionists also live with their neighbors.
They worship together, serve together
on school boards, share vegetables
and political opinions and gossip.
Community members are eager to
share the insights they have gleaned
from cooperative living, but they are
also willing to learn from their neigh-
bors. It is in this living together, this
mingling with others, that intentional
communities can do the most to
instill values of cooperation, equality,
and love in society as a whole.
Over the past five years, I have vis-
ited more than a dozen communities
affiliated with the Catholic Worker
and Camphill movements, as well
as several freestanding communities
inspired by those movements. I have
also read widely in the records of
these movements and of nineteenth-
century “Associationism.” All three
movements were born in times of cri-
sis—Associationism after the Panic
of 1837, Camphill and the Catholic
Worker during the Great Depression
and Second World War—though they
built on diverse religious and ideo-
logical foundations. Catholic Worker
founders Peter Maurin and Dorothy
Day drew on the “distributist” strand
of Catholic social teaching, which
emphasized personal responsibility,
decentralism, and the liturgical foun-
dations of social justice. Karl König,
the first leader of Camphill, was a dis-
ciple of Christian esotericist Rudolf
Steiner, who also inspired Waldorf
schools and biodynamic agriculture.
Associationism blended the utopian
theories of French socialist Charles
Fourier with the native-born zeal of
New England pacifists and nonre-
sistants; most of its adherents were
loosely affiliated with the Unitarian,
Universalist, Quaker, or Swedenbor-
gian churches.
The communities affiliated with
each movement also vary in their
structures and missions. Most Cath-
olic Worker communities are houses
of hospitality in which persons expe-
riencing homelessness share daily life
with those who have chosen a life of
poverty; others are small, sustainable
farms that also practice hospital-
ity. Camphills are villages of fifty to
a few hundred inhabitants in which
persons with and without disabilities
work together at farming, gardening,
and traditional crafts. Associations
aspired to be economically produc-
tive townships in which manual and
mental work would be equally attrac-
tive and traditional social hierarchies
would dissolve.
Despite their diversity, the three
movements all defy the stereotype
of the sectarian or utopian com-
mune. Camphillers, Catholic Work-
ers, and Associationists are not
escapists who would create a pri-
vate heaven while letting the rest of
the world burn. Instead, they aspire
to be “a beacon for all on the path
toward social renewal,” to “create
a new society within the shell of the
old,” or to achieve “Christ’s idea of
society.” And they have rarely imag-
ined that theirs was the only path to
a new society. One long-time Cath-
olic Worker spoke for many when
he reflected that “there were times .
. . when I wondered if we, far from
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behaving even a notch better than of purpose achieved by them. But

the national average—and I con- they wanted something different for
cluded that we probably were not.” The founders of each their own communities. The promise
Such sober self-assessments go hand movement were aware of Brook Farm, wrote Elizabeth Pea-
in hand with a determination to con- of communities that body (herself an extended community
tinue experimenting, searching for practiced celibacy, member of sorts), was that it would
the right balance between idealistic and they reflected preserve “the sacredness of the fam-
withdrawal and creative engagement ily” that had been violated by other
with the large society. This flexibil- long and hard on the communities. Dorothy Day affirmed
ity allowed Associationism to help stability, devotion, and “the normal life in this world today
launch the American labor movement, singleness of purpose and always is that of the family,” and
the Catholic Worker to transform achieved. insisted that the key to social renewal
the ways Americans think about per- was “the re-creation of the Catholic
sons experiencing homelessness, and family, that microcosm of society and
Catholic religious order, and the pio-
Camphill to reveal the profound gifts type of the Mystical Body.” Families
neer of Boston’s classical music com-
of persons with disabilities. that could not do hospitality full-
munity; Camphill and the Catholic
In my research, I have focused on time could still be “Catholic Work-
Worker have inspired potters, weav-
the practices that allow intentional ers” simply by taking a single person
ers, organic farmers, college profes-
communities to maintain a flexible into their homes. Camphill, for its
sors, and entrepreneurs.
engagement with the larger society. part, has made the family a build-
This commitment to vocation
Each movement, for example, has ing block of its communal structure:
means that each community must
honored the diverse vocations of its each village is organized into dis-
accept, even celebrate, the decisions
individual members, recognizing tinct households, in which long-term
of individuals whose vocations lead
that fully developed persons provide houseparents (often but not always a
them out of the community. “The
vital points of contact with the larger couple with children) anchor the life
gold moves on and the dross remains,”
society. In the nineteenth century of disabled villagers and short-term
observed Dorothy Day ironically, and
Associations, vocational discernment volunteers.
