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Steiner & Spirit 2015
Writings on Spiritual Science and
practical applications of Anthroposophy
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Week 1:
Week 2:
June 21st to June 26th
June 28th to July 3rd
Healing Aspects to Address Trauma
in Childhood, Adolescence, and in
Biography
With Michaela Gloeckler, MD
The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily:
Performing the Story with Marionettes
With Joan Almon, Janene Ping, and
Debra Spitulnik
The Paths of Intuition:
Educating with Insight, Courage, and Joy
With Christof Wiechert
The Four Temperaments
in the Workplace:
Transforming the Way we Work with
One Another
With Adrian Locher
Laying the Foundation:
Teaching Grade 1
With Christopher Sblendorio
Welcome to Renewal 2015!
For Waldorf teachers and administrators - along with parents,
trustees, artists, and thinkers seeking to deepen
their lives through Anthroposophy
Nature’s Alphabet:
Explore the Relationship between
Word and World
With Paul Matthews
and Patrice Pinette
Working with the Image of Man at
the Heart of Waldorf Education:
Teaching Grade 4
With Dennis Demanett
Roots, Leaves, Flowers, Seeds,
and Spirit:
The Ancient Art of Healing
with Herbs
With Deb Soule
The Golden Age:
Grade 5 in a Waldorf School
With Patrice Maynard
The Turning Point of Childhood:
Teaching Grade 6
With Helena Niiva
Michelangelo for Beginners:
Carving in Marble
With Daniel O’Connors
The Brave New World of Seventh Grade
With Sue Demanett and Louis Bullard
Music in the Morning:
Singing and Recorder Playing
in the Classroom
With David Gable
The Art of Christianity:
A Journey through Art History
With David Lowe
Painting by Karine Munk Finser
The Gift of Drawing:
Blocks and Blackboard Preparation for
the Classroom, Grades 1-8
With Elizabeth Auer
Co-Workers, Sisters, and Friends:
Women Students and Spiritual
Researchers around Rudolf Steiner
With Christopher Bamford
Re-Imagining Mathematics
With Jamie York
Finding the Middle Path:
An Exploration of the Landscape of Grade 2
With Kate Golden
How to Survive the 8th Grade and
Come out Smiling!
With Darcy Drayton
Anthroposophy and Buddhism:
The Reality and Possibilities of
Relationship
With Michael D’Aleo
Embracing the Darkness
With Charles Andrade
Register online at:
www.centerforanthroposophy.org
Foreign Languages in Grades 1, 2, and 3: Renewal Courses sponsored by Center for Anthroposophy
Kindling the Imagination,
Wilton, New Hampshire
Cultivating Understanding, and
Karine
Munk Finser, Coordinator
Practical Language Skills
603-654-2566
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[email protected]
With Kati Manning and Lorey Johnson
Visit us online for details of our part-time
Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy and the Arts
Barbara Richardson, Coordinator
Clusters available on demand around the U.S.
www.centerforanthroposophy.org
Social and Organizational Issues
With John Cunningham,
Barbara Richardson,
and Torin Finser
Self-Education through Intuitive
Thinking and Artistic Perception
With Signe Motter, Hugh Renwick,
Elizabeth Auer, and Douglas Gerwin
June 28th - July 25th, 2015
Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program
Douglas Gerwin, Director
Three-summers program specializing in
Arts/Art History • Biology • English • History
Math • Physics & Chemistry • Pedagogical Eurythmy
Now the green blade riseth, from the buried grain,
Wheat that in the dark earth, many days has lain;
Love lives again, that with the dead has been:
Love has come again, like wheat that springeth green.
(Easter Carol, words by J. M. C. Crum)
Dear Friends,
Each year, with the emergence of spring, come the joyous outward
signs of new life, of renewal, of rebirth. Nature sings her song of resilience and strength and all of creation resounds with the tone.
And inwardly, as human beings, we can experience at this time of
year, with refreshed vigor, the abundant possibilities for our work in
the world to fi nd its proper place, to transform what needs transformation, to effect the
change for the better that only humans can accomplish—in short, the Hope, born of
insight, that our intentions will meet their true destiny.
Along with all this, and not unrelated, each spring we at SteinerBooks issue what you
now hold in your hands, our most important catalog of the year, Steiner and Spirit. We
publish this catalog in the spirit of this season of hope, renewal, rebirth. And following
this catalog, we have in the past sent out, separately, an appeal letter highlighting our
work and our mission, and emphasizing the ongoing need for this work to be subsidized
by generous gifts, small and large, from those friends and colleagues who recognize that
what we at SteinerBooks are doing, and intend to keep doing, is vitally important. For
if, as many today would prefer, the bright light of spiritual knowledge and inquiry is
extinguished from our culture, dark days would indeed follow.
Here at SteinerBooks we work in the opposite direction.
Our mission—to make anthroposophic literary works ever-more visible and accessible
to the general public, thereby encouraging the cultivation and spread of Anthroposophy
as a spiritual and cultural impulse—remains strongly in the forefront of all that we
undertake and accomplish as an organization. However, to continue with this work we
must regularly ask for monetary support. Our project of publishing The Complete Works
of Rudolf Steiner in English, for instance, is an ambitious vision. It can be completed, but
only if we have the support of those who recognize its importance for the world today
and in the future.
We strongly believe that the tremendous value (social, spiritual, and cultural) of the
books in The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner Series, as well as others that we publish,
are far from being fully appreciated at this time, but that they will endure and that the
wider recognition of their importance will continue to grow. Our activities, therefore,
are always directed toward the future.
In the meantime, we ask once again: If you are in support of the work we intend to
accomplish, to please send us the gift that seems right to you. No donation is too small—
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All best wishes,
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“ T r a n s f o r m Y o u r s e l f f o r t h e S a k e o f t h e W o r l d ” b y C h r i s t o p h e r B a m f o rd
“One would have to write many books if
one wished to exhaust the whole meaning
of these sayings, for not only is every word
in them filled with meaning, but also the
symmetry of the words, the way in which
they are distributed, the intensifications
that they contain, and many other things,
are also filled with meaning, so that only
long and patient dedication to what lies
within them can begin to exhaust them.”
—Rudolf Steiner (1907, CW 284)
Mantric Sayings
Meditations, 1903–1925
RUDOLF STEINER
Translated by Dana L. Fleming
and Christopher Bamford
Verses and Meditations (CW 267)
ransform yourself for the sake of the
world. Learn to practice thinking, feeling,
sensing, and willing without egoism. Let the
spirit see and create through you. Become the
stage on which the eternal and the transitory
meet. Become the eye and the hand of the spirit.
“Let your work be the shadow that your “I” casts
when it is shone upon by the flame of your higher
self.” Remember, too, “without faith, the work
remains dead.” “Understand: that you should
divinize yourself through your meditation.” This
unique collection of Rudolf Steiner’s “mantric
sayings” opens with such injunctive insights.
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“One would have to write many books to
exhaust the whole meaning of the sayings
contained in this book; not only is every
word in them filled with meaning, but
also the symmetry of the words, the way
they are distributed, the intensifications
they contain, and many other aspects
are also filled with meaning. Only long
and patient dedication them can begin to
exhaust them.” —Rudolf Steiner, 1907
Mantric Sayings is a companion volume to
Soul Exercises: Word and Symbol Meditations
(see page 19) .
RUDOLF STEINER (read about him on page 18).
ISBN: 9780880106306
Paperback, SteinerBooks
$30.00
6 x 9 inches, 454 pages
COMING THIS SUMMER
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y “mantric sayings” (Mantrische Sprüche)
Rudolf Steiner means content given
by the spiritual world to be absorbed and
experienced in meditation. Thus, the volume
contains intuitive insights—sometimes in
sentences, sometimes in “verse,” received or
taken “from the spiritual world” (and, as such,
vehicles to return us to it)—that is, meditations, often given personally to others for
general use, as well as for specific situations
or needs such as healing and strengthening,
in relation to those who have died, or for
anthroposophic work.
There are also translations made as part of
Steiner’s own meditative practice of certain
scriptural passages and ancient versions of the
Lord’s Prayer. As he often advised, sentences
from sacred texts, as well as from the mystics, derive from the spiritual world and are
intended and most appropriate for our meditations. This volume also contains a lecture (“The
Foundation Stone Address” of 1913), for this,
too, contains gifts of spirit—above all, the socalled Macrocosmic (or Reverse) Lord’s Prayer.
In other words, these are short texts
intended for meditation, received meditatively.
