Theosophy and Anthroposophy Books

Book SynopsisAlthough still in its earliest stages, artificial intelligence (AI) is radically transforming all aspects of society. With the immanent emergence of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) and the illusory temptations of `transhumanism’, mankind stands at a crossroads. In Humanity’s Last Stand, Nicanor Perlas makes an urgent plea. It is imperative, he says, that we take immediate steps to ensure that digitized technology is aligned to human values and priorities. Otherwise, ASI will kill the essence of our humanity. Further, if we do not master it now, ASI will transform mankind into its own image. Ultimately, it will destroy the human race. AI experts have not offered a single cogent solution to this existential threat. Rudolf Steiner, however, not only foresaw these developments, but gave clear alternatives. Steiner, the founder of a contemporary, scientific approach to spirituality, provided philosophical, ontological and social innovations to save humanity from the abyss. It is the task of the global anthroposophical movement to pioneer this civilization-saving work: to establish spiritual-scientific ideas in mainstream culture that would allow AI to emerge in a healthier societal context. Perlas gives an overview of the phenomenon of AI, together with its related transhuman concepts of `perfecting humanity’, and outlines the critical internal and external responses required to meet them with consciousness. In particular, he addresses the movement connected to the work of Rudolf Steiner, indicating its all-important tasks: to cooperate with progressive individuals and movements, including scientists and civil society activists; to mobilize its `daughter’ movements for action; and, ultimately, to cooperate with the spiritual powers that have guided and served humanity since the dawn of time. This, says the author, is humanity’s last stand, and failure is not an option.Table of ContentsPreface – Part I BRAVE NEW WORLD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) – Chapter 1. The World is on Fire! – Chapter 2. Utopia or Extinction? – Chapter 3. Awakening to our True Humanity: The Way Out – Part II PREPARING FOR SPIRITUAL BATTLE – Chapter 4. Spiritual Opponents Fuelling the Potential for Technological Apocalypse – Chapter 5. Anthroposophy: In Defense of the Truly Human – Chapter 6. The Mission and Ways of Evil – Chapter 7. The Two Milestones of the Global Anthroposophical Movement – Part III SELF AND COLLECTIVE MASTERY TO SERVE THE WORLD – Chapter 8. Self Mastery: Preparing Our Self for Spiritual Battle – Chapter 9. Accessing the Support of the Keepers of Humanity – Chapter 10. Collective Human Intelligence (CHI) – PART IV ACTIVATING THE DAUGHTER MOVEMENTS – Chapter 11. Conditions for Decisive Action – Chapter 12. The Strategic Role of the Bio-Dynamic Agriculture Movement – Chapter 13. The Truth-Force of The Youth Movement – Chapter 14. The Original Daughter Movements: Dynamos to Awaken, Nurture and Defend the Truly Human – Chapter 15. The Second-Generation Daughter Movements: Widening the Horizon of Impact – PART V FORMING ALLIANCES WITH OTHER SPIRITUAL MOVEMENTS – Chapter 16. The Second and More Spiritual Scientific Revolution – Chapter 17. Answering the Four Grand Temptations of Artificial Intelligence – Chapter 18. The Sleeping Giant: Global Civil Society 2.0 – Part VI LEARNING FROM FAILURE: THE LAST STAND – Chapter 19. The Wisdom of Failure – Chapter 20. The Last Stand – Chapter 21. The Micha-elic Will and the Future of Humanity – Dedication – Appendix – For More Information – Notes

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Book SynopsisIn an extraordinary exposition, Lorenzen - an expert beekeeper and student of contemporary spiritual science - describes the `Logos mysteries', based at the ancient temple of Artemis in Ephesus, where priestesses were known as `Melissas' (`honeybees') and the sacrificial priests were called `Essenes' (or `bee-kings'). These cultic mysteries, he says, bore remarkable parallels to the workings of a bee colony - specifically in the relationship between the queen and worker bees to the spiritual `group-soul' of the bees. Lorenzen commences his unique study with a discussion of flowers and insects, exploring their common origins. He then describes the beginnings of the honeybee, its connection with the fig wasp, and the subsequent controlled transformation of the latter that took place in pre-historic mystery-centres. Breeding the honeybee from the fig wasp - a sacred deed performed at consecrated sanctuaries - was part of the `Fig-tree mysteries'. The initiates behind this task developed the ability to commune with the bees' group-soul and to work consciously on the mutual development of the hive and humanity. This concise but rich work features an illuminating foreword by Heidi Herrmann of the Natural Beekeeping Trust as well as a lucid introduction by translator Paul King that explains the anthroposophical concepts employed by Lorenzen in his text.Table of ContentsForeword - Introduction - BEES AND THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES: 1. Flowers and Insects - 2. The Origin of the Honeybee - 3. Fig-tree Mysteries - 4. Bee Realm and Logos Mysteries - Notes - Further Reading

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative anthology, Angela Lord presents a unique series of commentaries on art, aesthetics and colour by three of western culture’s greatest intellects. Her comparative study of the works of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Rudolf Steiner illustrates how each of these towering thinkers employed an individual and groundbreaking approach. Yet, remarkably, there are common threads that weave through their collective works that have previously been overlooked. By selecting and extracting specific quotations and arranging them in particular sequences, Lord throws light on texts that have often been restricted to theological and academic study. Through this exposure, she reveals their relevance to the Arts today, showing how their content can stimulate an enhanced awareness of truth, beauty and knowledge in our lives. Art Aesthetics and Colour also offers us the opportunity to reinterpret the works of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas in the light of Rudolf Steiner’s contemporary spiritual-scientific insights. In addition to the extensive quotations from the three historical figures, Lord provides brief biographies, an introduction, notes and a bibliography. The book is well-illustrated throughout and includes colour plates.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Chapter One, Biographies – Chapter Two, Art – Chapter Three, Aesthetics – Chapter Four, Colour – Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow are the internal and external forms of the human organism shaped? How does human consciousness emerge? These are questions to which conventional science has no answers. In The Seat of the Soul, Yvan Rioux invites us to consider new concepts that can explain these phenomena. His exposition is based on the existence of external `formative forces’ – or morphic fields – which, he argues, create the human body or organism in conjunction with forces that resonate within us from the living solar system. The psyche – or soul – emerges progressively as an inner world of faculties that in time learns to apprehend and understand the outer world. In his previous book The Mystery of Emerging Form, Rioux explored the formative forces of the twelve zodiacal constellations. In this absorbing sequel, he investigates how such activity from the planetary spheres works within us, as `life stages’ or metabolic processes. Through seven chapters, he explores the impact of each of these planetary spheres on our complex organic make-up and psychic activity. The link between organs and tissues, he says, produces five specific `inner landscapes’ in relation to the external rhythmic environment. Rioux also gives a description of Rudolf Steiner’s seven `planetary seals’ from a biological perspective. According to Steiner, these seals are: `…occult scripts, meaning that, as hidden signatures, they show their ongoing etheric impacts on the seven stages of our metabolism’. Between Steiner’s indications concerning human physiology and the ancient Chinese view on the subject, there is a convergence of ideas – as synthesized here – that breaks through the boundaries of modern reductionist science, offering exciting perspectives for understanding the human being. `The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.’ – NovalisTable of ContentsIntroduction – Chapter 1: Saturn process: Opening the door of perception, Towards the integration of subtle influences – Chapter 2: Jupiter process: Preservation of outer perceptions, Establishment and defence of the territory (immunity) – Chapter 3 – Mars process: The essence of pulsations, The beginning of the psychic world – Chapter 4: Sun process: The circulation of perceptions, Access to inner perception (insight) Chapter 5: Mercury process: From pictorial images (psyche) to material organs (soma) – Chapter 6: Venus process: Energized movements for growth, A constant search for the right fulcrum point – Chapter 7: Moon process: Replication (mitosis vs meiosis) Self-renewing life – Conclusion: A planetary alignment giving birth to our physical and psychic world

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Book SynopsisBased on a remarkable series of lectures delivered in his native Israel, Dr Ben-Aharon presents his illuminating research on the meaning of Judaism and the spiritual mission of the Jewish people in the past, present and future. The Hebrew people have been a central root in the development not only of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but of the universal human spirit itself. Thus, a new understanding of their development and contribution to the spiritual biography of humanity is essential to understanding ourselves as human beings. The Jews were chosen to reveal the deepest secret of ancient times: the existence of one God above all gods, being the Creator of all human beings - beyond race, nation and gender - in his divine image. The great historical and spiritual figures of the Hebrew people - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joseph, the Judges, Kings and Prophets - prepared humanity for individuation - the true `I AM' - through devotion to the divine foundation of the world. `The Lord our God is one', who is to be loved with all one's heart, soul and being. Each person could now fulfill the Word, which could be actualized on earth - in the human being. In Jerusalem Dr Ben-Aharon describes the evolution of the Hebrew people and its role in the development of the human race. The journey continues to the present day, where the universal human Self has the potential to become a free participator in the ongoing creation of the universe. `The better I understand the roots of the Hebrew people and its universal-human mission, the better I shall understand the nature of humanity and its mission; and the more human I become, in the most universal sense, anchored in a new spiritual knowledge and practice, the more fulfilled, active and creative I can be at the roots of my existence as a Jew and an Israeli.' - Yeshayahu Ben-AharonTable of ContentsForeword - Introduction - The Evolution of Human Consciousness and the Stages of Individuation in the History of the Hebrew People - The Death of the Earth and its Resurrection, the Cosmic Picture - Creative Evolution - The Initiation of Isaac - The Initiation of Moses - The Initiation of King David - The Essence of Hebrew Initiation

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Book SynopsisMany people who are drawn to Buddhism today are seeking for spiritual knowledge as opposed to simple faith or sectarian belief. Hermann Beckh had a profound personal connection to the Buddhist path and the noble truths it contains, yet he was also dedicated to a radical renewal of Christianity. Assimilating the groundbreaking research of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), Beckh's comprehension of Buddhism was neither limited to historical documents nor scholarly research in philology. Rather, from his inner meditation and spiritual understanding, he saw the earlier great world religions as waymarks for humanity's evolving consciousness. In the modern world, the apprehension of Christianity needed to be grounded firmly in a universally-valid, inner cognition and experience: `In this light, knowledge becomes life.' Hermann Beckh - Professor of Tibetan Studies and Sanskrit in Berlin, subsequently a founding priest of The Christian Community - first published this mature study in 1925. Having already produced the comprehensive Buddha's Life and Teaching in 1916, Beckh's sweeping perspectives combined with his extensive academic knowledge provided a unique grounding for authoring this work. As he notes, From Buddha to Christ follows a path of development, `both of method and goal'. Thus, studying this book is itself a path of knowledge and potential initiation. Beckh's universal insights remain relevant - and if anything have gained in value - to twenty-first century readers. This edition features an additional essay, `Steiner and Buddha: Neo-Buddhist Spiritual Streams and Anthroposophy' (1931), in which Beckh, for the first and last time, explains his lifelong personal connection to the Buddhist path. `Christianizing the Buddha's impulse at the same time broadens the Christian horizon...' - Hermann BeckhTable of ContentsPreface - I. The Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life - II. The Gospel of Birth and Death: The Knowledge of Repeated Lives on Earth and of the Law of Destiny - III. Knowledge: The Four Noble Truths and the Twelve Causes - IV. The Path - Appendix: Steiner and Buddha (Neo-Buddhist Spiritual Streams and Anthroposophy)