she frequently admonished depart-
was achieved through what Fourier Each community has thus “made
ing members not to imagine that the
called “attractive industry”: mem- room” for families in both a literal
community would collapse without
bers performed only those tasks for and figurative sense. The Association-
them. Camphill’s “young coworker”
which they felt a personal attraction ists imagined that they would liberate
program, similarly, attracts twenty-
(either to the work itself or to the women by establishing communal
year-olds from around the world,
other workers), and shifts rotated kitchens and nurseries, but in prac-
many of them drawn simply by a
every few hours to satisfy the “but- tice, most parents preferred to care
desire to travel between high school
terfly passion” for variety. Camphill for their own children and eat some
and college. These young people are
has a similar structure; during my meals at a family table. The Associa-
introduced to new ways of eating,
summers at Camphill Village Minne- tions that lasted longest were those
caring for others, and honoring the
sota, I often found myself the head of that made the transition to a “cottage”
environment, which they in turn can
a cooking crew in the morning and system with minimal conflict. Most
apply to lifestyles far beyond the vil-
a garden or garbage-collecting helper long-term Catholic Worker families
lage. And at most Catholic Worker
in the afternoon. Catholic Workers anchor their own small communities
houses, individuals with established
achieve the same end through less (or simply maintain a “Christ room”
careers participate in house activities
formal means: in many houses, no for a person in need), reconfigur-
as “extended community” members,
specific demands are placed on vol- ing household space with each new
often moving from the “charitable”
unteers, who are thus free to take stage of their children’s development.
work of hospitality to a more radical
personal responsibility for tasks Camphill parents, likewise, insist on
critique of the American social order.
ranging from meal preparation to having meals that are just for the fam-
Another important practice is the
comforting depressed guests to per- ily, or incorporate other community
embrace of family life. The found-
forming civil disobedience at military members into their family rituals. “If
ers of each movement were aware of
installations. Such experimentation we were reading stories in the eve-
communities that practiced celibacy,
can allow many vocations to emerge. nings,” said Roswitha Imegwu, who
and they reflected long and hard on
Brook Farm formed labor organizers, grew up at one Camphill and raised
the stability, devotion, and singleness
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do that in the living room so that any-
one else who wanted to share in that
story could do that.”
The benefit of making room for
families is that families and children
provide links to the larger society.
“Children are great community build-
ers,” noted Catholic Worker mother
(and grandmother) Willa Bickham.
“If you have a child, you go walking
around the neighborhood and talk
to everybody.” At Anathoth Com-
munity Farm, which was inspired
by the Catholic Worker movement,
parents Mike Miles and Barb Kass
invited their son’s second grade class
for a visit, establishing a tradition
that lasted through his high school
graduation. This connection allowed
the surrounding community to per-
ceive Anathoth as good neighbors as
well as radical peaceniks. Parents at
Camphill Copake, similarly, found
that service on a school board helped
build ties with suspicious neighbors.
A third practice common to all
three movements is that of honoring
the diverse spiritual paths of their
members. Each movement has under-
stood itself as “Christian,” indeed, as
an attempt to live out the values of the
Sermon on the Mount or realize the
Kingdom of God on earth. But, with
a few exceptions, these communities
have not expected every member to
share this Christian identity. All have
been pioneers in ecumenical and
interfaith dialogue. The Association-
ists believed (perhaps with a touch of
arrogance) that the concrete practice
of gospel ideals would dissolve the
artificial divisions of creed, and took
pride in the presence of Jews, Catho-
lics, and freethinkers at their commu-
nities. (Liberal Protestants, however,
were consistently the majority.) Doro-
thy Day is well known for the ortho-
doxy of her Catholic faith, but from
the beginning, the Catholic Worker
has stood in solidarity with the Jews
and learned from the nonviolence of
Gandhi. Camphill has an even more
intimate relationship with Judaism,
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Like a diluted
homeopathic remedy, a
handful of committed
people can bring about
significant change simply
by choosing to live in a
new way.
insofar as many of its founders were
Viennese Jews who had converted to
the Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner,
and it draws deeply as well on the
Moravian tradition of Jan Comenius
and Nikolas von Zinzendorf.
It is relatively easy, of course, to be
hospitable to a few individuals who
are obviously “different.” What is
even more striking is the way these
communities have allowed individu-
als of the “dominant” tradition to
follow wayward spiritual paths. The
nineteenth-century Associations
provided a seed-bed for the Spiritu-
alist movement, even as other Asso-
ciationists were converting to Roman
Catholicism. Camphill has encour-
aged its members to explore Buddhist,
Jewish, and Native American wisdom,
sometimes from within the frame-
work of Steiner’s Anthroposophy, but
sometimes not. The Catholic Work-
er’s emphasis on liturgy has led some
members into the Orthodox church,
even as others have turned their criti-
cal attention from the government
and corporations to the hierarchi-
cal, sexist, and homophobic practices
of the Catholic Church. And Kathe
McKenna, whose Catholic Worker
community may have more Buddhists
than Catholics, once observed that
“We’ve had people leave the Catholic
Church. We’ve had people become
serious Quakers while they’ve been
involved with us; we’ve had people
leave the Quakers. . . . If anybody is
alive spiritually, they’re searching.”