They are not sentences (or texts) whose primary function is to communicate some kind of
information. Rather, they are to be performed
and to be experienced. In this sense, they are
both injunctive, enjoining us to “Do this!” and
affirmative, positive, filled with hope, and oriented toward the other—the future.
It is interesting to note that an alternative translation of Sprüche, or “sayings,” is
“aphorisms,” a term not infrequently invoked
by Rudolf Steiner for certain kinds of short
texts. Often, we think of aphorisms simply
as smart, pithy, laconic sayings; but since
Nietzsche made aphorisms the basis of his
philosophical style (which Steiner deeply
appreciated), an aphorism can be a form of
intense concentrated, sometimes paradoxical or counterintuitive expression oriented
toward the spirit, with the capacity to move
and affect us beyond its propositional value,
creating a receptivity toward what might
come and a line of flight to follow it. Many of
Jesus’ “sayings,” such as those of the Sermon
on the Mount (translated by Steiner in this
volume), are of this kind.
A little like Zen koans, such aphorisms
confront us with something that our ordinary
thinking cannot quite grasp, so that we are
forced to abandon it, while a different kind
of consciousness, another mode of cognition,
can take its place. In this vein, for instance,
Steiner proposes for meditation such “mighty
mantras” as “It thinks me” or “It works me.”
This aphoristic, consciousness-transforming
quality is, in fact, why such verses or sentences
are called “mantric.”
The word mantric derives from the Sanskrit,
mantra, which is made up of two words: man, in
its simplest form meaning “to think” or “mind,”
and tra, connoting instrumentality or function. A mantra is thus what sets mind in action
toward the highest function of what mind can
do. For Vedic humanity, however, man, or mind,
was more than simply cognitive in the narrow
sense; it also included feeling, affect, sensation, will, intention, and even “heart impulses.”
Beyond this, it also included the sense of “evoking” or “calling up.” As J. Gonda sums it up:
A mantra may therefore, etymologically
speaking, and judging from the oldest
texts, approximately be defined as follows: Words believed to be of “superhuman origin,” received, fashioned, and
spoken by the “inspired” seers, poets, and
reciters in order to evoke divine power(s)
and especially conceived as a means of creating, conveying, concentrating, and realizing intentional and efficient thought, and
of coming into touch or identifying oneself
with the essence of divinity, which is present in the mantra. (“The Indian Mantra,”
Oriens, vol. 16, Dec. 1963)
Given the profound transformations of consciousness since Vedic times, it is perhaps surprising that this “definition” is still more or less
descriptive of Rudolf Steiner’s meaning.
Of course, because meditation lies at the
very heart of Anthroposophy as Rudolf Steiner
wished to see it practiced, there are many
other volumes and collections of Steiner’s
meditation texts. What makes Mantric Sayings
unique, however, is its range, extending from
July 1903 to March 1925—virtually the entirety
of Steiner’s life as a spiritual teacher—and its
personal quality. That is, it is very clear that
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many of these meditations, whether given to
others, simply jotted down in his notebooks, or
on loose sheets, were meditations that Steiner
himself not only received, but also worked with
himself in meditation. Steiner, after all, as is
well known, claimed never to speak, teach, or
write anything that he himself had not experienced. It should come as no surprise, then, that
this is also true of the meditations he gave. In
this sense, these meditations present a kind
of intimate soul portrait of the one who gave
them. They are what he did. At the same time,
of course, most of these meditations were subsequently given to others with, as one might
imagine, great love and deep knowledge of
their recipients.
This quality of personal experience, of
course, characterizes all that Rudolf Steiner
wrote and spoke regarding meditation. The
seemingly different approaches outlined in
How To Know High Worlds, in the relevant chapters of Theosophy and An Outline of Esoteric
Science, and in lectures on various aspects of
meditation likewise all arise from Steiner’s own
experience—for he never asked his students to
do what he had not himself done. Indeed, in the
course of his thinking, meditating, researching,
and self-schooling, he had done and experienced many things and would instruct students
differently according to need and context as he
understood it.
Because it might seem to propose “different kinds” of meditation, this wide range
of approaches and practices could lead to
confusion. However, although there are many
different kinds—for instance, exercises often
entailing visualizations or building up images;
aphoristic sentences or phrases; and verses usually in the form of evocations, affirmations, or
prayers—all of these depend on or require more
or less the same approach: humbly, selflessly,
and in a mood of reverence and devotion quieting and stilling the mind or soul, and thus peacefully emptied of the inner turmoil of the day,
placing within one’s consciousness the given
meditation or prayer (Steiner says that, for early
Christians, prayer was meditation), pondering
it, slowly penetrating it, allowing it to fill one’s
thinking, feeling, and willing, and then holding
this state, living within it as long as possible and
then allowing it to go, returning to one’s initial,
empty, peaceful state. . . .
should be consulted, as well as the introductory volumes of lectures, such as First Steps
in Inner Development. These works (as well as,
for instance, From the History and Contents of
the First Section of the Esoteric School and Guidance in Esoteric Training) contain, for those
who are interested, the context within which
these meditations were received and given.
For a more general overview, the anthology or
collection Start Now! gives a good overview of
the many kinds of meditation and practice that
Rudolf Steiner made available for his students
over the years of his teaching. Very important,
too, are the larger “life rules” that he repeatedly stressed—above all, the golden rule:
“three steps in the perfection of one’s character toward the good for one step forward in
knowledge.”
In other words, on the anthroposophic spiritual path one must never forget the practice
of the essential soul dispositions conducive to
practical ethics and a fully realized human life—
chief among which are the cultivation of virtues
such as reverence, dedication, wonder, humility, perseverance, patience, rhythm in life, and
interest in and love for life itself, other human
beings, and the world. Put another way, this is a
heart-centered path.
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Clearly, Rudolf Steiner’s invocation of the
centrality of the heart has many different and
esoteric levels and dimensions of meaning.
And certainly, the heart is no metaphor. In a
For those unfamiliar with meditation, How to
Know Higher Worlds and the relevant chapters
of Theosophy and An Outline of Esoteric Science
More radiant than the Sun,
Purer than the snow,
Finer than the ether,
Is the Self,
The Spirit in my heart.
This Self am I.
I am this Self.
As Steiner puts it in the second volume of Esoteric Lessons:
An esoteric saying states, “All paths into
the spiritual world go through the heart.”
During meditation we can feel how, from
every point of our external physical body
lines go toward a center point. This middle
point is the heart. In their further course
these lines continue on in the opposite
direction into the spiritual world. This is like
a feeling of Christ within us.
Or, in this volume, as the brief meditation for
Lucie Bürgi (c.1912–1913) succinctly states:
The meaning of the world lies in the hearts of
human beings.
sense, it should be taken literally. Perhaps the
simplest and most relevant indication in this
context is that to place one’s consciousness
in the heart—to be oriented in one’s meditation and one’s life toward the heart—is to be
open toward the other, toward the future. It
is where the aspiration for the union of love
and knowledge may be fulfilled. This is also
true of the verses and sentences in this book.
Received from the spiritual world, by their
form, rhythm, and language, they are likewise
turned wholly toward it. They create an open
space, a site, for heart-oriented practice in the
same direction—toward the other, the future,
for the sake of the world.
Nevertheless, in a sense, all this is beside the
point. One can—and perhaps it is best—enter
this book directly with no more preparation
than an open heart and an open mind. The
meditations themselves will work their magic
and teach us.
The fire’s glow turns wood into a warming ray,
Knowing’s resolving will turns work into force.
Let your work be the shadow that your “I”
casts when it is shone upon by the flame
of your higher self.
Without faith, work remains dead:
Faith stokes the breath of the work and bears
it into the heights of the ether,
It draws the breath of the work into itself
and brings it as a sacrifice of becoming
to being.
(Notebook, July 1903)
CHRISTOPHER BAMFORD
is Editor in Chief for SteinerBooks and its imprints. A
Fellow of the Lindisfarne
Association, he has lectured,
taught, and written widely
on Western spiritual and
esoteric traditions. He is
the author of The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart
of Celtic Christianity (1990) and An Endless
Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the
West (2003). He has also translated and edited
numerous books, including Celtic Christianity:
Ecology and Holiness (1982); Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science; and The Noble
Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. V. de L.
Milosz (all from Lindisfarne Books).
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New Books
Via Podiensis, Path of Power
A Walk from le Puy, France,
to San Juan de la Peña, Spain
MARIE-LAURE VALANDRO
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n a kind of sequel to her book Camino Walk,
the author writes about her experiences on
the French section of the Via Podiensis, or the
Le Puy Route, one of four routes through France
on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in
northwest Spain and the tomb of St. James.