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Book SynopsisAlthough this classic text is more than one hundred years' old, its accurate scholarship, detailed research and lucid presentation make it no less relevant today than when it was first published. In 1916, Hermann Beckh was one of a handful of leading European authorities on Buddhist texts, reading Tibetan, Sanskrit and Pali fluently. At the same time, he was a member of the Anthroposophical Society and its Esoteric Section. In consequence, Beckh's seminal study on Buddhism has an entirely unique quality. It invites the reader to engage freely with the Buddhist Path, although in many ways re-expressed and renewed by Rudolf Steiner, whilst discovering its universal validity through the original texts. For the most part, Beckh allows these texts to speak for themselves, as eloquently now as ever. In the first section, Beckh presents Gautama Buddha's life from legend and history. The second part of the book details the `general viewpoints' of Buddhist teaching and the individual stages of the Buddhist Path, including meditation to ever higher levels. Both sections are expertly collated out of a wide knowledge of the primary sources. To this academic understanding, Beckh sheds new light on the subject from his own research, based on highly-trained meditation guided by Rudolf Steiner (with whom he carried out a long-lasting correspondence that has only recently been uncovered). Dr Katrin Binder has rendered the complete German text in a natural English idiom with great accuracy and professional insight, thereby making this timeless book available to English readers for the first time in a lucid translation. New notes and an updated bibliography are also featured. `The book before us here is not some kind of dusty text or just another undergraduate-level introduction to Buddhism. It is nothing less than the still, clear, luminous centre of a hurricane...' - Neil Franklin (from the Foreword)Table of ContentsForeword - Translator's Introduction - Regarding the pronunciation of Indian words (Sanskrit and Pali) - Abbreviations - Introduction - PART 1: THE BUDDHA - General considerations - A. The Buddha of the legend - a) The sources of the legend - b) The story of the Buddha's Becoming (according to the Lalitavistara) - c) The proclamation of the doctrine - d) The Buddha's Nirvana (according to the Mahaparinibbaanasutta) - B. The historical Buddha - a) The course of his life - b) The Buddha as a human being and spiritual teacher - PART 2: THE TEACHING - A. General Viewpoints - B. The individual stages of the Path - a) Faith (saddha) as prerequisite of the Path - b) First stage of the Path: Right Conduct (sla) - c) Second stage of the path: meditation (samaadhi) - d) Third stage of the path: realization (panna) - e) Fourth stage of the path: liberation (vimutti) - Notes - Bibliographical Review (Hermann Beckh 1916) - Additional Bibliographies (Heimo Rau 1958, Katrin Binder 2016) - Hermann Beckh: Later works on Buddhism - Glossary

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Book SynopsisThe two contradicting genealogies of Jesus in the Gospels have long puzzled biblical scholars. Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research led him to the controversial theological conclusion that historically there existed two Jesus boys, born of two holy families. These two boys, he said, were necessary as part of the spiritual preparation of forming a suitable human body for the incarnation of Christ into the earthly realm. Both apocryphal texts and the writings of the Essenes - as discovered at Qumran by the Dead Sea - now appear to support this conception, with references to Messianic figures from both royal and priestly lines. Various authors have developed Rudolf Steiner's observations - first presented in the early twentieth century - although much of this literature has lacked the rigour of accurate and broad scholarship. The Two Jesus Boys is not simply a derivative rehash of these previous publications. Rather, it offers a fresh investigation of primary sources, coupled with an objective determination to allow the facts to speak for themselves. Christoph Rau thus comes to the unavoidable conclusion that Steiner's presentation of the chronology of the two births needs revision; furthermore, the most recent discoveries and interpretations of Essene scrolls reveal that the Jewish sect expected not one but three Messiahs. Rau quotes from and analyses numerous documents from the landscape of early Christianity and Judaism. His findings provide a secure foundation for the historical existence of two Jesus boys in the prelude to Christ's incarnation on earth, as well as a revelation of the Essenes' long expectation of three Messiahs.Table of ContentsIntroduction - 1. The Riddle of the two Genealogical Trees - 2. Two Childhoods - 3. Astonishing Discoveries - 4. The New Insight is Cosmically Anchored and Confirmed in Writing - 5. Contradictions, Reasons and Objections - 6. Preparation for the Unique Union - 7. The Mystery of the Twelve-year-old Jesus - 8.The Actual Chronology as the Solution to the Contradiction - 9. The Death of Zechariah-a Milestone for the True Dating of Events - 10. Zarathustra and the Star of the Wise Men - 11. Zarathustra's Becoming and Progress - 12. Krishna and the Heavenly Adam-soul - 13. John and the Earthly Adam-soul - 14. Buddha and the Nathan-Jesus-boy - 15. Two Prophecies of the Messiah and their Fulfilment - 16. The Three Messianic Figures in the Essene Writings - 17. The Letter to the Hebrews-an Early Answer to Essene Expectations - 18. The Further Effects of the Messianic Prophecy - Epilogue1909-1959-2009 - Appendix - (1) The Childhood of Jesus, According to Matthew - Commentary - (2) The Childhood of Jesus According to Luke - Commentary - (3) The Protevangelium of James - Commentary - (4) From the Quran - Commentary - Notes - Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCivil Society has become a major power in the world. The stunning defeat of the controversial and secretive Multilateral Agreement on Investments, the massive worldwide WTO protests and the yearly meetings of the World Social Forum are testimony to its coming of age. From these significant victories, civil society continued to catch world attention with the Arab Spring, the grassroots movement that helped elect former US President Barack Obama and the significant gains of the anti-fracking campaign. With tens of millions of citizens and over a trillion dollars involved in advancing its agenda, civil society now joins the state and the market as the third key institution shaping globalization. However, it cannot fully mobilize its resources and power as it currently lacks clear understanding of its identity. Shaping Globalization argues that global civil society is a cultural institution wielding cultural power, and shows how - through the use of this distinct power - it can advance its agenda in the political and economic realms of society without compromising its identity. Nicanor Perlas outlines the strategic implications for civil society, both locally and globally, and explains that civil society's key task is to inaugurate `threefolding': the forging of strategic partnerships between civil society, government and business. Such authentic tri-sector partnerships are essential for advancing new ways for nations to develop, and for charting a different, sustainable type of globalization. Using the model of the Philippine Agenda 21, we are shown how civil society and progressive individuals and agencies in government and business are demonstrating the effectiveness of this new understanding to ensure that globalization benefits the environment, the poor and society as a whole. This reprinted edition includes a new Afterword.Trade Review`Nicanor Perlas has written a brilliant exposition of a new viewpoint in social theory and practice, one that applies to all of us in our everyday lives.' - Paul H. Ray, author of The Cultural Creatives; `Nicanor Perlas lays out a framework that integrates the social, the ecological, and the spiritual in a simple and yet profound view of 21st century society.' - C. Otto Scharmer, author of Theory UTable of ContentsForeword by Paul H. Ray - Message by Dr Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker - Threefolding, the language of the new tri-polar world - Whose word? Surveying the terrain of contention - The Battle of Seattle - The threats and opportunities of globalization - Elite globalization and the world power structure behind it - Civil society as a global countervailing force - Identity crisis - Co-optation, the ironic fruit of the Battle of Seattle? - the cultural nature of civil society - Testing the framework - Cultural power - Cultural creatives and the cultural revolution of the 21st century - Civil society and the threefolding of national and global social space - Example of Philippine Agenda 21 - Tri-sector partnerships at the United Nations, boon or bane? - The juggernaut of tri-sector partnerships - Civil Society and the beginning of history - Notes - Bibliography - About the author - About Cadi - About Globalnet3 - Afterword to the 2019 edition

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Book SynopsisBuilding on her fundamental texts The Art of Acting and The Art of Speech, Dawn Langman shows how the great dramas of Western heritage illuminate the evolution of human consciousness – from the past and into the future – thus providing a context in which actors can consciously evolve their art. Having laid her foundation by exploring the Eleusis Mysteries – the seed point of Western drama – she moves to the end of the nineteenth century, when drama and performance practice prepared for its next great evolutionary leap. She explores the connection of this leap to the evolutionary threshold facing human beings at the end of what occult history calls Kali Yuga. Weaving back and forth between future, past and present – guided by the great cyclic themes of human soul and spiritual development – Langman shows how the inspiration of our greatest artists springs from a source of knowing that encompasses the high calling of the human being to mature beyond its biological inheritance, and to become a conscious co-creator with the macrocosmic powers that serve the evolution of the universe. In doing so, she clarifies the specific function drama has in our contemporary development within the spectrum of the arts.Trade Review`Building on the first two books of this extraordinary series, Langman’s meta-historical analysis of drama lays the foundation for her ongoing explorations into an art of acting that fully takes into account the multidimensional nature of the human being. Here, she masterfully contextualizes the 20th century contributions of Rudolf Steiner and Michael Chekhov within the broad trajectory of the Western dramatic and theatrical tradition’. Dr Diane Caracciolo, Associate Professor of Educational Theatre, Adelphi University, USATable of ContentsTable of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Preface – Introduction – The true names of things: reading the script, poetic and literal consciousness – Chapter 1, The key to the Mysteries: The founding myth – Chapter 2, 'It takes so many thousand years to wake': drama at the threshold – Chapter 3, When will the lost word be found? – Chapter 4, 'The fabulous wings unused': towards a drama of the future – Chapter 5, 'We shall not cease from exploration' – Epilogue, The crucible of art – Appendices: Appendix A, Additional volumes in this series – Appendix B, Therapeutic applications of Speech Formation – Appendix C, DVD recordings of Dawn Langman's lecture series: 'A Dramatic Journey through the evolution of human consciousness' – List of plays quoted or cited – Bibliography – List of illustrations – Notes

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Book Synopsis`Finding unity with Christ is not a given; it depends on turning the ego - that provides our sense of experiencing ourselves as a unique being - into an instrument of loving perception that connects with other beings. Learning to do this makes the path to Christ a path of self-knowledge, where the freedom to make mistakes and consequent error lets us see ourselves with humility as we come to know how to bring love into what we say and do.' (From the Introduction.) In order for human beings to progress, contends the author, we can no longer rely on outer authority in the form of dogma, power and control. Rather, we need to find spiritual and creative solutions from within. Fundamentally, we should discover what makes us truly human and not merely animal. `The direction of this book is to indicate how this may be addressed in artistic and imaginative terms that touch the powder, so to speak, with a different fire that ignites a different future.' With Meditations, Michael S. Ridenour provides a fresh and varied look at themes explored in his recent book The Greatest Gift Ever Given. The more meditative, intimate format of this short volume allows content and mode of expression to complement each other by expanding these themes into realms of individual experience. Part One does this by making use of a shorter poetic-commentary presentation, allowing greater variety and flexibility of focus. Part Two builds on paths of individual initiation from the esoteric Christian tradition, showing how they address contemporary concerns for greater spiritual awareness and a more perceptive quality of consciousness. Meditations is a thoughtful work that offers support for understanding and practising the contemporary spiritual path.Table of ContentsAn Introductory Meditation - Part One - Coming through the Woods . . . - The Sea Today - Why We Need Coloured Periods - Copy? - Gloria - Yellow Woman - Touching Up Eternity - Heaven Written Low - The Joys of a Shelfless Life . . . - Night Climbing by Grail Light - An Alchemical Aperitif - Beyond Measure - Hatless in the Rain - Dragon Paint - The Picture Window - The Mummy's Curse - Helen Keller at the Beach - Part Two - A Gift of Blindness for Our Time - The Mystery Question of Parzival - Creating Out of Nothing - A Last Word: No Mistake About It . . .

