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RU D O L F S T E I N E R P R E S S
SOPHIA BOOKS
2011/12
Bringing Spirit to Life
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Based on brief, pithy quotations from Rudolf Steiner’s collected works, the
‘spiritual perspectives’ in these volumes present core concepts on various
subjects. These brief extracts do not claim to provide exhaustive treatment
of the subject, but open up approaches to the complexity of Steiner’s
extraordinary world of ideas. Some readers will find these fragments sufficient
stimulus in themselves, whilst others will use the source references as signposts
towards deeper study and understanding.
Rudolf Steiner
On Epidemics
Spiritual Perspectives
‘If we can bring nothing up out of ourselves except fear of the illnesses
which surround us at the seat of an epidemic, and if we go to sleep at night
filled with nothing but thoughts of this fear, then we create unconscious
replicas, imaginations, which are drenched in fear. And this is an excellent
method for nurturing bacteria...’ – Rudolf Steiner
OCT Trans. J. Collis; compiled by M. Gut (Selected lectures, various GAs); RSP; 72pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm;
2011 978 1 85584 262 5; pb; £7.99
Rudolf Steiner
On Fear
Spiritual Perspectives
‘We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul
concerning the future that is coming towards us… We must develop
composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the
future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be
coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to
us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.’ – Rudolf Steiner
OCT Trans. J. Collis; compiled by M. Gut (Selected lectures, various GAs); RSP; 80pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm;
2011 978 1 85584 263 2; pb; £7.99
Rudolf Steiner
On Meditation
Spiritual Perspectives
‘Meditating is a totally free undertaking; it is the epitome of an autonomous
deed.’ – Rudolf Steiner
OCT Trans. J. Collis; compiled by M. Gut (Selected lectures, various GAs); RSP; 72pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm;
2011 978 1 85584 261 8; pb; £7.99
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Anthroposophy A-Z can be used as a reference guide, but also as a gateway into Rudolf Steiner’s
manifold world of spiritual ideas and concepts. Anthroposophy can be seen to be a new
language – a language that can lead to the world of the spirit. It was with this awareness that
Henk van Oort took the initiative to write this glossary. Ultimately, he has written the sort of
inspiring handbook that he wished had existed when he first became acquainted with
anthroposophy over 40 years ago.
HENK VAN OORT, born in 1943, trained as a primary teacher before taking a Masters degree
in English at the Amsterdam University. He has taught for 40 years in primary and secondary
education, including class teaching in a Steiner school, teaching English, and running educational
courses and seminars for teachers and parents. His interest in literature and poetry has led to his
appearance at storytelling and poetry seminars, and his introductory courses to anthroposophy
have proved to be highly successful. Based in Bergen N.H. in the Netherlands, Henk van Oort is
married and the father of three grown-up children. He is the author of Anthroposophy, A Concise
Introduction.
OCT RSP; 144pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm; 978 1 85584 264 9; pb; £8.99
2011
Rudolf Steiner
Sexuality, Love and
Partnership
From the Perspective of Spiritual
Science
Despite the sensibilities of his time, Rudolf Steiner made a huge contribution to our understanding
of the complex theme of sexuality. In this freshly-compiled anthology, Steiner describes the point
in evolution at which human beings split from being androgynous and single-sexed to becoming
male or female. He traces the changing roles of the sexes in society, from the matriarchal past to
today’s patriarchal dominance. The division of the sexes brings suffering, but also the possibility
of achieving higher stages of love. In the distant future, humanity can evolve sexuality into a new
form, with even the possibility of reproduction being metamorphosed.
Refreshingly, Steiner is not judgemental and does not preach asceticism. He recognizes the ‘all-
too-human’ frailty people confront in their personal lives, even in the case of great individuals
such as Goethe. Sex is a necessary stage of human evolution, and the split nature of the human
being is a fact of our age. Its healing will be gradual but, like Amfortas in the Grail story – whose
wounded groin was a metaphor for amorous misadventure – we can all be healed through love
and compassion.
OCT Trans. rvd. C. von Arnim; compiled by M. Jonas (Selected lectures, various GAs); RSP; 256pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm;
2011 978 1 85584 260 1; pb; £13.99
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The first of these books deals with fundamental human questions: Are
we free, whether we know it or not? Or, is our sense of freedom merely
an illusion? Rudolf Steiner tackles this age-old problem in a new way. By
taking account of our own activity of thinking, we can know the reasons
for our actions. And if these reasons are taken from our world of ideals,
then our actions are free, because we alone determine them. But this freedom cannot be settled for us
by philosophical argument. It is not simply granted to us. If we want to become free, we have to strive
through inner activity to overcome our unconscious urges and habits of thought. In order to do this
we must reach a point of view that recognizes no limits to knowledge, sees through all illusions, and
opens the door to an experience of the reality of the spiritual world. Then we can achieve the highest
level of evolution, and recognize ourselves as free spirits.