She again encountered a steadfast though
fleeting international community on the way
through southern France, connecting her own
experiences with significant historical events of
that area, especially those of the ninth century
in connection with key political and spiritual
figures, the Grail mysteries, and the struggles of
women of that time and region.
The book brings to life words of Rudolf
Steiner and other writers, as well as the memoirs of historical personalities. In this day-by-day,
step-by-step account, the author reveals her
struggles along the way and considers the true
purpose of such a journey—or, indeed, any journey—which is self-transformation. As with her
book Camino Walk, the reader is inspired—if not
to walk the physical Camino, to find one’s own
path to the inner challenge of change.
MARIE-LAURE
VALANDRO
has lived in several countries and has traveled and
trekked extensively. She is
an accomplished painter and
art therapist, a student of
Anthroposophy and world
religious traditions and an avid biodynamic
gardener. Her recent books include Touched: A
Painter’s Insights into the Work of Liane Collot
D’Herbois (2012) and Nutrition for Enlightened
Parenting (2014).
ISBN: 9781584201830
Paperback, Lindisfarne Books
$25.00
6 x 9 inches, 376 pages, illustrated
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In the Sign of Five
D. N. Dunlop
1879–1899–1933–1998 –Today
A Man of Our Time: A Biography
The Five Spiritual Events, Tasks and Beings of the First Half of the
Age of Michael: An Apocalyptic View of Contemporary History
T. H. MEYER
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T. H. MEYER
he author tackles the central task of our
time: the epistemological struggle with
evil, presenting the five most important spiritual events in the Age of Michael:
1. 1879: the rise of Michael to the rank of Time
Spirit
2. 1899: the end of Kali Yuga
3. 1933: the appearance of Christ in the Etheric
4. 1998: the assault of Sorath, “one of the
greatest ahrimanic demons”
5. The present: the incarnation of Ahriman
Consequently, we face the great challenge of
inner knowledge and spiritual consciousness. In
terms of history and the context of this “sign
of five,” we are at the point of Ahriman’s incarnation. Is humanity prepared for this decisive
event? Have we recognized the phenomena of
evil that surround us on a daily basis? Have the
tasks corresponding to the five events been
identified, and to what extent have they been
carried out? How is evil related to ‘the good’ that
guides the world, and specifically to the Christ
impulse? Meyer provides a vital, pithy, aphoristic
handbook for our apocalyptic times.
T. H. MEYER is the founder and
publisher of Perseus Verlag,
Basel, and editor of the monthly
journals Der Europäer and The
Present Age. He is the author of
several books including Rudolf
Steiner’s Core Mission; The Bodhisattva Question;
and Clairvoyance and Consciousness. He also
edited the book Light for the New Millennium,
has written numerous articles, and gives seminars and lectures around the world.
ISBN: 9781906999797
Paperback, Temple Lodge
$19.00
6 x 9¼ inches, 100 pages
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Afterword by Owen Barfield
his compelling narrative of Dunlop’s life
begins on the Isle of Arran, where the
motherless boy is raised by his grandfather. D.
N. Dunlop (1868–1935) combined remarkable
practical and organizational abilities in industry
and commerce along with the gifts of spiritual
and esoteric capacities. A personal friend of W.
B. Yeats and Rudolf Steiner, Dunlop was responsible for establishing the World Power Conference (today the World Energy Council) and
played leading roles in the Theosophical Society
and later in the Anthroposophical Society. In
his business life, he pioneered a cooperative
approach toward the emerging global economy.
This second, enlarged edition features substantial additions of new material and an afterword by Owen Barfield.
ISBN: 9781906999667
$55.00
Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz
A European
M
T. H. MEYER
eyer’s major biography of Ludwig
Polzer-Hoditz (1869–1945) offers a
panoramic view of an exceptional life. One of
Steiner’s most valued and independent-minded
colleagues, Polzer-Hoditz was born to an aristocratic family with royal connections. Leaving
behind his background traditions, he would
become a key player in Steiner’s regenerative
threefold social impulses, working tirelessly for
a genuinely unified, free Europe. He also fought
to protect Steiner’s esoteric legacy and the
integrity of the Anthroposophical Society.
ISBN: 9781906999643
$70.00
New Books
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W. J. Stein
Developing the Self
Guided Self-Study
A Biography
Through the Inner Work Path
in the Light of Anthroposophy
Rudolf Steiner’s Path of Spiritual Development
LISA ROMERO
TORIN M. FINSER, PHD
JOHANNES TAUTZ
ased on personal knowledge and intimate
interviews with his subject, as well as
access to W. J. Stein’s archive of letters and
documents, this is a thoroughly-researched and
lovingly-detailed study of an exceptional life.
Walter Johannes Stein (1891–1957) was an
original pioneer of Anthroposophy. He met
Rudolf Steiner while studying at Vienna University. After serving in World War I, Stein was
invited by Steiner to teach history and literature
at the new Waldorf school in Stuttgart—despite
the fact that Stein’s doctorate was in philosophy
and his training in mathematics and physics.
Tautz describes Stein’s close friendship with
Eugen Kolisko, his struggles to help establish
the threefold social order, his work as a Goetheanum lecturer, and his eventual estrangement
from the Anthroposophical Society after
Rudolf Steiner’s death. After journeys of discovery across Europe, Stein landed in London in
1933—a refugee from the Nazis—where he met
his mentor D. N. Dunlop, who employed him to
help establish the first World Power Conference.
Based in England for the last 24 years of his life,
Stein became a prolific and popular lecturer and
the editor of the important anthroposophic
journal The Present Age.
Long out-of-print, the new edition is a welcome addition to the growing number of biographies on the founders of Anthroposophy.
JOHANNES TAUTZ (1914–2008) was an author,
historian, religious scholar, anthroposophist
and Waldorf teacher (at the first Waldorf school
in Stuttgart, Germany). He studied German
and History, graduating with a dissertation on
Schelling. The author of several books, he lived
in Darmstadt, Germany.
ISBN: 9781906999766
Paperback, Rudolf Steiner Press
$$34.00
“Through taking hold of all that lives in us,
we participate consciously in the transformation of our particular personal self—
which is often closed to higher insights—
toward a greater possibility of experiencing
a living, dynamic spiritual life that awakens
our being and serves the progression of the
world in which we live.” —Lisa Romero
A
t the foundation of Western esoteric studies is an understanding of the evolution
of consciousness. Anthroposophically based
esoteric training focuses on strengthening the
human soul. Ancient and modern practices are
reenlivened to meet humanity’s evolving needs
and to fulfill our present task of cultivating freedom and love to its highest degree.
Individual efforts toward developing the
higher self is essential for genuine progress on
the inner work path. The clear insights and exercises outlined in this book reveal the meaning
and necessity of this essential effort in the present age of the consciousness soul, contributing
to simultaneously enlivening both our inner and
outer work. The path of developing the self and
our work in the world are not separated but
united through our practices and their results.
LISA ROMERO is a practicing
homeopath and adult educator
who has applied Anthroposophy
to her practice since 1990 and
delivered education enriched
with Anthroposophy since 1998.
Since 2006, the primary focus of her work
has been teaching inner development and
anthroposophic meditation. Find out more about
the work of Lisa Romero at innerworkpath.com.
ISBN: 9781621481232
$17.00
A Spiritual-Scientific Workbook
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any people today question the way
they are living their lives. Am I happy
with my current job? Am I finding meaning in
life? Is there more to life than what I received
through education? If I am in transition, can I
find the necessary strength and direction to
change my life? Many have an intuitive sense for
untapped inner potential but lack the means to
unlock that wisdom.
This guided self-study is intended to give
the seeker of spirit wisdom the needed tools
for exploring a path of self-development, selfknowledge, and freedom.
By reading the selected passages and reflecting on the accompanying questions, one can
explore new dimensions of thinking, feeling,
and doing. The hope is that—as a result of working with Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy—the
reader will become a better servant of humanity.
TORIN M. FINSER, PhD,
is Chair of the Education
Department, Antioch University New England. He
has been an educator for
30 years and a keynote
speaker at international
conferences and throughout the U.S. He has
also served as an organizational consultant,
with an emphasis on leadership. Dr. Finser is
General Secretary of the Anthroposophical
Society in America. He is the author of numerous books, including School as a Journey (1994);
School Renewal (2001); and Organizational Integrity (2007).