Community life is especially con-
ducive to spiritual searching, I
believe, because it forces people to
put their spiritual ideals into prac-
tice. All Christians talk about loving
the enemy, welcoming the stranger,
and sharing their possessions; these
communities provide concrete ways
of actually doing so. Once one is
immersed in this “practice” of Chris-
tianity, a variety of things can happen.
Some communitarians discard Chris-
tian creeds and rituals as pale substi-
tutes for a fully Christian lifestyle;
others become increasingly attached
to the rituals; still others are drawn
to other spiritual traditions that offer
different paths to the same practices.
In almost every case, the spiritual
journey leads the individual to make
connections beyond the boundar-
ies of the community, thus allowing
communal ideas to diffuse into the
larger society.
None of these practices—culti-
vating individual vocations, making
room for families, honoring diverse
spiritual journeys—is without cost.
Though they can enhance the expe-
rience of communal life, they invari-
ably draw vital energies out of the
community. The nineteenth century
Associations folded within a decade
or two, largely because of their com-
mitment to individuality, families,
and spiritual diversity. The Catholic
Worker and Camphill have proved far
more enduring, but both movements
are characterized by revolving door
memberships and economic “precar-
ity.” If longevity were their only goal,
these communities would do well to
build higher walls (both literal and
figurative) around themselves.
What Catholic Workers, Camphill-
ers, and Associationists have done
instead is to remain open to both
death and resurrection. The Associa-
tionists began by imagining that the
entire world would be transformed in
a few years, but eventually concluded
that their communities had “tried to
live before [their] proper time, and, of
course, must die and be born again.”
Dorothy Day affirmed early on that
“What we do is so little we may seem
to be constantly failing. . . . But unless
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the seed falls into the earth and die,
there is no harvest.” Karl König, like-
wise, admonished his followers that
Camphill would not succeed until its
values had been so widely diffused
that it could no longer be recognized
as Camphill.
Such guidance, rooted in one of the
central themes of the Christian theo-
logical tradition, expresses a profound
social wisdom. Too often, Christian
social activists assume that we must
either work “inside” or “outside” the
system—either withdrawing into
countercultural ghettoes or partici-
pating fully in conventional political
and corporate institutions. Camphill,
the Catholic Worker, and Associa-
tionism suggest that there is a third
way. It is possible to experiment with
radically new social arrangements
while maintaining a constructive dia-
logue with our neighbors. In a world
threatened by ecological catastrophe,
persistent poverty, and a troubling
new imperialism, such communities
have a vital role to play in helping us
all envision a new society.
That, in short, is my understanding
of how intentional communities can
be part of the social transformation
that our world so desperately needs.
Now I will turn to the second part of
my presentation. What might a dia-
logue among Camphillers, Catholic
Workers, Associationists, and other
activists teach us about healing?
It should be evident by now that the
healing of society has been central
to the work of all the communities
I have studied. And, to a significant
extent, they share an understanding
of what healing means. All assume
that social healing must be holistic:
it is not enough just to change gov-
ernment structures, or economic
structures. Instead, all aspects of our
being-together stand in need of heal-
ing. At the same time, all assume that
small changes in the social body can
have profound effects. Like a diluted
homeopathic remedy, a handful of
committed people can bring about
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significant change simply by choos-
ing to live in a new way. And, finally,
Catholic Workers, Camphillers, and
Associationists all agree that the heal-
ing of society must go hand in hand
with the healing of nature. All have
incorporated agricultural labor into
their community ideal, even though
farming is certainly not the best way
to build a strong economic base for
community. This is because, as one
of Brook Farm’s founders noted,
one can most easily become a full,
healthy human being by engaging
nature’s rhythms through farming.
Despite these commonalities, how-
ever, Camphillers and Catholic Work-
ers have generally been unaware of
one another’s movements, as well as
of the legacy of Associationism. This
has much to do with their diverse
spiritual roots, and the different
vocabularies for social healing that
stem from those roots. Some words
and phrases used by Camphillers can
be off-putting to Catholic Workers,
and vice versa. Indeed, this applies
even to our theme of “healing”—
this word is simply not as prominent
in the Catholic Worker movement,
and in some of the other Christian
social change movements I know, as
it is among Camphillers and Anthro-
posophists. So I’d like to conclude
my presentation by exploring some
of these differences of vocabulary.
It may be that, in order to heal the
world, we also need to heal the dif-
ferences in our words.
To get this started, let’s do a bit of
brainstorming. What words, phrases,
images, or practices come to mind
when I say “healing”?
What words, phrases, images, or
practices come to mind when I say
“liberation”?
What words, phrases, images, or
practices come to mind when I say
“resistance”?
Now please listen as I read a brief
text from the gospels corresponding
to each of these words. Each of these
texts has a particular resonance for
some of the Christian movements
that are working today for social
transformation.