Trans. M. Wilson (GA 4); RSP; 264pp; 22 x 14 cm; 978 1 85584 256 4; hardback; £22.50 JUN
2011
Theosophy
An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of
the World and the Destination of Man
Theosophy focuses on a psychology based not on the usual duality of
body and mind, but on the more ancient division of body, soul and spirit.
Steiner describes in detail the functions and organs of these three aspects
of the human being, and the objective realms to which they belong. Just
as the body derives from and belongs to the material world, so do the
human soul and spirit belong to their own specific realms. These are the
dimensions through which all human beings travel in the life after death,
and in which – after passing the ‘midnight hour’ – we prepare to seek
our destiny, or karma, in a new life. Theosophy features one of the most
comprehensive and condensed of all Steiner’s accounts of these realms,
and of the experiences which our immortal being undergoes in passing
through them. The book ends with a chapter on the modern ‘path of knowledge’, in which Steiner
describes the exercises through which every person can potentially develop the latent powers of per-
ception which are necessary for a knowledge of metaphysical worlds.
MAY
Trans. M. Cotterell & A.P. Shepherd (GA 9); RSP; 176pp; 22 x 14 cm; 978 1 85584 254 0; hardback; £16.99 2011
Each volume of this series is printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies and
sewn-bound in high-quality cloth, finished with coloured end-papers and a
marker ribbon.
MAY
Trans. D.S. Osmond & C. Davy (GA 10); RSP; 192pp; 22 x 14 cm; 978 1 85584 255 7; hardback; £17.99 2011
Occult Science
An Outline
The anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner is not a theoretical system, but the
results of research based on direct observation. As Steiner’s research was
so vast and conducted over such a long period of time, no single book
can be said to contain the whole of his spiritual teaching. However, of
all his books Occult Science comes closest. Steiner even referred to it as
‘an epitome of anthroposophical spiritual science’. The book sets out,
in systematic order, the fundamental facts concerning the nature and
constitution of the human being and, in chronological order, the history
of the universe and man.
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Rudolf Steiner
Inner Nature of Music
and the Experience of
Tone
In the remaining lectures, given in 1922–23, Steiner discusses our experience of musical intervals
and shows how this experience has undergone profound changes during the course of evolution.
The religious effects of music in ancient times and the union of music with speech are considered,
as well as the origin of musical instruments out of imaginations that accompanied singing. New
insights are offered on the nature of the major and minor modes and on future directions of
musical development.
OCT Trans. Maria St. Goar (7 lectures, various cities, 1906-1923; selected from GA 283); SB; 108pp; 21.5 x 13.5 cm;
2011 978 0 88010 074 8; pb; £11.99
Peter Selg
Rudolf Steiner’s Intentions for the
Anthroposophical Society
The Executive Council, the School of
Spiritual Science, and the Sections
Written both in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Rudolf
Steiner’s birth and in the context of the long-standing, episodically
erupting and ongoing confusion surrounding the mission and task of
the Anthroposophical Society, Peter Selg seeks to recover what has
perhaps been forgotten or overlooked in Rudolf Steiner’s own words
and life. He does so by describing, clearly and objectively, the histori-
cal background of Steiner’s vision of the ‘civilizational task’ of Anthroposophy and how he had
hoped it might be accomplished.
This book has two parts. First, the author offers a lucid description of the development and
gradual sharpening – in the face of the crisis of Western culture epitomized by World War I and its
aftermath – of the vision of spiritual science as a truly Michaelic task for the Michael Age. In part
two, Peter Selg takes up the events following Rudolf Steiner’s death, outlining deftly and subtly the
struggles and developments that ensued, commenting tactfully on the questions and perspectives
that arose and continue to arise.
Rudolf Steiner’s Intentions for the Anthroposophical Society is a book for all those who care about
the reality and future of Anthroposophy.
OCT Trans. C von Arnim; SB; 96pp; 14 x 21.5 cm; 978 088010 738 9; pb; £10.95
2011
AUG SB; 144pp; 22.5 x 25 cm; 978 088010 734 1; pb; £8.95
2011
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Peter Selg
The Essence Of Waldorf Education
Schools reflect the state of society. If society is materialistic,
competitive, egoistic, technological and without concern for human
values and long-term thinking, our schools will tend to reflect those
values. However, what if education were about something else? What
if education were about the future? What if education were about
nurturing a new generation of human beings who were integrated in
body, soul and spirit, able to think for themselves and have the
capacity to love? Perhaps the world would change. The Waldorf
school, initiated and guided in 1919 by Rudolf Steiner, was conceived
with precisely such an end in view.