ISBN: 9781621481300
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“ L i f e s p a n D e v e l o p m e n t : A B r i e f O v e r v i e w ” b y R ober t a Nel son , PhD
A
nthroposophic principles, if apprehended
and thoughtfully applied, can foster personal and professional development. From the
viewpoint of human growth and development,
one such principle is recapitulation. When
we recapitulate, we repeat something. Recapitulation or mirroring is a fundamental pr inciple within Rudolf Steiner’s model of lifespan
development.
Steiner identified three main phases in
the human lifespan, progressing through
seven-year periods, each manifesting distinct
qualities within three main phases: physical or
bodily development occurring from birth to
approximately age 21; psychological or soul
development from 21 to 42; and the potential
for spiritual development from 42 to 63. . . .
Briefly, recapitulation means that we revisit
in later life the themes, issues, and tasks from
earlier in life. When we apply the recapitulation principle to the three main phases of
body, soul, and spirit, developmental tasks
and themes from between birth and the age
of 21 are taken up within a subsequent phase,
from a different angle. Each new juncture or
life phase generates the prospect of something new emerging in relation to what was
encountered in the past. Recapitulation seen
through an anthroposophic lens is not simply,
“I get another chance at this.” Instead, aspects
and forces previously unavailable become
accessible. In short, we revisit what we lived
through earlier in our lives from the vantage
point of a new place in development.
Through an anthroposophic lens, the study
of lifespan development is inspiring and
thought provoking, as well as expansive. It
adds another dimension to Erik Erikson’s wellknown psychosocial developmental phases—
it adds the spiritual picture. This addition
dramatically expands our current psychological understanding by incorporating universal
principles that support human becoming. . . .
As stated, the lifespan of a human being is
divided into three separate main phases in
Anthroposophy: maturation of body, soul, and
spirit. Each of these three is further subdivided
into three succinct cycles. Each is assigned
specific developmental tasks and themes that
will be recapitulated throughout our lives from
different standpoints. The subdivisions are
divided further into seven-year intervals, beginning with birth to age 7, then 7 to 14, 14 to 21,
and so on. . . .
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SOUL GROWTH
Following physical or bodily maturation from
birth to age 21 is the second main lifespan
phase—psychological or soul growth. This
period unfolds between ages 21 and 42. With
the arrival of the second phase, forces previously expended in physical maturation are now
freed up to unfold three periods of soul growth
identified by Rudolf Steiner as the sentient soul
phase from 21 to 27; the mind or comprehending soul from ages 28 to 35; finishing with the
unfoldment of consciousness soul from 35 to
42 years of age. The theme during these three
seven-year periods concentrates on what is
coming towards us from outside, from the
world, which meets what is within us. From this
inner-outer tension we develop our life of soul,
often aided by and moving from one crisis to
the next. . . .
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Next we move into the three seven-year
phases of spiritual maturation with the possibility of transforming our body and soul
nature. The primary psychosocial crisis from
age 42 to 63 happens within the dynamic of
generativity versus self-absorption. . . . These
seven years recapitulate, or mirror, 35 to 28, as
well as ages 14 to 7. . . .
Of course the lifespan does not necessarily
culminate at age 63. The recapitulation continues with 63 to 70 mirroring 63 to 56. From
ages 70 to 77 the period from 56 to 49 is echoed.
From 77 to 84, the years from 49 to 42 are recapitulated, and so on.
u
When I started this review of lifespan development through an anthroposophic lens, I
stated that the forthcoming developmental
principles can be personally as well as professionally beneficial. How is that so? What I have
presented is an abbreviated map, please note
this, identifying several core constructs for
what anthroposophic practitioners refer to as
biography work. It’s a protocol that includes
mainstream counseling biographical concepts, while adding spiritual tenets derived
from Rudolf Steiner’s Spiritual Science. These
additions possess the potential, if studied, of
enlarging our view of who we are and how we
develop—primary themes in mental health
schooling and practices.
The viewpoint of lifespan development, as
given by Steiner, is a threefold one, taking in
our physical, psychological, and spiritual nature,
which is seldom assimilated in mainstream
The Counselor . . .
as if Soul and Spirit Matter
Inspirations from Anthroposophy
DAVID TRESEMER, WILLIAM BENTO,
EDMUND KNIGHTON & ROBERTA NELSON
T
he art of counseling is practiced in many
settings. An uncle counsels a troubled
niece. A licensed professional clinical counselor
(LPCC) works in a treatment center for drug
addicts. A counselor can also be everything in
between the two. If you consider everyone who
mentors another—from life-coaches to police
officers to wedding planners to lawyers to intimate friends—counseling includes all of us.
Whereas mainstream counseling psychology is
moving increasingly toward cognitive and pharmacological approaches, this book returns us to
a psychology of soul and spirit. Through the guidance of Anthroposophy and Sophia, counselors
will rediscover an approach to people that has
the heart of soul, and the light of spirit.
DAVID TRESEMER, PhD, has a doctorate in psychology and is associate professor of psychology
at Rudolf Steiner College for the certificate program in Counseling Psychology, with concentration in Anthroposophic Psychology. He is also the
author of Star Wisdom and Rudolf Steiner.
WILLIAM BENTO, PhD, has worked in the field
of human development for more than thirty
years. He is also the author of Lifting the Veil of
Mental Illness: An Approach to Anthroposophical
Psychology (2003).
EDMUND KNIGHTON, PhD, employs movement
concepts and spatial awareness exercises. He is
a clinical psychologist in somatic and pre- and
perinatal psychology.
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mental health literature. With the incorporation of the spiritual dimension, the reviewer
will discover that the inclusion of Spirit amends
the knowledge we already possess of our physical and psychological nature. The thoughtful
reviewer will deduce (as many have) that wellintended clinicians are regrettably diagnosing
and counseling from a reductionist view of
human nature. The biography work outlined
today has the possibility of moving us towards
a holistic practice grounded in spiritual developmental principles. Such principles possess a key
that can unlock healing forces, transforming
self-destructive behaviors evident in addiction,
anxiety, or mood disorders.
Although counseling literature stresses the
importance of inner or self-development, I
am aware that this often does not occur in our
schooling processes. From my perspective,
this is a significant oversight with far-reaching
consequences. I work in a residential treatment
facility functioning as a mental health addiction
clinician. I journey alongside adult clients who
have been diagnosed with co-occurring disorders. In other words, every adult that I see has
more than one diagnosis. All are struggling with
addiction plus mental health disorders such as,
but not limited to, depression, bi-polar, generalized anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Many clients exhibit personality disorders such
as borderline or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Almost every client has experienced neglect or abuse in childhood. For them
the world is not a place of safety or goodness.
They understandably mistrust not only others
but sadly they mistrust themselves.
Inner development practices, including biographical study, are invaluable. Because I have
had the opportunity to look at my life through
an anthroposophic lens, I perceive my issues as
well as impressions of my clients’ possible diagnoses as opportunities rather than pathologies.
Bernard Lievegoed characterized development
as the process of meeting and overcoming
obstacles. William Bento has described pathology as a path of initiation, a pathway toward
becoming all that we were intended to be. Our
lives hold a treasure chest filled with gems if we
choose to plumb the depths and the heights of
who we truly are.
Since I struggle with self-awareness and
change, with viewing the recesses of my soul, its
ups and downs, I am not unlike my clients. We
share a common destiny entitled: “Meeting and
Overcoming Our Obstacles.” I experience that
they sense this commonality. They know that
we are comrades. (This does not mean that I
disrespect ethical boundaries.) Consequently I
do not take on a hierarchical relationship with
the men and women that I counsel. I do not
adopt the voice of authority; instead, I proceed
as Roberto Assagioli advised students of Psychosynthesis: The clinician’s goal is to awaken
the latent wisdom dwelling within the client,
rather than a platform for the therapist to
espouse his or her own knowledge.
In the residential treatment facility where I
work, I witness arrested development over and
over again. What is meant by arrested development? It is development that has stopped
prematurely. It is stuck. How does arrested
development manifest? Imagine sitting across
from a 6’2’’ male, who is 27 years old, yet unable
to hold a job, although he seems intelligent. He
is homeless. He has no idea what he would like
to do with his life. He has little understanding
of who he is. Getting along with his peers is
difficult. In fact, he is rather clumsy in social settings. He is constantly experiencing perceived
and real rejection although he is an attractive
likeable young adult. Instead of self-sufficiency,
he is dependent. It can be quite confusing for
those who meet him and, most important, for
himself. On one hand, he presents as a young
adult; on the other hand, he is not functioning
as one. His development was arrested usually
around the time when he began to abuse drugs
or alcohol.