Matthew 4:23–25: “Jesus went
around all of Galilee, teaching in
their synagogues, proclaiming the
gospel of the kingdom, and curing
every disease and illness among the
people. His fame spread to all of
Syria, and they brought to him all
who were sick with various diseases
and racked with pain, those who
were possessed, lunatics, and para-
lytics and he cured them. And great
crowds from Galilee, the Decapo-
lis, Jerusalem, and Judea, and from
beyond the Jordan followed him.”
Luke 4:16-21: “Jesus came to Naz-
areth, where he had grown up, and
went according to his custom into
the synagogue on the Sabbath day.
He stood up to read and was handed
a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He
unrolled the scroll and found the pas-
sage where it was written: ‘The Spirit
of the Lord is upon me, because he
has anointed me to bring glad tidings
to the poor. He has sent me to pro-
claim liberty to captives and recov-
ery of sight to the blind, to let the
oppressed go free, and to proclaim a
year acceptable to the Lord.’”
Matthew 21: 12–13: “Jesus entered
the temple area and drove out all
those engaged in selling and buying
there. He overturned the tables of
the money changers and the seats of
those who were selling doves. And
he said to them, ‘It is written: “My
house shall be a house of prayer,” but
you are making it a den of thieves.’”
Each of the words I have high-
lighted—healing, liberation, resis-
tance—is prominent in some of the
communities and movements I have
studied, but absent in others. Cam-
phillers speak regularly of healing
but almost never of resistance. Cath-
olic Workers often see “hospitality
and resistance” as the two primary
tasks of their communities, with sig-
nificantly less emphasis on healing.
“Liberation” is the primary theme of
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various movements, rooted especially
in Latin America and in the African
American community, that have had
an especially strong influence on the-
ology as it is practiced in the main-
stream universities where I have been
a student and teacher. Thus, we can
deepen our understanding of these
three gospel passages by considering
how each term is used in the context
where it is so popular.
First, healing. This is one of the most
common words used by Camphillers
to describe the mission of their com-
munities. The Cascadia Society says
that it “is dedicated to bringing heal-
ing to human beings and to the earth.”
Camphill Copake promises to light a
“beacon” toward “a future where the
work of healing the earth unites with
the work of healing social life.” Obvi-
ously, the stress on healing flows in
part from the centrality of “curative
education” to Camphill life, but as
these quotes suggest, the healing that
happens at Camphill is not directed
only toward the children or villag-
ers with special needs. Healing also
describes what happens to coworkers
when they enter into community life,
and what happens to the earth as the
result of biodynamic agriculture and
sustainable energy practices. Indeed,
healing might be identified as one of
the most basic of human potentials.
Thus, Karl König, near the end of his
life, wrote that “simply the meeting,
eye to eye, of two persons creates that
curative education which counters, in
a healing way, the threat to our inner
humanity.”1
Second, liberation. In the late
1960s, two theologians working in
quite different contexts proclaimed
that liberation was the central theme
of the Christian gospel, and together
they sparked a range of movements
1. Karl König, Camphill Brief, Christ-
mas 1965, in Christof-Andreas Lindenberg,
“Karl König—a portrait,” in Cornelius
Pietzner, ed., A Candle on the Hill: Images
of Camphill Life, Hudson, NY: Anthropo-
sophic Press, 1990, p. 26.
that are collectively known as “the-
ologies of liberation.” In Peru,
Roman Catholic priest and theo-
logian Gustavo Gutierrez ascribed
three related levels of meaning to the
term “liberation.” First, it expressed
“the aspirations of oppressed peoples
and social classes,” and particularly
their conflict with “wealthy nations
and oppressive classes.” Second, it
suggested that poor people could, by
struggling against oppression and
assuming responsibility for their
own destiny, eventually create “new
women and men and a qualitatively
different society.” And third, it
pointed back to the gospels as the
source of liberation. “In the Bible,”
wrote Gutierrez, “Christ is presented
as the one who brings us liberation.
Christ the Savior liberates human-
kind from sin, which is the ultimate
root of all disruption of friendship
and of all injustice and oppression.”
Meanwhile, in the United States,
African American Methodist James
Cone made a similar claim with spe-
cific reference to the Black Power
movement. “Black Power,” he wrote
provocatively, “is the spirit of Christ
himself in the black-white dialogue
which makes possible the emanci-
pation of blacks from self-hatred
and frees whites from their rac-
ism. Through Black Power, blacks
are becoming men of worth, and
whites are forced to confront them as
human beings.” An organization of
black pastors echoed Cone’s theology
by declaring that “The message of
liberation is the revelation of God as
revealed in the incarnation of Jesus
Christ. Freedom IS the gospel. Jesus
is the Liberator! . . . The demand that
Christ the Liberator imposes on all
men requires all blacks to affirm their
full dignity as persons and all whites
to surrender their presumptions of
superiority and abuses of power.”