In this passionate, inspiring, and moving book, Peter Selg returns to the original impulses behind
the first Waldorf school to show their continuing validity. Waldorf Education is not a theory but a
living reality, and Selg brings this reality to life before us through the biography of the first Waldorf
school. We learn to see this education in a new way – as a healing model of what education
might become if the primary relationship, the inner core of a school, is the free relationship
between teacher and student.
Michael Lipson
Group Meditation
‘This book comes from joy.’ With these words, Michael Lipson
begins his offering, the fruit of many years of study and practice.
Group Meditation is both a practical introduction to the power of
meditation in groups and a challenging review of the meaning of
meditation itself.
With repeated exercise, either in isolation or in community, attention oriented toward a high
meaning grows more concentrated, more intense. It frees us to drop our self-concern and,
instead, take in the full shock of our shared existence on Earth. It helps us, finally, ‘to be, our-
selves, the news from heaven’.
MAY SB; 128 pp; 18.5 x 14 cm; 978 088010 730 3; pb; £10.95
2011
This book points to the historic and spiritual importance of the first Goetheanum building. Rudolf
Steiner’s lecture on October 25, 1914, and his lecture on the paintings of the small cupola on
January 25, 1920, are published here in English for the first time, along with colour photographs
from 1922. Also included are the little-known coloured etchings of the Goetheanum window
motifs made by Assya Turgenieff with Rudolf Steiner, as well as other centrally important
contributions to an understanding of this new direction in art.
Though the main emphasis is on visual examples, the book achieves something more than simply
cataloguing these works of art. The book conveys, too, a sense of the artistic process itself. Thus,
Gerard Wagner’s observations have a special relevance. In addition to the two lectures by Rudolf
Steiner and the paintings by Wagner, The Goetheanum Cupola Motifs of Rudolf Steiner presents
essays from Peter Stebbing, Louise Clason, Assya Turgenieff and Gerard Wagner.
OCT Trans. P. Stebbing; Foreword S.O. Prokofieff; SB; 248 pp (full colour throughout); 21.5 x 28 cm; 978 088010 737 2; hb; £35
2011
Angela Lord
Easter
Rudolf Steiner’s Watercolor Painting
This full-colour book explores the deep meaning of Rudolf Steiner’s
watercolour Easter (or Three Crosses) painted in April 1924. The
reader is led to contemplate the profound mysteries of not only
colours and the sense world, but also the divine, cosmic, human
invisible reality lying behind them and manifested in the unique event
we celebrate as Easter.
At first, the colouring and composition of the painting seem relatively simple. But the longer one
meditates upon it, questions begin to arise: Why did Rudolf Steiner use the rainbow sequence of
colours?; Why are the crosses so small, seen only from a distance?; Who or what are the white
figures ‘below the earth’?; What is the painting really about?
Answering these questions, artist Angela Lord draws on a wide range of anthroposophic and
other sources to illuminate the enormous mystery of Easter itself. She delves into the mysteries
of colours as Steiner uses them—from the polarity of red and black, the contrast of orange and
green, the radiance of yellow and blue and the enigmatic presence of white and violet, to an
experience of the painting as a beautiful rainbow.
Written by award-winning author, Diana Cohn and brilliantly illustrated by award-winning artist
Amy Córdova, Roses for Isabella will touch the hearts of children and parents, as well as
introduce them to the cultural traditions of Ecuador.
OCT Afterword by Lynn Lohr; SB; 32pp; 23 x 23.5 cm; 978 088010 731 0; hb; £12.95
2011
Many years before, from the faraway land of Spain, men in long robes, who called themselves
Brothers of St Francis, came to the land of the Nahuas. They brought with them the lovely roses of
Castilla, and they told wondrous stories of the Son of the Great Creator, the one they called the
Lamb. The holy stories etched deep and vivid pictures in Talking Eagle’s mind.
This is the traditional story, told simply and elegantly, of how Juan Diego meets the beautiful Lady
on a windswept hilltop in December and carries her message to the disbelieving bishop.
OCT SB; 40pp; 23 x 23.5 cm; 978 088010 719 8; hb; £12.95
2011
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The Philosophy of
Spiritual Activity
Trans. W. Linderman
(Written 1894, GA 4); SB;
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Edited by
Hélène Jacquet
Christmas Plays
from Oberufer
Paradise Play – Shep-
herds Play – Kings Play
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