When such clients are shown the lifespan
developmental map designed by George and
Gisela O’Neil, briefly outlined today, the client
lights up. I will usually be swiftly asked: “Can we
do this? How do I get this chart?” It surprises me
how rapidly a client, with little or no coaching,
begins to construct meaning from a previously
unknown map of the human lifespan. The jargon
does not seem to snag them, another surprise.
Instead they are eagerly hoping to understand
and heal their own developmental processes. As
friends and clinicians we have the opportunity
to aid their search for meaning. . . .
S E V E N A D U LT
LEARNING PROCESSES
I rely on the seven adult learning processes
as introduced by Rudolf Steiner. They have
clear connections to the life phases of human
development. I use them in every aspect of my
counseling practice. Each of these processes
requires the activation of self-observation or
witness consciousness, a function of the “I AM”
or transpersonal self. I have summarized and
condensed these processes based on the brilliant interpretations by Coenraad von Houten.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Observing: What we objectively observe
through our 12 senses. Facts. What do I hear/
see, etc.?
Relation/Warming: How are we experiencing or connecting to the information/observation? What did we warm to? What were we
cooled by?
Digesting/Assimilation: An active step. Taking the information and breaking it down.
Analyzing. Dissecting. What does the information, or my reaction to the observation,
say about me?
Individualizing/Absorbing: Open, active,
attentive space. Listening inwardly. Review
and release preceding information into
silence. Listen into the spiritual world.
Reconnection with the Divine. Seek new
questions, insights, impulses. Caution: New
awareness can evaporate; therefore record
quickly.
Practicing: The new impulse, question, or
insight needs to be incubated. Nurtured.
Brought into the will. What does this information have to do with my life now? How do
I work with it?
Developing/Growing a New Faculty: Implement a practice so that the new faculty can
be developed.
Creating Something New: As a result of processes 1-6, something new will be created,
fashioned in your life.
ROBERTA R. NELSON, PhD, LPCC, LAC, specializes in trauma therapy. She is employed at a
residential treatment facility working alongside
men and women who have co-occurring diagnoses. In 1997, she founded ReConnect: A Center
for Schooling and Counseling, dedicated to
bridging the gap between mainstream mental
health, psychosynthesis, and Spiritual Science.
Dr. Nelson’s recent affiliation with APANA
(Anthroposophic Psychology Associates of
North America) is a continuation of her lifelong
goal to establish a professional training that
would connect contemporary education with
the wellspring that lives in esoteric traditions.
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New in Th e C oll e ct e d Work s of
Communicating Anthroposophy
The Christ Impulse
The Course for Speakers
to Promote the Idea of Threefolding
And the Development of Ego-Consciousness
RUDOLF STEINER
Translated and introduced by Christian von Arnim
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Translated by Rory Bradley
7 lectures, Berlin, Oct.–May 1909 (CW 116)
12 lectures and a question-and-answer session,
Stuttgart, Jan. 1–2, and Feb. 12–17, 1921 (CW 338)
rom time to time, when reading Rudolf
Steiner’s Collected Works we encounter a
previously unknown set of lectures that seems
specialized and of interest mainly to those concerned with its theme—in this case, a course
for those about to embark on a speaking tour
to promote the “threefold” socioeconomic
concept. Then, however, we discover various
subthemes that spark unexpected insights into
Anthroposophy, as well as into Steiner himself,
who suddenly appears in a new light. In such
cases, we may encounter a passage or lecture
that illumines, challenges, and ultimately transforms what we think we know, and our perspective changes. Our habitual understanding falls
away, and we grasp that what we are reading
is not information or description; rather, it is a
call to act in a new way. Thus, we are no longer
simply readers, but also participants in the
adventure of Anthroposophy.
Reading these lectures, we come to realize
that everything Steiner enjoins, and the way
he does so, applies to a much greater field than
what he addresses explicitly. The participants—
who would be going out to speak—were doing
so as representatives of Anthroposophy. When
they speak of a threefold society, it would be
as only a single manifestation of what living
Anthroposophy can be. As such, they must
themselves become living manifestations of
Anthroposophy. From this point of view, this
course could also be called “How to Be an
Anthroposophist.”
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RUDOLF STEINER
the human soul properly while here in life”—
will be “vampirized” by that being after passing
through the gate of death. Steiner elaborates
on the activities of the adversarial beings in
today’s civilization—spiritual powers that play a
needed role in Earth’s evolution—and how we
can counteract them.
“Christ will reappear but in a higher reality
than the physical one—in a reality that we
will see only if we have first acquired a sense
and understanding of spiritual life. Inscribe
in your hearts what Anthroposophy should
be—preparation for the great epoch of
humanity that lies ahead of us.”
—Rudolf Steiner
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peaking in Berlin while still a representative of the largely Eastern-oriented Theosophical Society, Steiner presents multifaceted
perspectives on the Christ impulse based on his
independent spiritual research—from the vast
cycles of time that preceded Christ’s incarnation
and the preparation for his coming to physical
embodiment about two thousand years ago
in Palestine as Jesus of Nazareth. Steiner also
describes how Christ will influence the future
development of the Earth and humanity.
Translated and introduced by
Simon Blaxland-de Lange
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How the Spiritual World
Projects into Physical Existence
Human Evolution
A Spiritual-Scientific Quest
RUDOLF STEINER
9 lectures, Dornach, Aug. 17–Sept. 2, 1918 (CW 183)
eturning from travels in war-torn Europe,
Steiner gives a stark impression of the
disastrous conditions of the time, encouraging deeper esoteric work to counter the crises.
Speaking of human development in the light of
Anthroposophy, he analyzes the gulf between
contemporary culture and science (which he
says are characterized by “narrow-mindedness,
ignorance and ineptitude”) and a scientific
approach to the spirit. Steiner is clear about
the shortcomings of his followers, mentioning
past failures and a continuing tendency toward
sectarianism and dogmatic judgment.
R
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The Influence of the Dead
RUDOLF STEINER
Spirit as Sculptor
of the Human Organism
Introduction by Margaret Jonas
Translated by Anna Meuss
10 lectures, various cities, Jan.–Dec. 1913 (CW 150)
eath is a predominant topic as Steiner
explains how people on Earth can reach
the dead in a non-mediumistic way and how
such interaction between “living” and “dead” is
mutually beneficial. He states that people who
do not recognize the being of Lucifer during
their earthly life—those who have not “already
got to intuit and know the luciferic impulses in
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The Influence of the Dead
RUDOLF STEINER
Translated and Introduced by Matthew Barton
16 lectures, various cities, Oct. 9-Dec. 9, 1922 (CW 218)
aking a truly holistic approach, Steiner
tackles an eclectic series of subjects
throughout these sixteen lectures, all united by
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the common theme of rediscovering how spirit
pervades life.
In a wide-ranging series of lectures, Rudolf
Steiner demonstrates the integral nature of
spirit and matter and their manifold connections. Speaking to audiences in London, Holland,
Germany, and Switzerland, Steiner explains
how, through a process of evolving consciousness, humanity lost its knowledge and direct
experience of the spiritual sources of existence
but now needs to reconnect with them. Spirit is
the essence and power of life that, in Steiner’s
vivid image, “strikes a match in our whole being”
when we allow it to inform us fully.
Anthroposophy and the Inner Life
The Future of Humanity and the Earth
An Esoteric Introduction
As Foreseen by Rudolf Steiner
RUDOLF STEINER
RICHARD SEDDON
9 lectures, Jan. 19 – Feb. 10, 1924 (CW 234)
lthough these lectures were given to an
audience familiar with Anthroposophy,
Steiner nevertheless described them as “introductory.” They reformulate Spiritual Science
from a condensed, personal viewpoint. Steiner
complements his book Theosophy, challenging
us to cultivate a living experience of the spiritual
nature of ourselves and the world.
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RUDOLF STEINER
12 lectures, Dornach, June 25–July 7, 1924 (CW 317)
peaking in 1924, when general attitudes to
people with special needs were far from
enlightened, Steiner gave this seminal lecture
course to a small group of teachers and doctors
as a basis for their future work. In the current
cultural context, regressive ideas such as social
Darwinism and eugenics were not only tolerated but popular (some 15 years after these
lectures were delivered, the Nazis initiated
their so-called euthanasia program). In contrast,
Steiner—who had, as a young man, successfully
tutored a boy with special needs—was devoted
to the progressive task of special education and,
in the words of one of those present, “gave the
course with pleasure and satisfaction.”
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ichard Seddon has drawn together the
essence of hundreds of Rudolf Steiner’s
lectures to create this broad overview of the
future for humanity and the Earth. He takes us
from the present through the sixth and seventh,
future epochs, as well as the Jupiter, Venus, and
Vulcan stages of Earth.