Clearly, the theme of “liberation”
as developed by Gutierrez and Cone
implies both a “yes” and a “no”—yes
to the aspirations of oppressed people,
understood in psychological and eco-
nomic as well as spiritual terms, no to
the social structures of racism, sex-
ism, and capitalism that bring about
oppression. That “no” sounds even
more clearly in the theme of “resis-
tance” as it is used in the Catholic
Worker movement. The “Aims and
Means,” one popular statement of
Catholic Worker ideals, declares that
our “capitalist” and “bourgeois” soci-
ety is “far from God’s justice” because
of its emphasis on violence, privilege,
and the acquisition of material goods.
In the Catholic Worker movement
today, “resistance” functions as
umbrella term for the many ways in
which Catholic Workers oppose war
and systems of injustice. Many Cath-
olic Workers stress confrontational
tactics: massive demonstrations, civil
disobedience at weapons facilities,
sabotage of weapons, tax resistance.
A few choose to write letters to their
legislators or even run for office
themselves. (Given the Worker’s tra-
dition of anarchism, election-time
newsletters often feature debates
about the pros and cons of voting.)
In all these activities, Catholic Work-
ers draw inspiration especially from
Ammon Hennacy, a charismatic
leader in the movement in the 1950s
and the 1960s. At the height of the
Cold War, Hennacy persuaded other
Catholic Workers to resist the civil
defense drills required in New York
City, as a way of pointing out that
no one would survive a nuclear war.
In his personal life, he worked as a
day laborer in order to avoid paying
taxes that might support warmaking.
He picketed constantly, and never
stopped trying to persuade others
to embrace his pacifist and anar-
chist principles. He was waging, he
said, a “one-man revolution,” and
when asked if he expected to change
the world he replied that “I may not
change the world, but I’ll work so the
world won’t change me.”
How do these three themes fit
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has a very positive connotation—it
implies saying “yes” without saying
no. Especially in the Camphill con-
text, “healing” talk typically focuses
on drawing out and building up inner
strength—not on fighting against
disease, illness, or the demons who
figure so prominently in gospel sto-
ries of healing. “Resistance,” on the
other hand, seems to imply a saying
no without saying yes. As such, it
can be very hard for Camphillers to
understand. When I told one Camp-
hill friend about Catholic Worker
resistance, she replied, incredulously,
that she could not imagine life in a
community that was defined by what
it was against.
The tension between healing and
resistance raises some important
questions. Is it possible to say yes
without saying no, or vice versa? Can
we really practice healing if we do
not pay attention to the patterns and
structures of illness, whether these
are biological or economic, spiritual
or psychological? Conversely, can
we sustain a practice of resistance
to injustice without a deeply positive
sense of what justice looks like?
Liberation, as explicated by Guti-
errez and Cone, might seem to offer
a middle path—a way of saying
both yes and no. Yet there remain
very important tensions between the
vision of liberation theology and the
social vision that is carried by Camp-
hill communities. In fact, I have
often found myself rather disoriented
in the Camphill context because my
own religious perspective has been so
deeply shaped by liberation theology.
In particular, liberation theologians
are typically wary of many ways of
talking about the “spirit”—indeed,
they often see “spiritual” talk as one
of the oppressive systems that Chris-
tians must say “no” to. To be more
specific, they are wary of the idea that
poor or oppressed people should not
worry about their suffering because
they will receive a spiritual reward
in heaven. And they are wary of the
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Spirit was seen
as “higher” than
matter, and this basic
hierarchy in turn
contributed to the
full range of social
hierarchies and
oppressions.
use of spiritual language to minimize
the real differences between poor
and rich people. They much prefer
Saint Luke’s version of the Beati-
tudes, in which he says “Blessed are
the poor,” over Saint Matthew’s ver-
sion, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.”
Even to talk about spiritual poverty,
for the most radical liberationists,
is a distraction from the liberating
struggle of materially poor people in
the here and now.
This reluctance to spiritualize pov-
erty goes hand in hand with a cri-
tique of what is often called “mind/
body” dualism, or “spirit-matter”
dualism. Liberationists, and indeed a
great many contemporary Christian
theologians, are critical of the ways
in which classical Christian thought
placed spirit and matter in a hierar-
chical relationship. Spirit was seen as
“higher” than matter, and this basic
hierarchy in turn contributed to the
full range of social hierarchies and
oppressions. Men oppressed women,
my liberationist teachers taught
me, by claiming to be more spiri-
tual—and less bodily—than women.
Whites claimed to be more spiritual
than blacks, the rich to be more spiri-
tual than the poor. The destruction
of nature was justified because it was
merely matter, not spirit. And all of
this, I was also taught, was foreign
to the original message of Christian-
ity. Spirit-matter dualism, my teach-
ers told me, was not Christian but
Greek. The true Christian view was
Hebrew, they said—and in Hebrew
there is just the person, no distinction
between mind and body.