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Book Synopsis`From time to time in the history of humanity, extraordinary individualities appear, carrying with them great tasks which are difficult to assess. Through this lens, the events around Kaspar Hauser (1812-1833) can be seen as signposts to one of the most important mysteries of modern times, which will radiate far into the future. Kaspar’s appearance and the essence of his being are deeply connected with the question of the identity of the human being itself.’ – From the Foreword. This book offers a unique, creative approach to the mystery of Kaspar Hauser – the teenage boy who was found abandoned on the streets of Nuremberg, barely able to walk, speak or write. Introducing the subject with a historical overview, Eckart Böhmer goes on to offer multiple artistic approaches to comprehending the enigma of Kaspar Hauser’s brief and tragic life. He presents poems from his cycle I not human, I Kaspar, a short story entitled `Crossing the Border’, and a play about Hauser’s mentor, `Feuerbach or an Example of a Crime Against the Human Consciousness Soul’. These are followed by transcripts of two lectures held during the Kaspar Hauser Festival in New York, which reflect on esoteric research carried out in the last twenty years. The volume concludes with short meditations followed by an interview with the author on his biographical connections to the theme. Inspired by the Kaspar Hauser Festival in Ansbach and the Kaspar Hauser Research Circle, this valuable book offers many imaginative gems for deeper contemplation.Table of ContentsForeword – Kaspar Hauser, Child of Europe, An Essay – Nine Poems – Crossing the Border, A Short Story – 'Feuerbach, or An Example of a Crime Against the Human Consciousness Soul' – An Introduction to the Play – The Play – The Unfulfilled Mission of the Hereditary Prince, Lecture I – The Fulfilled Mission of Kaspar Hauser, Lecture II – Four Meditative Verses – Guarding the Guardian, An Interview

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Book SynopsisAs a practising Christian priest, Hermann Beckh was profoundly aware that the mystery of substance – its transmutation in the cosmos and the human being – was a mystical fact to be approached with the greatest reverence, requiring at once ever-deepening scholarship and meditation. He viewed chemistry as a worthy but materialistic science devoid of spirit, while the fullness of spiritual-physical nature could be approached by what he preferred to call ‘chymistry’ or ‘alchymy’, thereby taking in millennia of spiritual tradition. In consequence, Beckh’s Alchymy, The Mystery of the Material World is not limited to the conventional workings of Western alchemy, nor to what can be found in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation – although he does unveil hidden riches there. Neither should Beckh be considered only as a learned Professor with impeccable academic qualifications and European-wide recognition. Beckh writes about such topics as ‘Isis’, ‘the Golden Fleece’, traditional fairy-stories and Wagner’s Parsifal in a way that enables the reader to catch glimpses of the Mystery of Substance; to share the writer’s authentic experience of the divine substantia – the living reality – of Christ in the world. Beckh’s Alchymy set an entirely new standard, and went on to become his most popular publication. This is the first time that it has been translated into English, along with updated footnotes, making his ideas and insights accessible to a wide readership. In addition, this edition features translations of Beckh’s ‘The New Jerusalem’, where theology could best be expressed in verse; his exemplary essay on ‘Snow-white’; observations on ‘Allerleirauh’, and a substantial excerpt from Gundhild Kačer-Bock’s biography of Beckh.Table of ContentsForeword – Introduction by Neil Franklin – Translator's note – I. Alchymy and Man's Past: – Rosicrucianism, the Virginal Earth, the Philosopher's Stone – II. Alchymy and Mankind in the Present: – Chemistry and chymistry; The 'construction of the atom'; Salt, mercury, sulphur and the mystery of the threefold human being – III. Alchymy and the Bible (Old Testament): – The Creation, the River of Paradise, the Deluge; The secret of gold and of precious stones; Chaos and Astra, primal matter, the chymical process – IV. Alchymy and Mythology: – Isis; The Rhinegold; the Golden Fleece; Venus-Urania – V. Alchymy and the Future of Humanity: – John's Gospel and the Apocalypse of John; The Mystery of Cana (Chymical Wedding) and the New Testament; The Mystery of the twelve precious stones – Appendices – Hermann Beckh: The New Jerusalem, a meditation in verse 1 – Hermann Beckh: Snow-white – Supplement: 'Allerleirauh' – Review: Mysteries of the Material World, Rudolf Bind – Excerpt from the biographical sketch of Hermann Beckh by G. KacÏer-Bock – Notes – The Works of Prof. Hermann Beckh

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the metahistorical exploration of drama that was the subject of Tongues of Flame, Dawn Langman explores the practical pathways through which the art of acting can evolve beyond the ‘body and soul’ paradigm still broadly accepted in contemporary culture. Through the integration of Rudolf Steiner’s research in the arts of speech and eurythmy, and together with Michael Chekhov’s acting techniques, Langman raises the spiritual dimension of the human being from that vague sensing which many actors intuit – but which has, however, little bearing on their practice – into a precise methodology. In this second volume in her series on ‘The Actor of the Future’, she offers performance artists a clear pathway ahead, enabling them to develop their work out of spiritual insight and consciousness. ‘Dawn Langman’s research into character creation invites the future into the present: suggesting the intriguing connection between the evolving universe, human consciousness and the mysteries at work in relationships and destiny.’ – Penelope Snowdon-Lait, Co-director, Spirit of the Word training, New ZealandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements – Prologue – Introduction – Rudolf Steiner's Speech and Drama Lectures – Chapter 1, Building the bridge between gesture, voice and speech – Chapter 2, Sound Experience (1): Expanding the horizon of the Vowels – Ensouling the vowel – Vowel moods from Shakespeare – Mapping a character's soul journey – Chapter 3, Sound Experience (2): Vowels as key to Laughing and Weeping – Chapter 4, Sound Experience (3) – Character-types and vowels – Blood/nerve-sense polarities – From soul type to individual soul – Approaching the planetary beings – vowels as a bridge to higher worlds – Chapter 5 Our High Work Masters (1): Vowels and the Planetary Beings – Chapter 6, Our High Work Masters (2): Vowels and the Planetary Beings in Shakespeare's King Lear – Chapter 7, Our High Work Masters (3): Consonants and the Starry Beings of the Zodiac – Chapter 8, Our High Work Masters (4): Consonants and the Starry Beings of the Zodiac in Shakespeare's King Lear – Appendix A: Additional texts for blood/nerve-sense characters – Appendix B: Table of phonetic symbols – Appendix C: Additional volumes in this series – Appendix D: DVD series: A Dramatic Journey through the Evolution of Human Consciousness, Dawn Langman – Bibliography – Notes

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Book SynopsisHermann Beckh's lectures on language - published here in English for the first time - offer a unique and penetrating discussion of the origins and evolution of speech. Based on his professional knowledge of Tibetan, Sanskrit and Pali - and complete fluency in at least six other ancient languages, not to count nine modern languages - and accompanied by a heartfelt understanding of anthroposophy, the lectures comprise an unparalleled marriage of academic and meditative insights. Further, they give a valuable introduction to the author's later works on music, the stars and the Gospels of Mark and John. The Source of Speech features Beckh's complete series of articles on the subject that were developed during the early, 'seeding' period of his life and work. These include: 'Rudolf Steiner and the East', an unprecedented study of Steiner's relationship to Sanskrit and Buddhist spirituality; 'Let There be Light', Beckh's exploration of the six Hebrew words forming Genesis 1:3; articles devoted to the origins of language, Indian philosophies and the names of the Divine in sacred texts; and essays published in Das Goetheanum which examine speech sounds, especially those of Sanskrit and Classical Hebrew. Also included are contemporaneous reviews of Beckh's articles by Albert Steffen and Eugen Kolisko and a lecture on academia, materialism and the undisciplined enthusiasm for Indian spirituality, held at the University of Berlin. Nearly one hundred years on, Beckh's perspectives and themes remain as exciting, relevant and fresh as ever.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Neil Franklin - Hermann Beckh: Rudolf Steiner and the East - Indology and Spiritual Science - I. Pragmatic Etymology and Genetic Etymology with special application to Sanskrit - II. Contribution to the Vedanta Philosophy: The Teaching of Atman and Brahman and its tangible Significance in the Light of Linguistics - III. Contribution to Sankhya Philosophy: sattva, rajas, tamas And their Relationship to Goethe's Theory of Colours in the Light of Linguistics - The Names of the Divine in the Primal Word of Sacred Languages - New Ways to the Origin of Speech, Three lectures (1921): 1. Etymology and the meaning of speech-sounds in the light of spiritual science - 2. The Physical and the Spiritual Origin of Speech - 3. 'Let there be Light': The Biblical Primal Words of Creation - Anthroposophy and University Knowledge - The Sun-Mantra of the Rig-Veda - Appendix, Reviews: Albert Steffen, Etymology and the Meaning of Speech Sounds in the Light of Spir-itual Science - Eugen Kolisko, Vom Lebenswerk Rudolf Steiners: Eine Hoffnung neuer Kultur - Notes - Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLost for decades, the manuscript of Hermann Beckh's final lectures on the subject of music present fundamentally new insights into its cosmic origins. Beckh characterises the qualities of musical development, examines select musical works (that represent for him the peak of human ingenuity), and throws new light on the nature and source of human creativity and inspiration. Published here for the first time, the lectures demonstrate a distinctive approach founded on the raw material of musical perception. Beckh discusses the whistling wind, the billowing wave, the song of the birds and particularly the theme of longing. Never losing the ground from under his feet, he penetrates perennial themes: from the yearning for real spontaneity and the 'Mystery background' uniting heaven and earth, to spiritual knowledge that can meet the demands of the twenty-first century. Out of the cosmic context, Beckh writes to the individual situation. From there, he seeks again the re-won cosmic context. He does not write as a musical specialist and then turn to universal human concerns; rather, Beckh writes from universal human concerns and reveals music as of special concern to everyone. In addition to the transcripts of fifteen lectures, this book contains a valuable introduction and editorial footnotes. It also features appendices including Beckh's essay 'The Mystery of the Night in Wagner and Novalis'; reminiscences of Beckh by August Pauli and Harro Ruckner; Donald Francis Tovey's 'Wagnerian harmony and the evolution of the Tristan-chord', and several contemporaneous reviews of Beckh's published works.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Alan Stott - The Human Being and Music - 1. The Polarity of the Musical Element: the Airy and the Sound-Etheric (the Earthly and the Cosmic Element) - 2. The Two Elements as the Soul and the Spirit of Music. The Two Biblical Creation Stories. The Human Soul-Air. The Fall of Man - 3. The Two Elements in the Music from Bach to Beethoven and Chopin. The Earthly Element - Dust. The recent Epoch of Music - 4. The Two Elements of Music as 'Wind and Wave'. Strindberg's The Dream Play. Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin - 5. The Union of both Elements in the Theme of Longing in Tristan and Isolde - 6. The Motif of Longing in Tristan and Isolde - 7. The Primordial Root va - 'blowing', and the Experience of Pain. The Hibernian Mysteries. The Magic of the Mother. The Christian Mystery and Parsifal - 8. Parsifal. The Starry Quality. Karfreitagszauber and the Liebestod. A 'Super-Tonal' Style. Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. Planets, Stars and the Musical Keys - 9. The Trinity of Instruments: Strings, Woodwind and Brass in Wagner and Bruckner - 10. The Mystery of Death in Tristan and Isolde and Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. The Key of D-minor - 11. Earthly and Cosmic Music. Strindberg's The Dream Play - 12. Novalis. Nature and the Musical Element. The Mastersingers. Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony - 13. The Life of Initiation. Opera and the Musical Future. Novalis and the Musical 'Homeland'. Wagner and 'not music'. Opera and Absolute Music. Mystery Back-grounds. Tannhauser - 14. Mystery Contexts in Wagner. The Mystery of Human Life; Prophecy, Fulfilment and the Future - 15. The Christian Mystery dramatised in Music - Appendix One: Hermann Beckh: The Mystery of the Night in Wagner and Novalis - Appendix Two: August Pauli: Memories of Hermann Beckh. Harro Ruckner: A Memory of Hermann Beckh - Appendix Three: Donald Francis Tovey: Wagnerian harmony and the [possible] evolution of the Tristan-chord. Chopin's Mazurka, op. 68, no. 4, bb. 11-14 - Appendix. Book Reviews: Hermann Beckh: Buddha's Life and Teaching, Hermann Beckh The Parsifal=Christ=Experience in Wagner's Music Drama. Hermann Beckh: The Language of Tonality in the Music of Bach to Bruckner. Christoph Peter: The Language of Music in Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' - Notes - Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom ancient times, people had knowledge of the zodiac’s intimate involvement in the creation of physical life. They understood that the twelve realms of constellations of fixed stars in the sky emanated specific forces that were brought to life and movement by the planets. These spiritual energies created and formed all living beings on earth – including, of course, the human being. This traditional awareness has been reenlivened and given new meaning in our time through Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy. Steiner gave specific indications involving twelve individual gestures and colours that depict the forces of the twelve zodiacal regions. In this richly-illustrated collation of original artistic research – which features exciting new work on the zodiac via the mediums of sculpture, graphics and painting – these new insights are explored and illumined in twenty-seven essays and numerous full-colour images. Led by editor Gertraud Goodwin, the various contributing artists offer a rich tableau of authentic, individual approaches to understanding the zodiac, throwing light on the vast realm of creative forces around us whilst acknowledging their primary source. ‘From the many relationships to other qualities, like the consonants, virtues, areas of the human body, colours, eurythmy gestures, elements (earth, water, air, fire), musical keys and many more, in which the zodiacal forces express themselves as if through different instruments, a harmony begins to emerge, which informs me of an ever rounder picture of one particular force of the Zodiac.’ – Gertraud GoodwinTable of ContentsForeword, Wolfgang Held – Introduction, Gertraud Goodwin – The twelve moods / introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s verses, Gertraud Goodwin – Relations - connections - correlations, Gertraud Goodwin – Rudolf Steiner's verses for the twelve moods of the zodiac, Gertraud Goodwin – Working with the zodiac during the 12 Holy Nights, Gertraud Goodwin – Working with colour during the Holy Nights of 2017-18, Gertraud Goodwin – Working with colour during the Holy Nights of 2018-19, Marije Rowling – The formative forces of the zodiac, Edwin Boeck – Exploration of the sculptural and graphic language of the zodiac, Dorothea Kuth – Zodiac, Manning Goodwin – The twelve constellations (zyklus), Philip Nelson – Twelve coloured exercises on the virtues, Stephan Krauch – Paintings on the zodiac, Rolf Janssen – Zodiac, Doris Harpers – Zodiac, Marije Rowling – Sound images, Gerard Wagner – First zodiac, Gertraud Goodwin – Twelve reliefs on the moods of the zodiac, Gertraud Goodwin – A graphic exploration, Gertraud Goodwin – Meditations on the zodiac, Gertraud Goodwin – Zodiac – sculptures, Gertraud Goodwin – Pisces zodiac, Gertraud Goodwin – Pisces zodiac and the present age, John Salter – The blue window in the first Goetheanum, Torsten Steen & Gertraud Goodwin – Carved reliefs of the zodiac, Reimar von Bonin – Exploring the relationship between Reimar von Bonin’s carved reliefs and the capitals of the small domed space of the first Goetheanum, Gertraud Goodwin – The formation of the capitals of the small domed space as vignettes, Gertraud Goodwin – the small dome of the first Goetheanum, Gertraud Goodwin – References - reading list – Further Reading – References – Biographies