RICHARD SEDDON also authored Mani, His Life
and Work; Europa; The End of the Millennium;
and The Mystery of Arthur at Tintagel.
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Human and Cosmic Thought
Education for Special Needs
The Curative Education Course
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RUDOLF STEINER
Intervals, Scales, Tones
4 lectures, Berlin, Jan. 20–23, 1914 (CW 151)
teiner demonstrates that there are twelve
main philosophical standpoints and
that the future of philosophy rests not upon
defending one and refuting the others, but in
learning to experience the validity of them all.
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And the Concert Pitch c = 128 Hz
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The British
Character, Psychology, and Destiny
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W. J. STEIN
tein writes on everything British—from
geography, history, politics, and economics
to the arts and religion. He reflects on the British
idea of freedom, as well as Great Britain’s somewhat mysterious propensity to extend itself and
its language and culture around the world.
W. J. STEIN (1891–1957) was a pioneer of
Anthroposophy and a personal student of the
Rudolf Steiner..
MARIA RENOLD
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Edited by Anna Meuss
Translated by Bevis Stevens
he author provides a wealth of scientific
data—the results of her lifelong research
into the classical Greek origins of Western
music and into new developments of today. She
deepens musical understanding through Rudolf
Steiner’s spiritual-scientific research, elucidating many of his statements about music.
MARIA RENOLD (1917–2003) studied eurythmy,
violin, and viola and later toured with a chamber
orchestra and string quartet. First published in
German in 1985, her book has become a modern
classic of serious musical research.
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“ P r e f a c e t o a n E s o t e r i c M i n e r a l o g y ” by Friedrich Benesch
T
he image handed down at the end of the
Bible, in a few sentences of the Greek
language of the first century ��, can be counted
among the greatest riddles of world literature.
It is the image of the Heavenly Jerusalem at the
end of the final book of the New Testament, the
“Revelation of St. John,” the Apocalypse. For the
suprasensory vision of the Apocalyptist John, a
comprehensive image sets itself apart from the
background of heaven: the imagination of a
city, hovering and majestically luminous, slowly
moving in its descent from heaven to the Earth.
Among the elements of the image are geometric measures and figures, heavenly beings and
substances, self-luminous manifestations, architectural structures, and writing on the building
components that convey the names of persons
and groups of people. Everything is bathed in
a light that emanates from Divine Being itself.
Moreover, the whole evokes an impression
of originary, germinal virginity, the quality of
a “bride” adorned for her groom. Its purpose,
after all, is betrothal to the divine being called
the “Lamb.” Thus, the city is illuminated by the
divine from three sides. It fills itself with the Godhead as a temple; in the light it interweaves with
the Godhead; its intended purpose is to become
impregnated by the Godhead in the form of an
ongoing, most exalted nuptial ceremony. The
whole, consisting of form, measure, color and
light, is filled with the sound of the word Come!
All this proves to be perfect union, harmony
and totality, interpenetration and transparency;
but at the same time the strictest differentiation and arrangement by measure, number, and
figure. It is constructed—and its construction
followed through to conclusion—as a “city.” Furthermore, it is plantlike in form: its components
were autonomous parts that are now conjoined
such that the whole is fully present in them, while
each component nevertheless is autonomous.
To be sure: its substances are the materiality
of light and of color; but also of mineral existence. What may previously have been something quite different has become a mineral here,
which lends it the character of chastity, purity,
constancy, and indestructible sterling quality—whereby the substance seems in diverse
ways to correspond to what in our mineral
world reminds us of the highest, noblest, purest sense appearance: gold, pearls, precious
stones, crystals, glass. The substance of light
and of minerals manifests as two sides of the
One godly primal substance, which is the basis
for all individual detail. In the motif of the wedding, this substantiality becomes evident as
that of divine love.
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It is this living essence of love that composes
itself, amid the luminescent shapes and intoning,
to become the word Come! In this come, lives
singing, music, word, and primal articulation of
this whole mysterious essence.
In the document of the Revelation, this
essence has a name: the city of Jerusalem.
According to research that has been done, there
is a whole series of derivations of this name.
In general, it is translated as “city of peace.”
Appendix 30 of this book consists of an article
from the Biblisch-historisches Handbuch on the
etymology of this ancient city name, from which
one can gain an impression of how research has
struggled for this word’s interpretation and its
origin alike.
The actual mystery of this city imagination is
its “substance,” its “construction material,” the
suprasensory mineral nature of which becomes
the central question. The present book is an
attempt to answer this question, which, in simplified form, reads as follows:
1.
Are mineral substances pure matter or are
they of spiritual nature?
2. Are there only material minerals that are
perhaps also spiritual, or are there also
“spiritual minerals” of non-material nature?
3. How are we to understand the concrete minerals used to build the Heavenly Jerusalem?
These three questions place us before the
problem of an “esoteric mineralogy.” For anything purely spiritual can be the object only
of esoteric cognition, esoteric research, and
science. Esoteric science presupposes, though,
that not matter but rather spirit is the actual,
original, and essential reality of the world—
hence of the mineral world as well. This fundamental question of knowledge, regarding our
modern consciousness, can be structured into
sub-questions in the following way:
1.
The primacy of the spirit or of substance, of
matter. Either the spirit is the origin and all
that is material is a densified or condensed
manifestation of the spirit, or else matter is
what comes first and all that is spiritual but
a function of matter, a product of material
processes of sublimation.
2. The primacy of life or of death. Either life is
the origin, and what is dead is a precipitation of the living; or the dead, mechanical
is what comes first, and life a more complicated mechanism of the dead.
3. The primacy of the gestalt or of the atom.
Either the gestalt—the living, organic structure, the whole, the unity—is the origin,
and dust—the atom, the particle, the quantum—is a decimated gestalt, or the atom is
the origin, and the whole is the mere result
of mutual interaction of a sum of atoms
according to structural laws, probabilities.
4. Primacy of the meaningful and harmonious or of the meaningless and coincidental.
Either harmony, context and unison, the
meaningful idea, the cosmic plan—including preestablished harmony in the Leibnizian sense—is the origin, or meaningless
coincidence stands at the beginning (atomic
theory’s “Big Bang”).
5. The primacy of the essential or of the objective. Beings, persons, and “I”-beings are the
origin, or else objects and circumstances
come first, and essences are merely appearance, or mere illusions of self-experience.
6. The primacy either of natural law as the
actual law of the cosmos, or of the ethical
world order proceeding from a soul and
spiritual world that is the basis of the whole
of world events and active within them, and
through which natural law becomes provident—that is, assumes “higher meaning.”
Of these two-times-six possibilities, one can
take either the first or the second of each pair
as a postulate and make it the premise for one’s
thinking about the world. If one takes spirit, life,
unity, meaning, essence, and providence as the
origin, one will find in matter, death, particle,
coincidence, and object the appearance of the
former in the latter. One will find the outer
manifestation of something spiritual, living, and
essential in every sensory phenomenon; and
one will endeavor, based on this knowledge, to
ascend through the veil of the sensory to an
understanding of this essence.
However, one can also assume the second
possibility as one’s point of departure, in which
case one will endeavor to find out how spirit is
derived from matter, life from death, wholeness from particles, meaning from chance, and
essence from objects. But one’s view on the
specifically spiritual, living, whole, meaningful
and essential will always be obfuscated by the
point of departure one has chosen, since one
possesses organs and concepts for matter,
mechanism, detail, chance and object. To be
sure, for spirit, life, wholeness, and essence,
one has organs as well; but one is equipped with
them in seed-form only; they have to be awakened and developed. One has to do something
for them. If in our thinking we support ourselves
on substance, mechanism, particle, chance,
object, we become untrue as human beings, for
f r o m A p o c a l y p s e , t h e Tr a n s f o r m a t i o n o f E a r t h
Apocalypse,
the Transformation of Earth
An Esoteric Mineralogy
FRIEDRICH BENESCH
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Foreword by Robert Sardello
n the Revelation of St. John, spiritual worlds
and spiritual entities appear both in images
of the sensory world and in images of the mineral realm. This book discusses these two sides
of world manifestation.
The images of the minerals in the Apocalypse
are just as much reality as the minerals are on
Earth. Neither is essential; both are simply
manifestations of something essential. Hence,
both are truly apocalyptic—the mineral we
hold in our hand and the image we hold in our
mind. They reveal themselves mutually.