I say all this to give you a sense of
the confusion I experienced when
I first encountered Camphill. Here
were people who cared deeply about
nature, and who stood in solidarity
with people with developmental dis-
abilities—one of the most oppressed
groups in mainstream society. Yet
these same people were always talk-
ing about “spirit,” and in ways that
sounded suspiciously like the “dual-
ism” I had been taught to mistrust.
I came gradually to see, of course,
that Steiner’s threefold understand-
ing of spirit, soul, and body is quite
different from dualism—though I
hope that some of you can help me
to understand this difference in more
detail. But I don’t want to move too
quickly to “explanations,” as if my
initial confusion were only about me.
I suspect that similar confusions are
common whenever people from the
“Christian Left” encounter anthro-
posophic initiatives. I suspect they
are even more common when secu-
lar leftists meet Camphill communi-
ties, Waldorf schools, or biodynamic
farms. We love the work that is being
done out of Anthroposophy. But all
the spirit talk makes us wonder, “Isn’t
it possible to love nature for its own
sake?” And the strong emphasis on
healing makes us ask, “What about
resistance? What about struggle?
What about fighting the good fight?”
There may be easy answers to these
questions. But I’d like to conclude by
inviting all of us to seek, not the easy
answers, but the answers that will
truly speak to all the different sorts
of people who are seeking peace, jus-
tice, reconciliation, and liberation. If
we can heal the divide between “heal-
ing” and “resistance,” we may be one
step closer to healing the Earth.
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S i x M e d itati o n s Rays of human hearts

Remembrance warmed striving —
Such, Christ, are your native places
R u d o l f St e i n e r
In the Father’s earthly house—
T r a n s l at e d by C h r i s to p h e r B a m f o r d You we summon from our own breast,
You we seek in our own spirit:
Rudolf Steiner composed hundreds of meditations of O live with him [or her].
many different kinds. Most often, they were written
for individual students and those who asked for them. Radiant, shining human love,
However, he also wrote verses for himself, for his own Warming solar ray—
intimate life and as part of his spiritual research. Here Such, Christ, are your soul’s raiments
are six that readers might find helpful. They are from In the Father’s human temple —
Mantrische Sprüche, Seelenübungen II (CW 268). You we summon from our own breast
—Christopher Bamford You we seek in our own spirit:
O help in him [or her].
For one seriously ill, February 1925
To H e lp O t h e rs
‰‰
I immerse myself in the Deepest powers of soul within
me.
There, in feeling, I live in the eternal in my soul. For those Fall e n in War
As the point is without extension in the circle
Spirits of your souls, active guardians,
So is the eternal without bodily being within me.
May your wings bring the protection
With this bodiless being I call to mind Of the human spheres entrusted to you
Aiding in the spirit…. [Insert name] To our souls’ petitioning love,
So that, united with your might,
May the power to be yourself grow stronger in you. Our petition may stream in aid
May the light that shines in your own being revive To the souls who lovingly seek you.
within you. September 1914

May the soul warmth that streams from your own ‰‰

spirit warm you through.
Notebook, no date Spirits,
Who watch over the souls of the spheres,
‰‰ Who weave the souls of the spheres,
Who, protecting human souls,
May my thoughts, Work lovingly out of world-wisdom:
Spirit-grown, Hear our petition and behold our love
Make their way That, intuiting spirit and radiating love,
From my soul to yours. Would unite with your aiding streams of power.
May they work January 1918
In the ground of your heart’s soul
And fill what you strive for in your own way ‰
With life drawn from the spirit.
Notebook, no date
In Danger of Death
‰
Spirit of my life, protecting companion,
Hearts that love,
May you be kindness of heart in my willing
Suns that warm —
May you be human love in my feeling
Such, Christ, are your footprints,
May you be the light of truth in my thinking.
Leading us to the Father’s world —
No date
You we summon from our own breast
You we seek in our own spirit:
O strive to him [or her].

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W ilt T h o u B e M a d e W h o l e ?
H ealin g in the Gospel s
G eo rg Kü h lewi n d
I n t rodu c t ion by M ic h a e l L i p son , p h . d.
“B eware when the great God lets loose a
thinker on this planet,” wrote Emerson.
He might almost have been speaking
of Georg Kühlewind (1924–2006), the
Hungarian chemist, linguist, philosopher
and mystic who shocked heavenward all
those fortunate enough to meet him.
There was always something a bit dangerous about
Georg’s presence. It was not ill will: no one could be
more compassionate. It was not a dark mood: no one
could have a lighter wit, even in the face of horror. It
was nothing unbalanced: no one could draw on health-
ier psychic roots. Yet there was a sense of things on the
move, of discoveries that might take you who knows
where, of having to put down your baggage and for once
run free. Freedom: that was the danger in Georg’s pres-
ence, threatening to everything in us that wants stasis
and self-protection. It included a great sense of liveli-
ness, like pure oxygen, and this miraculous spacious-
ness occurred even in the simplest of conversations. As
Georg’s beloved Rainer Maria Rilke wrote,
See, I live. But from what?