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Book SynopsisFrom Joseph Vogelsang and his mysterious peep-box to Hollywood blockbusters and Netflix, R.A. Savoldelli’s survey of cinema and film is based on practical experience – he was once the enfant terrible of Swiss cinema – and years of contemplation and study. He examines the difference between film as the ‘hypnotic monster’ referred to by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the art of film that Rudolf Steiner aspired to. The author depicts the historical development of cinema from its origins, paying particular attention to science fiction – from Star Wars to The Matrix – and influential filmmakers such as Eric Rohmer, Andrei Tarkovsky and Pasolini. As a scholar of anthroposophy, Savoldelli gives a comprehensive assessment of Rudolf Steiner’s attitude to film. In addition to frequenting the silent cinema of his time, Steiner made several statements about the new artform in his lectures, letters and private discussions. The author examines and interprets these and complements them with commentary on Steiner’s attempt to produce a film on the theme of reincarnation and karma as well as his explorations with Jan Stuten of ‘light-show art’. Other topics in this penetrating study include: ‘Basic philosophical stances in the pioneer period of media studies’; ‘Steiner’s prophetic warnings about a technocratic form of civilization that will destroy humanity’; ‘Nostalgia for the art-house cinema that emerged in the 60s’; and ‘The project discussed by Alexander Kluge and Andrei Tarkovsky for a film based on Rudolf Steiner’s From the Akashic Records’. Anyone interested in the cinematic arts will find a treasure of stimulating ideas and new thought in this unique book.

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Book SynopsisIn a series of vibrant and lively essays, Steffen Hartmann focuses on a little-known but critically important theme relating to the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Steiner described the collaboration between human souls connected to the Platonic and Aristotelian ‘schools’ or groupings – both here on Earth and in the spiritual world. These groupings of souls work within a wider metaphysical collective known as the ‘Michael School’, led by the ruling Spirit of our age, Michael. Prior to their births, millions of human souls were prepared within this School to help them face the challenges of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We may have forgotten these pre-existence experiences, but they can be reawakened within us, says Hartmann. Indeed, it is possible consciously to reconnect to our earlier incarnations and to perceive our karma. The book begins with this theme and leads to Rudolf Steiner’s ‘Michael Prophecy’ of 1924 – to his vision of the millennium and the era in which we now live, especially the crucial period between 2012 and 2033. Dealing with the ‘anthroposophical block’ in the emerging holistic building of humanity, the author contextualizes the topic with reference to direct personal experiences. The sharing of such considered experiences can help to stimulate self-reflection in the anthroposophical movement and contribute real spiritual substance to contemporary culture. This little book provides stimulation to spiritual seekers who carry within them deeper questions about life in the modern world.Table of ContentsForeword – 1. Learning to Perceive Karma – 2. Rudolf Steiner’s Michael Prophecy and the Years 2012 to 2033 – 3. Michael Prophecy and Individual Karmic Insight – 4. Michael’s Call to Us – 5. Failure and Revival in the Anthroposophical Movement – 6. The Spiritual Goetheanum Today – 7. The Collaboration of Platonists and Aristotelians and the Michael Prophecy – 8. The Island of Stones: A Fairy Tale

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Book SynopsisThis unique work – the fruit of many decades’ research and experience – throws new light on the supersensible history and karma of the Michaelic movement since Rudolf Steiner’s death. It describes that movement’s evolution and transformation in the etheric world during the twentieth century, from the world-changing apocalypse of the 1930s and 40s through to the beginning of its incarnation on Earth at the end of last century. The book also focuses on developments in the practical and social work of building the community of the School of Spiritual Science, which embodies the new Michaelic movement in our time. As Ben-Aharon indicates, the Michaelic movement is searching for creative, courageous and enthusiastic souls to foster a strong community that develops – from one decade to the next – as a living organism. Based on the continuous resurrection of anthroposophy, this community strives to create a fully conscious meeting and communication with the school of Michael and Christ in the etheric world, in a form that is appropriate and demanded by the times. The transcripts of these lectures bring together the author’s experiences with anthroposophy over the last 42 years in the light of present communications from the spiritual world. It is based on contemporary spiritual investigation and individual, lived experience. From the Contents: ‘The Amfortas-Parsifal Duality of Modern Humanity’; ‘The Twilight of Humanity and its Resurrection’; ‘The Universal Language of Michael and the Being of Rudolf Steiner’; ‘The Anthroposophical Movement in the Present’; ‘The Etheric Form is Alive’; ‘The Resurrection of the Etheric Christ in the 21st Century’Table of ContentsPreface – Foreword – The Amfortas-Parsifal Duality and its Healing – The Twilight of Humanity and its Resurrection – The Universal Language of Michael and the Being of Rudolf Steiner – The Anthroposophical Movement in the Present – The Etheric Form is Alive – Afterword, The Resurrection of the Etheric Christ in the Twenty-first Century

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Book SynopsisIn the early part of the last century, Professor Hermann Beckh began a search to discover the truth about the Mystery wisdom of antiquity. As a recognized authority on Buddhist texts, he knew that complete knowledge of such Mysteries was not to be found within the limitations of waking consciousness, sense perception and logic. Beckh was already aware that Gautama Buddha had indicated the stages of higher knowledge. Furthermore, his studies of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical teachings revealed that such knowledge could be experienced directly, given disciplined meditation. Clairvoyant cognition included the conscious penetration of sleep consciousness, the dream state and an experience of pre-natal consciousness. Both the Mysteries and Rudolf Steiner’s major books, he concluded, were founded on the same perceptions. Beckh – a worldwide expert on Tibetan, Sanskrit, Pali and Avestan texts – quickly became disenchanted with Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy, as it displayed little precise academic knowledge of primary records. At the same time, university departments showed scant trace of understanding the texts they analysed through philology and sociology. Thus, based on comprehensive studies and personal experience, he resolved to present his own perceptions and vision to the public. The results are to be found in this invaluable book, bringing together for the first time in English three groundbreaking publications: Our Origin in the Light (Genesis 1-9) (1924); Zarathustra (1927) and From the World of the MysteriesTable of ContentsForeword – I. OUR ORIGIN IN THE LIGHT, PICTURES FROM GENESIS (1924) – Introduction to Our Origin in the Light: Pictures from Genesis (N.F.) – Preface – The Dream of Eden in the Consciousness of Humanity – Primordial Creation – The Second Creation – Paradise – Eve – The Fall – Cain – The Rainbow – II. ZARATHUSTRA (1927) – Introduction to Beckh’s Zarathustra (N.F.) – Foreword – Zarathustra in the Present Age – The First Zarathustra and Primordial Wisdom – Avesta – Appendix – III. FROM THE WORLD OF THE MYSTERIES (1927) – Introduction to From the World of the Mysteries (N.F.) – Foreword – The Sacred Primal Word of Zarathustra with excerpts from the Avesta – Postscript on the name Zarathustra – ISIS—the star-wisdom of the early Egyptian Mysteries and its connections with Zarathustra – The Name Isis – The Name Eve – Buddha’s Passing – The Tree of Life – The Christ-Secret of the Early Mysteries – IV. APPENDICES – The Rainbow’s Revelation – The Dream of Eden in the Light of Christmas – Queen Māyā: the Christmas-Mystery in the Indian Flower-Garden – Etheric Formative Forces and Hieroglyphs (1926) – Egypt in the Light of the Grave and Resurrection – Notes – Bibliography: The Complete Works of Hermann Beckh in German & English

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Book Synopsis‘I wrote this book out of the needs I see at the present time. I see diseases being translocated to others – humans or animals – despite the good intentions of many therapists or doctors. The diseases are translocated because they do not exist in energetic patterns, but as expressions of spiritual beings. Energy and energy-patterns only exist in the physical world, but in the spiritual world there are only spiritual beings.’ From ancient times, all cultures have known of the spiritual phenomenon of ‘translocation’ – the movement of a pathological entity from one human being to another, or from a human being to an animal. These pathological entities are spiritual beings, known as ‘demons’ in common parlance. Their translocation, says Are Thoresen, can take place as a result of conventional Western medicine, but also from the application of ‘alternative’ therapies such as homeopathy, acupuncture and herbal medicine. In order to have a positive therapeutic impact, Thoresen advises that practitioners, doctors and veterinarians need to acquire a deep understanding of the function and laws of pathological demonic entities and the means to influence them. Using the Middle Point or Christ-force, it is possible to transform – instead of simply translocating – the negative spiritual aspects that are at work in contemporary society. As the author states: ‘I have written this book to try to investigate these possibilities, and to give my fellow travellers in spirit the insights, tools and ability to make such a change.’Table of ContentsForeword, Why did I write this book? – Introduction – Chapter 1, Disease and Pathological Entities – Chapter 2, Understanding Translocation Through Knowledge of the Development of Man and Animal – Chapter 3, From Translocation to Transformation – Chapter 4, Homeopathy, Western Medicine and Translocation – Chapter 5, Translocation of Spiritual Forces in Electromagnetic Radiation – Appendix, My Background and Insights – Notes

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Book SynopsisIn conducting his research into the mysteries of antiquity, Frank Teichmann made a series of discoveries that connect directly to contemporary events and the tasks of the present-day. Whilst scholarly in nature and based on extensive documentation of historical sites, Teichmann’s work is no dry academic study. In The Origins of the Anthroposophical Society, he offers incisive new insights into Rudolf Steiner’s seminal esoteric deed – the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference of 1923-24 – and considers how it impacts us today. The Conference itself, says Teichmann, ‘…did not just appear out of nowhere, nor did it happen merely as the result of a decision on Rudolf Steiner’s part. It was prepared for long beforehand.’ In the emergence of the anthroposophical movement, Teichmann reveals a conscious recapitulation and renewal by Rudolf Steiner of three types of primordial mystery. He states: ‘… the whole anthroposophical movement together with the Anthroposophical Society as it was re-founded at the Christmas Conference of 1923, was planned and prepared for in primordial times… All [Steiner’s] deeds, no matter how original they may appear in the foreground, have a deep esoteric background that contains the entire spiritual history of humanity.’ This renewal had been systematically prepared by Rudolf Steiner in three phases: through the evolution and intensification of thinking via the ‘mysteries of light’ in Greece; experiencing the spiritual through art via the ‘mysteries of space’ in Egypt; and, involving the ‘tasks of civilization’, the ‘northern’ or ‘earth mysteries’. Teichmann’s groundbreaking book – featuring dozens of images including his own original photos of British mystery landmarks – is published here for the first time in English translation.Table of ContentsForeword by Pieter van der Ree – Preface – Introduction – The Theory of Evolution and its Consequences – The Mysteries of the Light—the Evolution and Intensification of Thinking – The Mysteries of Space—Experiencing the Spiritual Through Art – The Malsch Building Model and the Society House in Stuttgart – The Munich Building Initiative and the First Goetheanum – The Inner Aspect of the Building Impulses – The Earth Mysteries and Taking Up the Tasks of Civilization – The Metamorphosis of the Idea of Destiny In Rudolf Steiner’s Life – The Founding of the New Mysteries – Appendix: The Foundation Stone Meditation – Notes – Illustrations – Bibliography of Works by Rudolf Steiner