This book juxtaposes the objects of sensory
appearance and natural-scientific research
with the sayings of the Revelation of St. John
to express the joint background of the appearances. One connected with the other can then
lead to an encounter with the essence. Thus,
we are dealing with an “esoteric mineralogy.”
This book can lead to a renewed encounter
between human beings and mineral being,
from which essence and future can then shine
forth into human consciousness and the world.
FRIEDRICH BENESCH (1907–
1991) earned doctorates in
biology, theology, and anthropology. He was ordained in
The Christian Community and
became the leader of its seminary in Stuttgart in 1957. He traveled, lectured,
and published extensively.
ISBN: 9781584201656
$45.00
Includes 48 color images
we live in both matter and spirit at the same
time—in the material appearance of the outer
world on the one hand, and in thinking, feeling,
and willing within the inwardly manifesting
thought and soul world on the other. However,
since we ourselves are the latter, we have no
self-knowledge to begin with; rather, we are
blind for spirit, soul, and life. Like the eye that
sees the world but not itself, we do not see ourselves. If by holding to the second series of presuppositions we interpret the first series away,
we live with a fundamental alteration complex.
This causes the human soul in its depths to be
ground down; the mockery, ridicule, and contempt with which people treat the primacy of
the spirit, in such a case, are the expression of
this violent displacement into the unconscious;
this is a contortion of the human essence that
yearns for the primacy of the spirit.
One will always be confronted, however, by
the difficulty of grasping that everything in the
world that manifests sensorially, from stones up
to the stars, passing over into the non-sensory
in two opposite directions. For the path from
the world of sense appearance to the fields
researched by modern atomic physics—that is,
elementary particles and the material fields of
the laws of stasis, is completely different from
the one leading to the realities of life. Life, the
soul, and the conscious mind transition to a
suprasensory area, quantum physics to a subsensory one. In either case, we are dealing with
spiritual matters, each constituting the physical
from a different side. Behind both the subsensory and the suprasensory manifestations, we
seek something person-like, something ideal
at work behind them. At first, we will be able
to perceive not this personal nature itself, but
only its effects in the form of influences from
the one side, and of qualities and images from
the other side. From the regularities and ideas
specific to each respective side, we will be able
to advance to the respective essence or entity.
An essence, or entity, must be able to manifest not only as spirit, but also as substance;
substance, however, can be the expression
only of an entity and cannot be one itself. We
can understand spirit as entity, because we
have encountered it as we encounter other
persons. On the whole, we know who a person is, how he or she perceives, thinks, feels,
wills, and acts. We can also discover from this
person why that individual acts. Substance,
or matter, can be seen through, but not comprehended. We know how it functions but
not why. Thus, it is understandable why and
how spirit becomes matter, but we will not be
able to understand how matter becomes an
entity of a personal nature, unless we assume
that spirit itself is active within it. Moreover,
we can also understand why and how matter
is capable of revealing spirit, life, wholeness,
meaning, and essence.
This is why it is possible with the first presupposition—primacy of spirit—to arrive at a
fulfilled, meaningful knowledge of the world.
The second presupposition, when dealt with
as a primacy, leads to nothing but a meaningless, empty grasping of the outer aspect of
the world.
In the Revelation of St. John, spiritual worlds
and spiritual entities appear both in images of
the sensory world and in images of the mineral
realm. In what follows, I have attempted to
engage in a discussion of these two sides of
world manifestation.
Now the argument could be made that the
images of the Apocalypse are intended in a
purely symbolic way. If this is so, the mineral
appears as a symbol for something of a soullike and spiritual nature. The Apocalyptist,
however, saw not symbols but realities; even
a symbol can be genuine only if something of
the reality for which it stands shines through. It
must be inwardly identical, in a real way, with
what it intends, with the essence from which it
stems; thus it must arise from the same reality.
Otherwise it contains no meaning. The images
of the minerals in the Apocalypse are just as
much reality as the minerals are on Earth. Neither is essential; both are simply manifestations
of something essential. Hence, both are truly
Apocalyptic—the mineral we hold in our hand
and the image we hold in our mind. They reveal
themselves mutually.
In this book, I juxtapose the objects of sensory appearance and natural-scientific research
with sayings from the Revelation of St. John
to express the joint background of the appearances. One connected with the other can then
lead to an encounter with the essence. Thus,
we are dealing with “esoteric mineralogy.” On
its paths, we can strive to enable a renewed
encounter between the human being and mineral being, from which essence and future can
then shine forth.
Friedrich Benesch
Easter, 1981
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New Releases
The Challenge of Lazarus–John
Saucy Tomatoes and Blueberry Thrills
An Esoteric Interpretation
A Humorous Harvest from the Biodynamic Farm
RICHARD SEDDON
JOHN BLOOM
T
he Gospel of John, in contrast to the
“synoptic gospels,” is the most esoteric
and challenging account of Jesus Christ’s
life, death and resurrection. Richard Seddon
gathered essential but often-overlooked quotations from the work of Rudolf Steiner, who
researched many of the incidents recorded in
John’s Gospel and reported his results in numerous lectures. By compiling Steiner’s statements,
Seddon shows that John’s Gospel not only gives
a historical account, but also represents a path
of self-development and initiation.
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The Creative Choir
B
eginning with an inquiring mind, a sharp
wit, and a vegetable (in that order), Mr.
Bloom bounds from the biodynamic soil of Live
Power Farm CSA in California, glides through
literature, art, language, and history (all vegetable-related, of course), and lands back down in
the rich compost of possibility. Inspired, above
all, by his deep appreciation for the CSA model
(and the food such farms produce), this collection, informative but lighthearted, points the
way toward a more healthful future: from good
food and humor, more good things will come.
JOHN BLOOM is Director of Organizational
Culture at RSF Social Finance in San Francisco
(rsfsocialfinance.org). He is also author of The
Genius of Money from SteinerBooks.
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$11.95
5¼ x 8 inches, 134 pages
A Holistic Approach to Working with Singers
JAMES NEILSON GRAHAM
B
eginning with education and the rehearsal
process, the author delves into the theory
and practice of working with singers, drawing
on the insights of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in
relation to movement and Valborg WerbeckSvärdström in relation to the voice.
In lively fashion (with more than seventy
music examples, diagrams, and illustrations),
James Neilson Graham challenges orthodoxies
and opens up new developmental pathways for
choir leaders and choral singers.
JAMES NEILSON GRAHAM studied literature
before encountering Valborg Werbeck-Svärdström’s School of Uncovering the Voice. Neilson
Graham eventually developed a new approach
to choral conducting with an emphasis on the
needs of singers.
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Metamorphoses of Light
Lightning, Rainbows and the Northern Lights
A Spiritual-Scientific Study
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WALTER BÜHLER
he essence of light is to shine—it radiates
dynamically in all directions at an unimaginable speed, never resting. By contrast, the
nature of matter is heavy, static, and condensed.
But matter such as crystal, water, vapor, and air
can also let light through. Water and air thus act
as “mercurial” factors, allowing the creative
potential of light to appear in a diversity of
colors. The “acts and suffering of light” are also
found in many inorganic phenomena such as the
northern lights. By seeing the laws within phenomena, Goethe approached an understanding
of the etheric formative forces. The object of
this book is the observation of nature’s natural
wonders using Goethe’s methodical process.
DR. WALTER BÜHLER (1913–1995) studied
medicine and science. He was cofounder and
director of the Paracelsus Hospital in Bad
Liebenzell-Unterlengenhardt, and a board member for the Association for an Extended System
of Medicine and worked extensively as a teacher
and lecturer. He wrote numerous articles and
several books, including Living With Your Body.
ISBN: 9781906999803
$18.00
The Living Origin of Rocks and Minerals
I
WALTHER CLOOS
ncreasingly, people are attracted to the rich
variety of rocks and minerals that surround
us, looking for new ways of seeing them. In this
book, Walther Cloos considers the Earth as a
living organism having three main kingdoms of
nature—mineral, plant, and animal—as stages
left behind as the Earth evolved. He suggests
that everything now inert and static was once
dynamic and alive. He considers many different
aspects of geology, including oil, sedimentary
rocks, radioactivity, volcanoes, and metals.
Written more than fi fty years ago, this classic
work pioneers a scientific, geological understanding of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual insights
into the Earth’s evolution. This author is one of
the most frequently quoted sources in Friedrich
Benesch’s epic work, Apocalypse, the Transformation of Earth (see page 12).
The previous edition of this book was published as The Living Earth.