Neither childhood nor future are diminished:
Existence, past all reckoning, springs forth in my heart.
Georg had a look, a glance, a way of communicating
intensely with his eyes, that conveyed a special flavor
of intelligent love. This glance was an expression of his
total concern for everyone in the meditation groups he
taught. When someone was missing from the group after
a break, for instance, he always knew whom it was, even
in a group of eighty people he had just met. Listening to
the often-cloudy meditation reports by participants, he
would fasten on just the gem, the light, and refer to it
later in the midst of his teaching. His own meditation
reports opened the theme to us, always from a different
angle, and with a different intensity, than we expected.
Though the theme had seemed abstract and theoretical,
his report could demonstrate a devotional, loving aspect
we had not imagined.
When participants reported on their meditation with
quotations or old thoughts, Georg would occasionally
meet their contribution with a searching, “Do you know
that?” For despite his scholarly approach to literature,
music, linguistics, psychology, and epistemology, Georg’s
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orientation toward spiritual worlds was experiential from
start to finish. His own books are the account of what
he himself experienced; they are not musings, or con-
glomerations of the insights of others. When asked about
matters of karma or cosmic history of which he had no
direct meditative experience, he was happy often to say
he just did not know. Georg called himself an “empirical
idealist”: that is, someone who lives in a world comprised
entirely of meaning and makers of meaning.
In speaking of spiritual or per-
sonal matters, Georg was often
moved to tears. He had lived
through two Nazi death camps as
a youth, and suffered many losses
and confusions of fate throughout
his life. Perhaps, along with his
spiritual work, these events had
opened his heart. The impression
he gave, however, was of being able
to bear tremendous intensities of
feeling before giving way to tears.
Moreover, he could switch back,
in a breath, from the overwhelm of feeling to a fresh,
crystal-clear exploration of the subject at hand. He said,
“We have tears, sometimes of sorrow, sometimes of joy,
but then: back to the theme! That is always the gesture.”
The whole spiritual path, for Georg, is there in our funda-
mental capacity to concentrate. To hear him teach was to
be aware that this capacity can be deepened to a fantastic
degree. It enabled him to listen more intimately to the
world, so uncovering whole new ranges of experience, as
when he reported on a meditation that he was reluctant
to put into words, that was not originally in words, but
that he formulated like this: “To be addressed by some-
one gives existence. Every moment, Christ is in my heart,
whispering, ‘YOU ARE.’”
Despite his gifts to thousands all over the world, Georg
did not claim to be a “good” man, and sometimes
explicitly denied that he was one. Yet he said, “The only
consequent life is the life of a saint.” He tended to the
radical formulation, thinking each thought all the way
to its end and beyond. When, in this book, he raises the
question of whether human beings are born to die, he
means it quite literally. In one of our last meetings, I asked
him if he thought that really, through our spiritual work,
we would one day, perhaps after many incarnations, be
able to live in one body without laying it down to death.
With complete seriousness, he said he did indeed think so.
I asked for examples, and he came up with several, notably
the legend of the Indian sage Bodhidharma, founder of
Zen, and a favorite of Georg’s. According to the story, after
Bodhidharma’s death in China in about 540 ad, one of
his disciples met him walking back toward India, barefoot
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but carrying one sandal on a stick over his shoulder. The
disciple rushed to Bodhidharma’s tomb, dug it up, and
found it empty—except for the other sandal, which he had
left behind in his haste to emerge from the grave. Those
of us who love Georg are probably willing now for him to
progress through purely spiritual forms. Still, we would
be delighted, if not entirely surprised, someday to find
him walking in the Vienna woods, carrying one sandal,
whistling silently, or clapping with one hand.
Expressions such as “glory,” “faith,”
“life,” “power,” and “word” are
anything but the Sunday-school
window-dressing, the spiritual
garnish, they can seem to be
to our cliché-worn eyes.
“bear the beams of love,” as Blake put it, we can awaken
What if, as Georg suggests, the world were not mean-
ingless but vitally important? What if you had a mission,
a mission urgent and vast enough to drive you into and
through a complete human existence? It’s worth consid-
ering, since this is the message of the New Testament and
especially of the “miraculous” healings explored in this
deeply exciting book.
In Georg’s view, the healings are neither histories nor
symbols. Rather, they are reports of events as meditations.
This means that we can only approach them through a
radically different kind of consciousness, an altogether
new intensity of understanding. We miss everything if we
read them as accounts of magic, or as supports to reli-
gious belief, or as literature.