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Book SynopsisDuring the brief window between the two World Wars, the Rev. Prof. Hermann Beckh led research at The Christian Community Seminary in Stuttgart. In those precious years he published on music, the gospels and the ancient Mysteries. By 1930, in his Contributions to the Priests' Newsletter, he had produced the most far-reaching account of the cosmic order ever written. The typescript of this great work was destined to gather dust in the Berlin Archiv, however, until it was discovered in recent years. Published here for the first time, it is the crowning masterpiece to Beckh's Collected Works. The translated and annotated text is accompanied by Rudolf Frieling's in-depth application of Beckh's principles of the cosmic starry order to the Creed of The Christian Community, and by a number of appreciations and relevant book reviews. Through ever-deepening meditation guided by Rudolf Steiner, and his vast knowledge of Tibetan, Sanskrit, Pali and Avestan sacred texts - scarcely to be equalled in Europe at the time - Beckh came to the first-hand realization that human and cosmic life was ordered. He perceived directly that this cosmic order was: good, as originating from the World-Will; true, as from World-Thinking; and beautiful, as from World-Feeling. All three could be personally experienced in disciplined consciousness that could enter dream, sleep and pre-natal life. This, then, was Beckh's method and inspiration, as shown in this extraordinary work.Trade Review'The time will come when Beckh's 'Christened' star-knowledge, which signifies a basic overturning of today's decadent astrology, will be appreciated for its significance.' - August PauliTable of ContentsZODIAC AND PLANETS IN RELATION TO THE HUMAN BEING with a chapter on the Anthroposophical Soul Calendar by Hermann Beckh and THE COSMIC RHYTHM IN THE CREED FOR READERS OF BECKH'S BOOKS by Rudolf Frieling with an Introduction and Reviews by Rudolf Frieling and others

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Book SynopsisWhat lies at the root of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the worldwide pandemic it has caused, affecting the health and livelihoods of untold millions of people? What are the deeper, spiritual realities behind COVID-19 and the global turmoil it has left in its trail? In an effort to answer these queries and many others put to her at the start of the pandemic, Judith von Halle composed two letters in March 2020, based on her own spiritual-scientific research. Published in this book together with an additional essay, she addresses questions such as: * Which entities stand behind the virus? * How and why does it affect human beings? * What measures can be taken for prevention and therapy? * What does the crisis mean to individuals and what possibilities does it offer for personal development? The author suggests that, apart from the material havoc triggered by coronavirus, the spiritual causes behind it are extremely serious and - if the present pandemic is not to be the first in a series of catastrophes - humanity is called upon to respond in a radically transformative way. In an additional article von Halle tackles the controversial issues relating to government lockdowns and the protest movements that have sprung up in opposition to them. How do these events point to real questions of individual freedom and, most importantly, how do they relate to the central event of our time - an event that, tragically, remains largely unknown? Revealing unexpected perspectives to the COVID-19 pandemic, Judith von Halle asks urgent and difficult questions and offers shattering insights for humanity's further development.Table of ContentsPreface - I. WHAT CAN ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SPIRITUAL SCIENCE CONTRIBUTE TO SARS-COV-2 AND COVID-19 RESEARCH? - The First Letter, Berlin, 22 March 2020 - 'Corona-Pandemic -Aspects and Perspectives' (Newsletter from the Medical Section of the Goetheanum) - About the 'Aspects' - About the 'Perspectives' - At Attempt at a Deeper Consideration of the Coronavirus Pandemic - About the Spiritual Cause of the SARS-CoV-2-Virus - On the Character of Bacteria - On the Character of Viruses - The Way SARS-CoV-2 Spreads - On the Symptoms of the COV-19 Illness - Spiritual Aspects - Commentary on Further Questions - II. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RELATING TO ESOTERIC SUPPORT FOR WORK IN THE BRANCH - The Second Letter, Berlin, 22 March 2020 - Publisher's Foreword - Overcoming Fear - How Intensifying Meditation Can be Helpful in These Times - What Does It Mean When People Can No Longer Meet? - Starting Point: Consistently Practise Soul Exercises - Suggestions for Spiritual Support for the Ongoing Work in the Branch - III. THE GREAT DIVERSIONARY MANOEUVRE - The Awareness of the Central Event of our Time, the Perception of the Christ Entity as an Etheric Phenomenon - Everything is Upside Down - Appendix: The Eight Soul Exercises by Rudolf Steiner - Notes

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Book SynopsisToday some six million Freemasons around the world continue to perform their rituals regularly - an enormous legacy of spiritual endeavour, kept largely in secret. In Britain alone there are over 7,000 Lodges, with a quarter of a million members. What is this wealth, this appeal, and how did the philosopher and spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner reinterpret or reconstruct Freemasonry's time-worn legacy? Unless one is a Freemason, the masonic world, with its arcane conventions and language, remains largely unknown: an obscurity that is almost impossible to fathom. Yet understanding its traditions and style are invaluable when approaching Goethe, Mozart, Herder, Lessing and Novalis - as well as Rudolf Steiner. Steiner himself renewed the 'Royal Art' of Freemasonry from 1906 to 1914 through his ritual work known as Mystica AEterna. When Steiner invigorated education, medicine, the social order and religion, he fully intended that committed and professional individuals should assume responsibility for the new initiatives. But this was not the case with the Masonic Order he founded, whose leadership he took upon himself. Even the celebration of his passing in 1925, led by Marie Steiner, was entirely Masonic in character. In the context of continuing resistance and misrepresentation, N.V.P. Franklin uncovers the living heart of Freemasonry and reveals why it was - and still is - immensely relevant to anthroposophy. With profound research into its older rituals and teachings, this detailed and conscientious study is a unique contribution to comprehending freemasonry and anthroposophy - both historically and in the present day.Table of ContentsPreface - Introduction - 1. Freemasonry and the Theosophical Societies. Son of Man, Can these Bones Live? - 2. The Esoteric Schools 1887-1914. The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha - 3. The High Grades of Freemasonry. And I will give thee the treasures of darkness - 4. Early Reports of Mystica AEterna. Rumour shall be upon rumour - 5. Masonic Types in Mystica AEterna. Behold, I make all things new - 6. The Rites of Misraim and Memphis. From One Degree of Glory to Another - 7. Rudolf Steiner and Freemasonry, Part 1. To cleanse the house of the Lord - 8. Rudolf Steiner and Freemasonry, Part 2. The Bright Morning Star - An Imagination - From a Lecture by Rudolf Steiner - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index to Principal Themes and Persons

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Book Synopsis'He [Harwood] is the sole Horatio known to me in this age of Hamlets...' - C. S. Lewis, from Surprised by Joy --- Cecil Harwood (1898-1975) - lecturer, Waldorf teacher, writer, editor and anthroposophist - pioneered and developed the first Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) school in the United Kingdom (the New School in London, now Michael Hall School in Sussex). He also led the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain for some 37 years. In 1922, at the age of 24, Harwood attended a festival of English folk song and dance in Cornwall, alongside his life-long friend Owen Barfield. It was here - and not in the academic citadel of Oxford University, where they were both part of the literary circle known as the Inklings - that Harwood and Barfield were to encounter the work of Rudolf Steiner through meeting Daphne Olivier. Sun King's Counsellor provides an intricate picture of the human connections, cultural movements and spiritual background that contributed to what came together in Cornwall in 1922, leading to Harwood's life's work. Featuring a colour plate section and full index, it documents Harwood's early years and antecedents, marriages to Daphne Olivier and Margaret Lundgren, friendships with Barfield and C.S. Lewis, his life-changing meeting with anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner, teaching and educational work, and Harwood's critical role in healing divisions within the Anthroposophical Society. Based on extensive research of primary sources, Blaxland-de Lange's biography reveals the multi-faceted, flexible and sacrificial nature of this unique personality. Alfred Cecil Harwood - he preferred 'Cecil' instead of Alfred, with its meaning of 'wise counsellor' - began his career with the hope of becoming a writer, and had neither the intention nor ambition to become a teacher or the head of a national organization. Yet he became both an exemplary teacher and leader, as well as a celebrated author, editor, translator and lecturer.Table of ContentsIntroduction - PART ONE: 1. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Rudolf Steiner, and a Meeting in Cornwall - 2. Family Backgrounds: Lord Olivier and Minister Harwood - 3. Personal and Professional Engagement - 4. Marriage and the Founding Years of Michael Hall - 5. Early Writings - 6. Waldorf Translator, Editor, Playwright and Author - 7. Prelude to Chairmanship of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain - PART TWO: 1. The Minehead Years - 2. The Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain in a Time of War - 3. Family Man, Advocate and Adviser - PART THREE: 1. The Destiny of Britain within Europe and the Wider World and the Individual Human Spirit - 2. The Anthroposophical Society and the Healing of Divisions - 3. Anthroposophia, New Friendships and the Role of Eurythmy - Conclusion - Notes - Index

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Book Synopsis'Barfield towers above us all... the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.' - C.S. Lewis --- 'We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison we have made for ourselves by our ways of knowing, our limited and false habits of thought, our "common sense".' - Saul Bellow --- Owen Barfield - philosopher, author, poet and critic - was a founding member of the Inklings, the private Oxford society that included the leading literary figures C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams. C.S. Lewis, who was greatly affected by Barfield during their long friendship, wrote of their many heated debates: 'I think he changed me a good deal more than I him.' Simon Blaxland-de Lange's biography - the first on Owen Barfield to be published - was written with the active cooperation of Barfield himself who, before his death in 1997, gave numerous interviews to the author and shared a large quantity of his papers and manuscripts. The fruit of this collaboration is a book that penetrates deeply into the life and thought of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. It studies the influences on Barfield by the Romantic poet Coleridge and the philosopher Rudolf Steiner (founder of anthroposophy), and elaborates on Barfield's profound personal connection with C.S. Lewis. The book also features a biographical sketch in his own words (based on personally conducted interviews), and describes Barfield's strong relationship with North America and his dual profession as a lawyer and writer. This updated edition features vital new material including Barfield's own 'Psychography' from 1948 and an illustrative plate section.Table of ContentsForeword by Dr Andrew Welburn - Preface to the Second Edition - Preface - Introduction - PART ONE: 1. Owen Barfield: A Biographical Sketch Based on His Own Words - PART TWO: Elucidation and Recognition: The Lecturer (1964-97) - 2. Owen Barfield and America - 3. Barfield and Coleridge - 4. The Vancouver Lectures: Evolution of Consciousness - 5. Positivism and its Residues - 6. The Effects of Idolatry - 7. The Force of Imaginative Thinking - 8. 'Sir, I thank God for you...' - PART THREE: The Forging of a Key: The Man of Letters (1919-64) - 9. Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis - 10. Owen Barfield and Rudolf Steiner - 11. English People - 12. Language as a Key to the Past - 13. Poetry, Drama and Magic - 14. Vision for a Future Social and Cultural Order - 15. Bonds of Love and Friendship - Conclusion - Appendix: Psychography (by Owen Barfield) - Notes - Bibliography - Index

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Book SynopsisHermann Beckh’s masterful study of Mark’s Gospel offers much more than scholarly argument. It is the work of a true visionary who allows his readers to discover the meaning of the Earth and of humanity for themselves. Beckh was in the forefront of entirely new research and recovery of the Gospel, writing more for the future than for his own time. It is not uncommon for biblical scholars to view St. Mark’s Gospel as little more than an assemblage of fragmentary sources and a copy of uncertain, early memories. The Gospel is said to have little historical veracity, harmony or guiding structure. Beckh’s contemporary, the German writer Arthur Drews, even argued that the text was nothing more than a simplistic solar myth, wherein another Sun-hero pursued his way around the Greco-Roman constellations. Mark’s Gospel: The Cosmic Rhythm is a response to such twentieth-century materialistic thinking. He was asked to write the book in the 1920s by the leaders of The Christian Community, who sought to rescue the desecrated Gospel from its opponents. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner and a vast knowledge of ancient languages – Tibetan, Sanskrit, Pali and Avestan along with Hebrew, Greek and Latin – the Rev. Professor Hermann Beckh perceived how the Gospel reflects God’s Everlasting Covenant, and meticulously expressed its aesthetic unity, the consonance of its parts and its consequent radiant clarity. His far-reaching understanding of sacred texts in the original languages, always associated with the disciplined meditation he had attained from anthroposophy, led to unprecedented insight. This new edition of his classic study has been revised and redesigned.

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Book Synopsis'This book describes an essential insight, namely that the core or the individual "I" of those with a mental health issue or a learning disability is always healthy.' --- This ground-breaking study describes six constitution types or syndromes that occur in children and adults with learning disabilities and behavioural disorders such as autism, ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as neurological conditions such as epilepsy. The descriptions of these constitution pictures are the result of complementary scientific research based on the insights of Rudolf Steiner. In contemporary medicine, the source of behavioural problems and learning disabilities is believed to derive from genetic and environmental factors affecting the brain. The author expands on this knowledge, asking the vital question of what actually underlies these disorders at a deeper level. The answer leads to better understanding, fresh perspectives and new methodologies for therapeutic support. The author gives a comprehensive description of each constitution, including symptoms, causes, interpretations, treatments, approaches and therapy. These aspects are described in accessible, practical and concrete language with examples and illustrations, including analysis of patients' colour drawings. In addition, attention is paid to diagnostic methods and to the relationship of the six constitution types with conventionally-defined syndromes. A number of training exercises for educators and support workers provide further insight into the constitution images described. Written by a highly-experienced educator of children with special needs, this book is intended for teachers and counsellors at all levels.

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Book SynopsisHermann Beckh (1875-1937) was one of the co-founders of The Christian Community. A remarkable linguist and universal scholar, he mastered six European and six Oriental languages and published more than twenty works on the humanities, dealing with Christology, Cosmology and Musicology. Having first studied Law, he later channeled his extensive research of Hinduism and Buddhism into a renewal of sacramental Christianity. 'Without the Professor', wrote his colleague Rudolf Meyer, the beginnings of the new religious movement were 'unthinkable'. Gundhild Kacer-Bock - daughter of Beckh's priest-colleague and fellow author Emil Bock - creates a lively picture of a unique personality. Beginning with his birth in Nuremberg and education in Munich, she reviews Beckh's manifold studies and writings, his meeting with Rudolf Steiner in 1911, the founding of the Movement for Religious Renewal in Stuttgart in 1922, and the seminal Christmas Conference in Dornach in 1923. Having known Beckh personally, she builds on her own memories as well as Beckh's recorded memoirs, and utilizes newly-discovered letters and documents. This new edition contains Beckh's fairy-tale 'The Story of the Little Squirrel, the Moonlight Princess and the Little Rose' (with colour illustrations by Tatjana Schellhase), with additional appreciations of the author and an illustrative plate section. --- 'A University Professor, who had been a Judge and Orientalist, now became a priest with us. He actively took part in carrying the birth of the new ritual words; he was an expert in the mysteries of language... An abundance of books came into existence whose significance perhaps will only be properly appreciated in the future.' - Emil Bock (1959)

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Book SynopsisIn the popular imagination, the Holy Grail - part of the legendary romance of King Arthur - belongs to the realm of myth. The Knights Templar also have a legendary, enigmatic aspect. Despite the immense volume of historical research available, plausible explanations to the 'mystery' at the core of their practices have yet to be revealed. By studying these two themes side-by-side and showing their inner relationship, Veltman reveals valuable new perspectives. On the one hand he demonstrates that the 'poetic imagination' of the Grail mystery has its origin in concrete historical events; and on the other hand, that the true history of the Knights Templar is, essentially, esoteric. Combining historical research with insights gained from the work of Rudolf Steiner, Veltman presents an impressive survey of the subject, beginning with the pre-Christian Mysteries and ending with a vision of Michaelic Christianity. He analyses the significance of the holy city of Jerusalem, the Temple of Solomon, the Temple Legend, the Grail Temple, the Rosicrucians, the Templars' gold, and the fraught question of evil. In addition, he sketches the continuation or metamorphosis of the Grail and Temple impulses into the future, including the critical 'balancing' role of Europe between East and West. To become effective, this important European task - which, he says, is continually being thwarted - must be properly understood within the realm of human consciousness.Table of Contents1. Introduction - 2. The Mysteries - 3. The Temple and the Grail - 4. Occult history - 5. The Order of the Templars - 6. World Future - 7. Afterword - Notes

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Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated book presents a history of our relationship with nature, beginning with the civilisations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, when gardens served as 'the dwelling place of the gods'. Tracing this history through subsequent epochs, the author shows how human awareness of the divine presence in nature was gradually eclipsed. As nature came to be viewed primarily as a physical resource to be controlled and exploited by us, this was reflected in the ordered, rational designs imposed on such gardens as Versailles. More recently, gardening has come to be seen less as an instrument of control than as an art in its own right, enhancing nature's inherent beauty. Jeremy Naydler suggests that the future of gardening lies not simply in its being regarded as an art but as a sacred art, which once again honours and works with the spiritual dimension intrinsic to nature.Trade Review'The main thrust of this profound and inspiring volume is to remind us that gardens are essentially sacred spaces in which we may work together with Nature in order that we may help her - and ourselves in the process - express more fully the divine presence hidden within the heart of her outward beauty.' (Resurgence)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments - Introduction: A Tension Unresolved - Chapter 1: The Garden in Antiquity - Chapter 2: The Garden in the Middle Ages - Chapter 3: From the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century - Chapter 4: The Gardener as Artist - Chapter 5: Gardening as a Sacred Art - Illustration Sources - Bibliography - Notes - Index

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Book SynopsisRelationships are built through dialogue - through exploring heartfelt questions that lead to liberating personal insights. This book shows how such dialogue can transform relationships and build community. However, true meeting and healing conversations take effort. Encounter involves light and dark. Relationships bring out sympathy and antipathy. In an age of digital communications and internet-based encounters - when alienation and loneliness are very real issues - this new edition of Margarete van den Brink's classic work is more vital than ever. The process of inner development - leading ultimately to the unification of the human self with its higher, spiritual being - involves a transformation in our everyday selves. In this act of initiation, the art of conversation plays a central role. The words which people speak to each other contain a force that can work in an invigorating and life-enhancing way. This force - which can be more precious than light itself - is the highest creative principle, the Word referred to in the Gospel of St John, which created everything that exists. Informed by the insights of anthroposophy, More Precious than Light indicates the path towards the spirit and the lost power of the Word, transforming relationships and building community. True encounter can only be fostered through building real connections with our fellow human beings.Table of ContentsForeword - New Times - Meeting and conversing - Self knowledge and change - Paths to Christ - Notes - Biographies

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Book Synopsis'That in our times a kind of supernumerary person is appearing who is egoless, who in reality is not a human being, is a terrible truth.' - Rudolf Steiner -- Are there people on earth today who do not have a self - a human ego or 'I'? The phenomenon of 'egolessness' - the absence of a human being's core - was discussed by the spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner in lectures and personal conversations. An egoless individual, he intimated, is an empty sheath through which other spiritual entities could operate. Erdmuth J. Grosse brings together many little-known quotations from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual research and supports them with a wealth of disquieting reports, testimonies and examples from literature and politics. He places these insights within the broader context of the riddle of the human self, throwing light on the spiritual development of the individual and humanity as a whole. In this thought-provoking study, Grosse goes on to discuss the role of comets, the effects of cyanide on the human constitution - especially in the light of the Holocaust - and the hidden effects of ceremonial magic, occult lodges, cults and sects. In conclusion, he offers positive solutions to humanity's present predicament by describing the healing impulses of social threefolding, the invisible spiritual beings seeking to help humanity, the role of the gods, the Christ impulse and the true goals of human evolution.Table of ContentsTranslator's note - Foreword - Introduction: The Ego and its sheaths - Are there people without an Ego? - Dementia and the Ego - Demonic beings - What is the nature of the Ego? - The sense of Ego - An egoless girl discussed by Rudolf Steiner at a teachers' meeting of the Waldorf School - The question of egoless individuals in Rudolf Steiner's discussions with the priests of the Christian Community - The effect of cyanide on bodily processes involved with the will - The task and effect of comets - Sorat - The situation prior to the First World War - Ceremonial magic-the technique of occult Lodges - An American sect - A brief description of the threefold social order as an aid to understanding the following chapters - The different nature of peoples in the West, in the Centre, and in the East, and the emergence of egoless individuals - What is a destiny motif? - Death by potassium cyanide and its effect on the Ego - A dream described by Ernst Lehrs - A conversation with Rudolf Steiner about potassium cyanide - The human Ego and spiritual economy in its development - The task of the gods - The Christ impulse - The goal of human evolution - Conclusion: Invisible spiritual beings helping humanity develop spiritual science

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Book SynopsisThat there is a living stream of Johannine Christianity can no longer be doubted. There is now an abundant literature from Rosicrucian and esoteric traditions - from the deepest prayer and meditation - that addresses the exalted nature of John the Evangelist as expressed through his Gospel, Letters and the Book of Revelation. Yet it fell to Hermann Beckh to elucidate clearly how the individual known as 'John' became the source of such undying love and wisdom in Christ. According to Rudolf Steiner, John was the ailing Lazarus, called from death to a new life as 'the disciple Jesus loved'. Beckh demonstrates how John's invaluable writings were based on personal spiritual knowledge and experience, expressing the divine work of the Cosmic Christ on human nature and on the Earth, leading far into the future. Whilst Beckh's authorship originated within the context of the emerging Christian Community founded in 1922, his profoundly original books could not be confined to its framework. Not only could Beckh tackle original texts in Tibetan, Sanskrit and Avestan, but - through his independent vision - he was able to establish new links with philosophical Alchemy, Jakob Boehme, Goethe, Nietzsche and Novalis. He thereby stands with these figures as a co-worker in a greater community. Having prepared the way with his Mark's Gospel of 1928, John's Gospel could be described as the capstone of Beckh's writings - as a triumphant announcement that theology and the study of John's Gospel have finally come of age. Appearing here in a freshly revised translation by Alan Stott, the current volume is enhanced by a series of valuable addenda that shed further light on Beckh's significant achievements.