The Prologue to the Gospel of Saint John, in words
Georg said we almost “cannot take seriously enough,”
claims that creation originally “was life in Him, and the
life was the light of human beings.” Divine life, which cre-
ates the world, is also the light of human understanding
in its original force. The same life, re-creating, became
the substance of Jesus’ healings and can now become our
understanding of them. This means that there cannot be
a meditative reading of the healings that does not also
heal the reader.
Along the way Georg shows that expressions such as
“glory,” “faith,” “life,” “power,” and “word” are any-
thing but the Sunday-school window-dressing, the spir-
itual garnish, they can seem to be to our cliché-worn
eyes. Instead, as in his earlier Becoming Aware of the
Logos, he explains them as terms of art, referring to
specific spiritual processes that can make an immediate
difference in the structure of our own minds. To work
our way into their full benefit, such terms must become
for us something like musical scores to a musician: in
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living them out, performing them, we realize what they
are all about.
Georg gives us an entire spiritual psychology in these
pages. Its cogency, however, depends on our going through,
with some energy, the “ponderings,” and meditations he
offers in each section of the text. To do this, it can be help-
ful to work with a friend or two. One enlivening way to
approach a meditation is first to deny it, to argue against
it, and then, releasing this intentional refusal, to find your
way into a more intimate affirmation.
The healing direction of the texts takes us into a realm
of non-duality, back from the sick individualism by which
we cut ourselves off from the Source. Healing reconnects
what the Fall split apart: the human and the divine. How-
ever, our normal, body-oriented consciousness simply
cannot take the intensity of a non-dual experience of the
divine. This is why the shepherds, for example, are afraid
of the angelic host (Luke 2:9). To endure the light, to
as I AM, or true self. Once we have learned this unusual
strength of being, we also turn out to be strong enough
to put aside the anxious sheath that separates us, and we
can merge playfully with the very heart of the world.
All of this can seem too good to be true. We have for-
gotten that such things are possible. We have a hard time
imagining them. We have long since stopped hoping for
them. It can seem that to achieve the reordering of the
universe that Georg describes is simply beyond us. And
so it is! For the realm of healing is not to be achieved at
all, but rather approached through moments of wonder
and awe, the way innocent Parzival stumbled upon the
Sacred Mountain. Nor does it exist for “us,” for the self-
pointing, selfish self; but instead healing arises in our for-
gotten, silent, innermost, and most unconsciously famil-
iar self. If you are ready for the Great Adventure, Georg
will lead you with a sure step through the brambles of
terminology, up the foothills of insight, and suddenly out
over an astonishing vista.
Michael Lipson, Ph.D. is a clinical psy-
chologist practicing in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts. He is the translator of Ru-
dolf Steiner’s Intuitive Thinking as a Spiri-
tual Path and of Georg Kühlewind’s From
Normal to Healthy. Dr. Lipson’s work
combines the insights of Rudolf Steiner
with those of Zen Buddhism. He teaches meditation
widely and writes on issues of consciousness, human
development, and meditative practice. He is the au-
thor of Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative
Life (2002).
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School of Geomancy
With Marko and Ana Pogacnik
Two-and-a-half-year program – seven unites at various locations
Beginning September 11, 2008 and concluding October 2010

This program will provide teaching on geomancy and personal growth. It is com-
posed of seven units, all of which are vital to complete the program and develop
the inner skills needed to practice this art.
Ana and Marko Pogacnik have, during the last fifteen years, developed an
original approach to geomancy. Working with vital forces, elemental beings,
and spiritual centers of the landscape is linked to the awakening of the personal
sensitivity and inner evolution of the participants. As a result, participants have the possibility
of finding their way in perceiving and interpreting phenomena, both inner and outer, without
being attached to a particular technique or belief system. The basis of the teaching is a holistic
means of perception that includes body, mind, and heart, coupled with the freedom of loving
the Earth and Cosmos.
Each program will be held in different places across the country; participants will give sug-
gestions on places to work and help arrange events. The first unit will be at The Roundhouse,
a retreat center in Colrain, Mass.

MARKO POGACNIK was born in 1944 in Kranj, Slovenia, and studied sculpting at university. He has acquired
an international reputation in conceptual land art and has developed this into Earth “lithopuncture,” with
the goal of healing disturbed landscapes and Earth’s power points. He is the author of
numerous books, including Venice: Discovering a Hidden Pathway (2008);
Sacred Geography: Geomancy: Co-creating the Earth Cosmos
(2008); and Turned Upside Down: A Workbook on Earth Changes
and Personal Transformation (2004).
ANA POGACNIK, born in Slovenia in 1973, is an
archaeologist and pianist living in Munich. She
conducts educational programs and collaborates
with her father Marko Pogacnik in earth-healing
projects throughout the world. In 2001, she founded
the Schule “Wieder Sehen.” Ana has published
numerous books (in Slovenian and German), in
which she hopes to encourage self-development
and a better understanding of the landscape.

FOR INFORMATION:
Call Marsha Post at 413.528.8233, ext. 203
Email geomancy@steinerbooks.org
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