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Book SynopsisIn this third volume in The Actor of the Future series, Dawn Langman continues to explore the integration of Steiner's research into speech, drama and eurythmy with Michael Chekhov's acting methodology. Her advanced applications of all the basic processes allow the art of the actor and speaker to evolve beyond the 'soul and body' paradigm - still broadly accepted in contemporary culture - to include dimensions of the spirit. The book contains a seminal analysis of comedy and tragedy, showing how an understanding of their esoteric roots - sprung from the Eleusis mysteries of ancient Greece - deepen our appreciation and our ability to implement the practical suggestions made by Steiner and Chekhov to differentiate the fundamental styles. A comprehensive exploration of the vowels in relation to planetary beings lays the foundation for many layers of artistic deepening and application.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements - Introduction - Chapter 1 Advanced layering of Steiner/Chekhov processes - Chapter 2 Advanced applications of the three centres and their speech placements - Chapter 3 Style and genre - Chapter 4 Other states of being - Chapter 5 The planetary spheres: Dante's Paradiso-Our High Work - Chapter 6 The stages of life - Chapter 7 Archetypes of the artistic process-the creative tension between opposites - Chapter 8 New planets, new sensibilities and the actor of the future - Appendices A. A phenomenological approach. - B. Table of Phonetic Symbols - C. Extra texts for chapter 6 - D. Additional volumes in this series - E. DVD series-A Dramatic Journey through the Evolution of Human Consciousness - F. Website details and information about courses and trainings - Bibliography - List of Illustrations - Notes

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Book SynopsisIn March 2020, Are Thoresen contracted Covid-19. Whilst convalescing from the disease and suffering great exhaustion, he experienced a breakthrough in his daily meditation. Although he has always been able to 'see' into the spiritual world, now deeper, unknown realms appeared to his inner vision. In the soapstone surround of the fireplace in his Norwegian home, he perceived the elemental beings and forces that make up the mineral at an atomic level. A few days later, an even deeper dimension revealed itself, in the form of a void or vacuum. Here, astonishingly, was an open portal to the entire cosmos... In Travels on the Northern Path of Initiation, Thoresen shares the results of his latest spiritual investigations, including a moving, life-changing encounter with 'the Light of the World'. He details the teachings he receives from the beings Vidar and Balder - who stand as guardians to the threshold of the outer etheric world - and characterizes the Northern way of initiation, which is based on merging, or 'fading', into nature. Thoresen documents Rudolf Steiner's descriptions of this path and shows how it is reflected in the Old Norse Poetic Edda, the Kalevala and von Eschenbach's Parzival. Based on painstaking research, he describes the individual qualities of the three elemental realms, and how the adversarial forces - seeking to corrupt human senses - hinder spiritual observation of them. Thoresen's book is a powerful personal testimony to the human potential for spiritual knowledge and experience in our time.Table of ContentsPreface - Introduction - Chapter 1 Meeting Vidar and Balder - Beyond the Elemental Realms - Chapter 2 Seeing the Elemental Realms - Chapter 3 How the Adversarial Forces Hinder Spiritual Observation - Corrupting our Spiritual Senses - Postscript - Vidar's Further Teachings - Appendix 1 The Northern Path in History - Appendix 2 Rudolf Steiner on the Three 'Occultisms'

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Book SynopsisIn a remarkable deed of original scholarly research and detailed detective work, Anne Weise recreates sketches of a lost life - of one of the millions of forgotten souls whose lives came to a violent end in the Holocaust. Her focus is Alfred Bergel (1902-1944), an artist and teacher from Vienna who was a close associate of Karl Koenig - the founder of the Camphill Movement for people with special needs - who wrote of Bergel in his youthful diaries as his best friend 'Fredi'. After the annexation of Austria, Alfred Bergel found himself unable to escape the horror of the National Socialist regime. Subsequently, in 1942 he was deported to the Theresienstadt camp. Imprisoned there, he produced numerous artistic works of the inmates of the ghetto and taught drawing, art history and art appreciation - sometimes in collaboration with the Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. During this period, he was also forced by the Nazis to produce forgeries of classic art works. One of the central figures of cultural life in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Bergel was eventually transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 where, tragically, he was murdered. His name and his work are largely forgotten today, even amongst Holocaust researchers, but Weise succeeds in honouring the life of the Jewish artist by lovingly piecing together his biography, based on numerous personal testimonies by friends and contemporaries and supplemented with documents and many dozens of photos and colour reproductions of Bergel's artistic works. This invaluable recreation of a life provides insight not only into the desperate plight of a single individual, but also illustrates the human will and determination to survive in the context of one of the darkest periods of recent history.Table of ContentsThe Holocaust: Looking Back Seventy Years by Robert O. Fisch - Looking for the Human Being-A Preface - Short Biography of Alfred Bergel - 1. Young Friends-A Diary Collage - Childhood and Youth in Olmu tz and Vienna - Summer Respite for Bergels and Koenigs-Friendship between the Families - 'And we became friends'-Fredi and Karl - 'Moonlight Party'-A Summer in Kierling - 'He won't let on about it'-First love - 'Too good to be true'-Wistful Farewell and War Chaos - Kierling, and once again Kierling - 'Wurstelprater'-Theatrical Experiences - 'Become like this man, so happy and great'-A Fairy Tale for the Friend - Poet and mentor-the father Arnold Bergel - 'I saw the creative works of the greatest painters'-Encounters with the visual arts - Another Class Photo-a Talent for Portraits - 'The Different, the Good, and the Beautiful'-Quarrels - 'Man of Skills'-the Artist - 'We are just too connected with each other through Karma' - Rise of Anti-Semitism in Vienna - 2. The Anschluss. Annexation-Repression and Defamation in Vienna - The Destiny of the Childhood-Friends - Banned from Employment, March 1938 - Exit Visa and Capital Confiscation, May 1938 - Marked as Israel and Sara, August 1938 - Evictions, September 1938 - Kristallnacht, November 1938 - Escape of Sister Marianne to Palestine, June 1939 - Teacher in the Youth-Aliyah, October 1939-1942 - 3. Theresienstadt and Auschwitz - Bohemia-'The heart of Europe' - 'My number swung as if on a cow's neck'-Deportation - 'The idea of man'-cultural life for survival, nourishment and spiritual resistance - 'Subtleties like colour, harmony, balance, form and beauty'-Alfred Bergel as a teacher - 'Here is no photographer, then an artist is needed'-Alfred Bergel, the painter - Alfred Bergel-Member of the Sonderwerkstatt - 'Ordering' art - Eyewitness accounts from the painters' workshops - More research needs to be done - Beautification of Theresienstadt - From Vienna: a message of 'an outstanding loan debt' - 'An oasis to breathe'-Hugo Friedmann and the library - A slight movement with the thumb-Deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau - 4. Human dignity is inviolable - 'To serve and not to rule'-The destiny of Karl Koenig and the European cultural impulse - 'Love overcomes hatred'-Pay Attention to the Helpers - 5. Anthroposophical work in Theresienstadt - 6. Destinies of family members - Sophie Bergel / Arthur and Sali Bergel / Marianne and Hans Petersilka / Margarethe and Richard Winter / Fritz Bergel / Elsa, Oskar and Herta Baurose - Members of the Bergel family murdered in Auschwitz/Birkenau - The fate of Karl Koenig's extended family during the Holocaust - 7. A voice from then ... and today-Fred Terna - Notes - Further reading - List of artworks - Picture credits - Index of names

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Book SynopsisIn 1919 Rudolf Steiner spoke about the future physical incarnation of the being of Ahriman. This would take place before 'a part' of the third millennium had passed, and was inevitable - but it was also necessary that people were aware of this event and recognized it, for earthly culture would be destroyed if the world were to fall completely to Ahriman. The situation we find ourselves in today shows Ahriman's unmistakable signature: the rapid destruction of nature, zoonotic diseases and pandemics, huge social inequalities, and the overall dominance of high finance. In this short book Peter Selg presents a timely overview of the challenges we face, beginning with a pithy and concise survey of Steiner's commentary on Ahriman's incarnation and the conditions that would characterize it. This is followed by a study of Ahriman's depiction in the mystery drama The Souls' Awakening. Steiner's remarkable personification of Ahriman on stage - portraying his strategies and activities - provides vital instruction for humanity. Selg concludes with an evaluation of 'the Battle for Human Intelligence' taking place in contemporary culture through materialistic ideas such as transhumanism. In their recent book Covid-19: The Great Reset, for example, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret propose wholesale economic, geopolitical, environmental and technological revisions to society - ideas that need to be understood and confronted in human thought and consciousness. The Future of Ahriman is a crucial aid to comprehending our times.Table of ContentsForeword - 1. 'The Incarnation of Ahriman', Rudolf Steiner's lectures from October to December 1919 - 2. 'The Awakening of Souls', Ahriman in the Mystery Dramas, 1910-1913 - 3. The Battle for Human Intelligence, The Leading Thoughts of 1924/25, and the present - Notes

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Book SynopsisRudolf Steiner's watercolour painting 'The Archetypal Human-Animal' presents us with the enigmatic image of a strange creature apparently swimming in water. It has a human profile, showing a clearly outlined nose and slightly-opened mouth, with a mysterious eye, almost concealed in its greenish hair. It has appendages similar to hands and feet, and dark-blue plant-like forms float about in the water beneath the creature's bright red and yellow body. Only the title provides us with a clue to its meaning: it is an 'archetypal human-animal' form. But even this is enigmatic. What is this strange, unusual creature - this archetypal human-animal? We are presented with a perplexing image and a puzzling description. In this original work, illustrated throughout with full-colour paintings and images - many by the author herself - Angela Lord takes us on a journey of discovery to realizing the meaning of Rudolf Steiner's painting. From Goethe's theory of metamorphosis in nature, we are introduced to Steiner's ideas of human evolution, from the primal beginnings of the archetypal human-animal on 'Ancient Moon'. Lord recounts myths and legends from many cultures that tell of human-animal forms, and reflects on the meaning of the fish in Christianity. She takes us through a series of 'colour sequences' for repainting Steiner's human-animal motif, and includes appendices that summarize evolutionary phases of the earth and humanity from a spiritual-scientific perspective. The Archetypal Human-Animal is both a valuable workbook for painters and a fascinating insight into hidden aspects of human evolution.Table of ContentsPrologue - PART ONE - Chapter One Goethe's Archetypal Animal - Chapter Two Goethe's Metamorphosis of Animals - PART TWO - Chapter One An Evolutionary Background - Chapter Two The Human Being on Ancient Moon: the primal beginnings of Archetypal Human-Animal - PART THREE - Chapter One The Human Being: Handiwork of the Gods - Chapter Two From Fire-Air to Air - PART FOUR - Chapter One The Animals: From the Cosmos Down to Earth - Chapter Two The Origin of the Animals - Chapter Three The Human-Animal Plant becomes Human - PART FIVE - Chapter One Myths and Legends: Monsters and Mermaids - Chapter Two A Cabinet of Curiosities - Chapter Three The Sphinx - PART SIX - Chapter One The Symbol of the Fish in Christianity - Chapter Two The Zodiac - Chapter Three The Evangelists - PART SEVEN - Chapter One The Colours of the Motif - Chapter Two An Approach to the Language of Colour - Appendix One Summary of Evolutionary Phases - Appendix Two Time Charts - List of Illustrations - References and Suggested Reading - Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe unique scholarship and artistic sensitivity of Prof. Dr Hermann Beckh (1875–1937) is in the process of being rediscovered. The great linguist, Orientalist and Christian priest – an active music-lover who also composed – penned pioneer works on our musical system that are respected by musicians and musicologists. This volume brings together two revised versions of his best-loved books. The Essence of Tonality is written ‘…for musicians and music-lovers who, because of their particular musicality experience something spiritual – and for spiritual seekers and sensitive people who, because of their particular spirituality, have experienced a connection with music.’ Beckh believed a spiritual view of tonality would ensure music’s, and humanity’s, future. The author elucidates the correspondence of the circle of fifths (the keys) to the zodiac. Research should be directed towards the twelve vital, spiritual key-centres, as expressing the cosmic rhythms in which we all live, rather than the abstract twelve chromatic notes of atonality. In The Parsifal Christ-Experience, Beckh’s original insights throw new and powerful light on the search for meaning in our age, for a knowledge of the heart. In the poetic libretto and remarkable music of his final creation, Wagner – acknowledged by Bruckner as ‘the Master’ – presents the Grail legend and its imagery. The psychological drama and its ultimate solution provide insights to anyone who is prepared to reflect on inner experience. Through Beckh’s references to Wagner’s own letters, as well as a remarkable letter from Nietzsche, the reader gains knowledge of the true nature of Wagner and his work.Table of ContentsPart 1: THE ESSENCE OF TONALITY – Author’s Prefaces – Translator’s Preface – Postscript – Part 2: THE PARSIFAL=CHRIST=EXPERIENCE – Translator’s Preface – Introduction: ‘Richard Wagner and Christianity’ – Chapter I: The Christ-Mystery in the Prelude to Parsifal – Chapter II: The Drama of the Christ-Experience in Parsifal – Scene 1. The Swan – Scene 2. The Walk to the Grail Castle – Scene 3. Amfortas and the Grail – Scene 4. The Gesture towards the Heart—Parsifal shakes his Head – Scene 5. Parsifal in Klingsor’s Realm: Awakening to Knowledge – Scene 6. Kundry-Herodias: ‘There His gaze fell upon me.’ – Scene 7. The Redeeming Gaze of Christ: Karfreitagszauber – Appendix I: From Scene 2, The growth of the Gaze Motif in the transition music of Act I (The Walk to the Grail Castle) – Appendix II: From Scene 6, Kundry-Herodias: ‘I looked at Him—and laughed …’ – Appendix III: Twilight of the Gods and Resurrection: Wagner’s Mythological Wisdom by Emil Bock – Appendix IV: King Ludwig II of Bavaria on the 70th anniversary of his death by Rudolf Frieling

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Book SynopsisHow awake are we to our inner being, our true nature? How much self-knowledge do we really have? In relation to our intrinsic self, we can easily feel like a novice. In truth, we face a long journey before we can fully understand ourselves - and we are equally unpractised in relating to our 'shadow' and inner wounds. The path described in this book is an inward one, concerned with strengthening our individuality. Based on life-long research, Karsten Massei has created a valuable workbook for knowing and healing ourselves. In a series of short chapters, he explains the interplay and tensions between the human individual and the nature of our 'inner and cosmic child'. Both are complex entities but are directly related; both are deeply connected with our destiny. Our experiences with our inner child are often still in the earliest stages - but cultivating a relationship with her, noticing her, holding conversations with her, is vital, and offers us ever deepening experiences. As our insights expand, our frailties, deficiencies and inner wounds become apparent. The being of the inner child wants to educate us to become inwardly truthful and authentic. Only honest engagement with the traumas and vulnerabilities of our soul will enable a true picture of ourselves to arise. Child of the Cosmos contains surprising perspectives arising from the author's personal experiences, opening up a clear path of personal development. The text is complemented with seven special meditations to assist us in engaging with the challenges ahead.Table of ContentsIntroduction - I THE LIFE OF THE INNER CHILD - 1 Transformations - 2 Inward paths - 3 Voyage into the soul - 4 The inner child - 5 The world of the gods and the self - 6 The death-pangs of a time that's past - 7 The mysteries of the other - 8 Individual gifts and the community - 9 Communities and clairvoyance - II THE WOUNDED AND THE COSMIC CHILD - 1 Responsibility toward the earth - 2 Individuality and the inner child - 3 The wounds of the soul - 4 Gestures of reconciliation - 5 The secret of darkness - 6 The wisdom of the body - 7 Conversations with our inner child - 8 The nature of the cosmic child - 9 Knowledge of human nature and the inner child - III SEVEN MEDITATIONS - Bibliography

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Book Synopsis‘How can our souls unite with the etheric Christ, experienced in the etheric world since the end of the last century? What steps should we take, in the second century of the age of Michael, to unite with Him?’ At the centre of humanity’s evolution stands the Mystery of Golgotha, through which the Christ impulse entered the earth. Anthroposophy, said Rudolf Steiner, was given at the beginning of the last century to prepare for the second major Christ event – the etheric Second Coming – beginning in 1933. This Event is the portal that leads to the mighty and transformative happenings taking place in the etheric world right now, enabling us to meet the etheric Christ, Michael and Anthroposophia. At the heart of this book is an existential question. Early in his anthroposophical work, Ben-Aharon came to realize that without the light of spiritual science, the meeting with the etheric Christ remained simply a personal experience. Likewise, without the new life forces streaming from the etheric Christ, anthroposophy was merely a body of knowledge, frozen in time. Both needed each other. But how was that mutually-enlivening bridge to be built? Speaking candidly of his personal spiritual path and inner struggles of consciousness, Ben-Aharon tackles this fundamental dilemma as a prelude to the forthcoming, second edition of his book The New Experience of the Supersensible. Contents include: The Ur-Phenomena of the Modern Christ Experience, Paul’s Christ Experience and the Birth of Christian Platonism; The Michaelic Yoga; The Platonic-Aristotelian Essence Exchange at the End of the Twentieth Century; The Meeting with the Etheric Christ; The Abyss and the Event of the Threshold; The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming; The Meeting with Michael; The Meeting with Anthroposophia.Table of ContentsPreface – Introduction – Chapter 1, The Ur-Phenomena of the Modern Christ Experience, Paul’s Christ Experience and the Birth of Christian Platonism – Chapter 2, The Michaelic Yoga – Chapter 3, The Platonic-Aristotelian Essence Exchange at the End of the Twentieth Century – Chapter 4, The Meeting with the Etheric Christ – Chapter 5, The Abyss and the Event of the Threshold – Chapter 6, The Knowledge Drama of the Second Coming – Chapter 7, The Meeting with Michael – Chapter 8, The Meeting with Anthroposophia

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Book SynopsisEdith Maryon (1872-1924) was a trained sculptor who worked alongside Rudolf Steiner to create the unique sculpture of Christ (the ‘Representative of Humanity’) at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. One of Steiner’s closest collaborators, she was a highly-valued colleague and esoteric pupil. As one of his dearest friends, Maryon kept a busy and detailed correspondence with Rudolf Steiner, in which he confided freely about his personal situation, his lack of true colleagues, difficulties with lecture tours, and the embattled public standing of anthroposophy. Almost invariably, these letters emphasized Steiner’s longing for the Dornach studio and their shared work on the Christ statue. Maryon’s early death, aged 52 – following fifteen months of illness – shook Rudolf Steiner to the core. He was to die himself less than a year later. With this book, the author’s central aim is to illuminate the spiritual signature of Edith Maryon’s relationship with Rudolf Steiner and their mutual work in anthroposophy and on the sculpture of Christ. Building on Rex Raab’s (1993) biography, Peter Selg’s moving study features dozens of photos and facsimiles of letters, utilizing previously unpublished sources from Edith Maryon’s and Ita Wegman’s literary estates and the Rudolf Steiner Archive in Dornach. –– The most essential and intrinsic quality of her soul … was not a particular branch of human endeavour, not even art; the most salient of her soul tendencies, her soul intentions, was the striving for spirituality…’ – Rudolf SteinerTable of ContentsForeword – I. ‘Doing what it is my destiny to do’, Edith Maryon’s Path to Rudolf Steiner (1912-1914) – II. ‘What she does, I have done’, Work on the ‘Christ Group’ and the First World War (1914-1918) – III ‘With the essential being / of another soul’, Inner Accompaniment and Continuing Work (1919-1922) – IV. ‘The Story of Job’, The Fire, Illness and Death (1923-1924) – Notes and References – Bibliography

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Book Synopsis‘These Letters … aim to make John’s Gospel accessible to people today as their own gospel, both as a whole and in the details; to illuminate it with the spiritual knowledge of the age and to make it fruitful for life, not only for meditation but also for practical ordering of destiny.’ – Friedrich Rittelmeyer. --- A revitalized Johannine Christianity stands at the heart of the work of Christian renewal that was led by Rudolf Steiner in the early twentieth century. Friedrich Rittelmeyer, a Lutheran minister and theologian who helped found The Christian Community in 1922, was a leading figure within this new Johannine movement. Rittelmeyer described John’s Gospel as encapsulating ‘…an indescribable glory of revelation of love. This glory has such purity, delicacy and spiritual power that in it one has the material with which a marvellous new world may be built.’ --- Without doubt his most powerful work, Rittelmeyer’s Letters on John’s Gospel first appeared in a series of publications by the Stuttgart seminary of The Christian Community between 1930 and 1932. Whilst these Letters were originally written with students and local congregations in mind, they provide manifold insights for anyone seeking to glimpse the majesty of John’s Gospel. Margaret Mitchell’s translation from 1937 has never before been published in book form. Revised here and expanded by editors Alan Stott and Neil Franklin, this volume features additional contributions by Rudolf Frieling and Emil Bock.Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface by Alan Stott – Introduction: Friedrich Rittelmeyer and John’s Gospel by Rudolf Frieling – The ‘I-AM’ as the Midpoint of Human History – Christianity as a Mystery Religion – The Nascent World – John’s Gospel, Chapter One (Revised Standard Version) – LETTERS ON JOHN’S GOSPEL – Letter No. 1, The Mystery of the ‘I’ – Letter No. 2, The Mystery of the ‘I’ (2) – Letter No. 3, Son of God and Son of Man (1) – Letter No. 4, Son of Man and Son of God (2) – Letter No. 5, Son of God and Son of Man (3) – Letter No. 6, The Book of Joy – Letter No. 7, ‘I am the Light of the World’ – Letter No. 8, ‘I am the Life’ – Letter No. 9, ‘I am Love’ – Letter No. 10, A World-Historical Conversation – Letter No. 11, The Springtime of the Disciples – Letter No. 12, The Great Intercession: the High-Priestly Prayer (I) – Letter No. 13, The Great Intercession, the High-Priestly Prayer (II) – Letter No. 14, The Great Intercession, the High-Priestly Prayer (III) – Consecration of the Disciples [John 21] – John’s Gospel, Chapter 1 (Revised Standard Version) – Appendix: The Word from Inner Listening – Twenty Years after the Death of Friedrich Rittelmeyer by Emil Bock – Further Reading – Notes

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Book SynopsisIn a private conversation on his deathbed, Rudolf Steiner informed his friend Count Polzer-Hoditz of three spiritual problems that would need to be resolved in the coming years: 'Firstly, the question of the two Johns [John the Baptist and John the Evangelist]. Secondly: Who was Dmitri? Thirdly: Where did Caspar Hauser come from?' Tackling these issues, said Steiner, would be of critical importance for humanity's future. He added: 'In all three problems it is important that one's gaze is directed not towards death but towards birth. Where did they come from and with what tasks?' In Dmitri's case, Steiner emphasized that the most important thing was to discover what was to have been achieved through him. --- Utilizing the significant clues left by Rudolf Steiner, Sergei O. Prokofieff takes on the second of these tasks, the great unsolved mystery of Russian history. Tsarevich Dmitri, the son of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, was tragically murdered as a young boy. Later, he was impersonated by a series of rogues and pretenders. Prokofieff's wide-ranging study integrates historical, psychological and spiritual-scientific perspectives to work towards the truth behind Dmitri's brief life, his mission and the distortions created by the 'false Dmitris'. He also examines the significance of Friedrich Schiller's unfinished play, Demetrius.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Chapter 1: Rudolf Steiner on the Problem of Dmitri - Chapter 2: The Riddle of Dmitri from a Historical Point of View - Chapter 3: The Riddle of Dmitri from a Psychological Point of View - Chapter 4: The Riddle of Dmitri from a Spiritual-Scientific Point of View - Chapter 5: Friedrich Schiller's Demetrius and the Spiritual-Historical Reality lying at its Foundation: the Struggle against the Spirit - Conclusion: The Problem of Dmitri and the Present - Appendix: Eduard Winter: Russia and the Papacy, Extract from the chapter entitled 'Papal Diplomacy during the Time of Troubles in Russia' - Afterword to the Second German Edition - Notes - Bibliography - List of Historical Literature and Abbreviations used in the text and Notes - Commentary about the List of Historical Literature

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Book SynopsisEarth and humanity are involved in a fragile interplay of physical and spiritual relationships, the full spectrum of which can only be discerned by higher, finer senses. Based on actual, living discernment rather than dogmatic ideas, Karsten Massei reveals how we can unite with nature, supporting our inner development and everyday lives. We ourselves comprise the path leading to the mysteries of the earth. Through delving into nature’s secrets, paradoxically we are brought back to our own being – our soul-gold, our luminosity, but also to our shadow, lower nature. Deep encounters with the earth are thus self-encounters. --- In a series of concise and accessible chapters, Massei illumines human characteristics – our senses, the quality of our listening, our soul wounds and the possibility for transformation. Likewise, he lights up the natural world – plants and animals, but also elemental beings, spirits of trees, and the great being of the earth, Christ. Amongst a wealth of interrelated themes, the author portrays death as the doorway to a new existence, describing the relationship of the dead with the earth and humanity and speaking movingly of the healing social deed of forgiveness. Founded on first-hand research, this book is full of reverence for the hidden aspects of life and their significance for personal growth.Table of Contents1. The names – 2. The senses – 3. Listening – 4. Elemental beings – 5. Diverse elemental beings – 6. Messages from the elemental world – 7. The lofty life of the trees – 8. The spirits of the trees – 9. Plants, and trees, and the human soul – 10. Ways to know plants – 11. The nature of certain plants and trees – 12. Animal and human being – 13. Encounters with animals – 14. Christ and the animals – 15. The transformation of the soul, and the animals – 16. The path to birth – 17. Paths into Life – 18. Death as a doorway into new existence – 19. Death as the source of life – 20. The relationship of the dead with the earth and human beings – 21. Soul wounds – 22. Christ in the living earth – 23. The power of forgiveness – Afterword – Notes

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