WALTHER CLOOS (1900–1985) studied phar-
macy in Stuttgart, where he attended lectures
on mineralogy and geology. He heard Rudolf
Steiner at the independent academic courses
in 1921, but it was his study of Steiner’s written
works that led Cloos to appreciate him. Cloos
took great interest in the plant world, and especially in the medicinal plants he was growing
himself at Weleda.
ISBN: 9781782501732
Paperback, Floris Books
$19.95
New Editions and Reprints
From Symptom to Reality
in Modern History
book acquire fresh meaning in isolation, mysteriously becoming independent of the thoughts
and phrases that precede or follow them.
RUDOLF STEINER
ISBN: 9781855844131
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5 x 6¾ inches, 82 pages
9 lectures, Dornach, Oct.–Nov. 1918 (CW 185)
n a radical approach to understanding
current affairs and history, Rudolf Steiner
presents a method of penetrating to the hidden
causes and realities behind sensory appearance.
Contemporary life cannot be understood fully
by analysis limited to outer events, he says. We
see deeper levels of meaning when we begin
to see such events as symptoms. The causes of
those symptoms—the reality behind them—
are discovered on other levels of existence.
Steiner describes a “symptomatological”
approach, surveying some of the great developments in consciousness that helped form the
world over the centuries. He examines the role
of true socialism and the rise of nationalism
and characterizes contrasting approaches to
religion by distintuishing between “the People
of the Christ” in Russia, “the People of the
Church” in Central Europe, and “the People of
the Lodges” in the West.
I
ISBN: 9781855844131
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Pearls of Thought
Self-Knowledge
The Journey to Wisdom
Higher Knowledge, the Guardian of the Threshold,
and the Power of Christ
RUDOLF STEINER, SELECTED QUOTATIONS
ISBN: 9781855844124
$16.00
RUDOLF STEINER, SELECTED QUOTATIONS
ike pearls in the oyster, pearls of thought
are easily overlooked. Lying hidden in texts,
they keep their light under a bushel, serving the
greater framework and context. But when we
draw them out, they begin to shine and reveal
their translucent facets and intrinsic harmony.
In this meditative treasure, the editor, D.
Baumgartner, harvested and threaded together
such pearls from Rudolf Steiner’s books, creating new textures and striking panoramas.
Dynamic constellations of thought arise, allowing surprising access to Steiner’s spiritual and
philosophical thinking. The thoughts in this
PIETRO ARCHIATI was a missionary in Laos
(during the Vietnam war) and has worked with
Anthroposophy since 1977. His books include
From Christianity to Christ and Reincarnation in
Modern Life.
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M
any spiritual traditions speak of a
“guardian” or “dweller” who protects
the threshold to the spiritual world, warning
the unprepared to pause in their quest for
higher knowledge. The Guardian reveals the
consequences of our negative actions and
points to the full reality of our untransformed
nature. This experience is said to be one of the
deepest and most harrowing on the inner path,
but is an essential precondition to any form of
true initiation.
As spiritual seekers we need true self-knowledge to distinguish between what belongs to
our own consciousness and all that is objectively
part of the spiritual environment. Steiner taught
that, so long as we avoid such knowledge, our
spiritual quest will be in vain.
Words of Wisdom
L
toward the atheistic assumptions of materialistic science, will almost inevitably misrepresent
Steiner’s work.
Archiati’s exposition works both as a critique
of a new edition of Steiner’s work and as an
introduction to key tenets of anthroposophic
methodology and thought.
Spiritual Science in the Third Millennium
Intellectuality Versus Anthroposophy
U
PIETRO ARCHIATI
ntil now, academia has largely ignored
Rudolf Steiner’s work. In 2013, however,
the first volume of a new series—a critical edition of Steiner’s writings, edited by a professor
of the largest religious university in the U.S.—
was published by a German academic press. Taking this concrete case as an illustration, Pietro
Archiati argues that academia, with its bias
Deep Time
A Novel
ANTHONY NANSON
“The deeper in you go, the wilder it gets . . .”
Z
oologist Dr. Brendan Merlie has wasted
his best years in futile pursuit of imaginary
creatures. He’s now leading a survey of an ecological hotspot in a forgotten corner of Central
Africa. Guided by the enigmatic Salome Boann,
a woman strangely at ease in the rainforest and
with her own reasons for being there, the team
discover a “refugium” of prehistoric plantlife.
Among the forest people, they hear rumors of
animals unknown to science. Driven by civil war
and their own competing desires, Brendan and
his companions enter a shifting world where
they must deal with the wildness within, as well
as with the wildness around them. The deeper
they travel, the more is revealed—beyond Brendan’s wildest dreams.
ANTHONY NANSON has been telling stories
professionally and leading storytelling courses
since 1999. He is also the author of Storytelling
and Ecology.
ISBN: 9781907359590
Paperback, Hawthorn Press
$30.00
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Recent Books
Vegetable Gardening for Organic
and Biodynamic Growers
Nutrition for Enlightened Parenting
Muck and Mind
Initiation through Foods
JOEL MORROW
Encountering Biodynamic Agriculture:
An Alchemical Journey
“Biographies” of more than 70 vegetables,
with detailed accounts of how to grow
them, their climate of origin, their transformation over time, and their nutritional and
therapeutic potential
Do we take in food consciously and eat to live?
Do we take in food unconsciously and live to eat?
What really happens when we digest our food?
What really feeds us?
Should we eat meat or no meat?
How about raising our children?
I
n the 1980s, Joel became editor of the journal
Biodynamics, in which he began 30 years of
“interviews” with vegetables. This book is the
result. He tell us, “Though these biographies
are arranged alphabetically for convenience
[from Asian Brassicas to Winter Squash], each
chapter reflects my own changing point of view,
depending on the date of interview. Some begin
historically, some morphologically, and some so
imaginatively they seem to reawaken Margareta
Leuder’s childhood shamanism.” (She was Joel’s
first garden teacher, who, as a child, raised
watermelon in the Sonoran Desert in 1905.)
This book guides the reader inwardly to perceive a vegetable as “a work of art, a journey, a
rite of passage into the natural world.” Vegetable Gardening for Organic and Biodynamic Growers is destined to become not just a perennially
useful guide, but also a favorite bedside book.
JOEL MORROW has gardened professionally
since 1974 in California, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. For a
decade, he gardened intensively three acres of
vegetables, directed mentally disabled adults,
and, for the next 30 years, installed hundreds
of flower and vegetable gardens. Today, his
seven-acre homestead in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is covered almost entirely with fruit
trees, vegetable gardens, pond gardens, hidden
gardens, woodland gardens, and flowering borders. In his spare time, he paints watercolors.
ISBN: 9781584201670
$35.00
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n Nutrition for Enlightened Parenting, MarieLaure Valandro draws on her deep study of
Rudolf Steiner and Spiritual Science, as well
as on the works of Rudolf Hauschka and Karl
König, attempting to bring greater consciousness to one of life’s most common and vital
activities—eating. Food can be the object of
instinct, desire, obsession, and even fear. We all
want to be healthy in body and soul, and gaining increased awareness of what we prepare
and put into our body can become a powerful
path toward heightened consciousness. It is
one key to taking charge of our life and determining our destiny. Through such an initiation,
we can gain the power to read the great Book
of Nature through the foods we eat, discovering what stands behind those substances—the
spiritual within the material.
Marie-Laure weaves personal stories and
observations from her travels with words of
wisdom from modern spiritual teachers. She
presents an organic picture of how we can take
charge of our day-to-day nutrition and become
more aware of ourselves and the world around
us. Illustrated with the author’s photographs.
ISBN: 9781584201694
$25.00
ALSO AVAIL ABLE
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JONATHAN MICHAEL CODE
enetic engineering affects the realm of
life, but life is not mechanical. To comprehend life, we need a fundamental shift in
our approach, one that tries to understand the
qualities of the whole living organism and its
environment, extending to the limits of the
cosmos.
This shift in approach is at the heart of biodynamic agriculture, the qualitative opposite of the
genetic manipulation of agriculture. The major
difference between these two approaches is in
the modes of consciousness behind them.
By offering us a glimpse into the development of his own thinking behind biodynamics
and genetic engineering, the author points
toward a deeper understanding for how one’s
work with the land, plants, and animals may be
a catalyst for not only the transformation of
compost and soil, but also for a transformation
of consciousness.
JONATHAN CODE lives
with his wife and two
daughters in Stroud, UK,
where he cultivates a
garden and does research.
He is the Senior Education
and Research Coordinator of the Higher Education Department of Crossfields Institute and
has taught practical chemistry, phenomenology, and natur0hjkl[]\e study to learners of all
ages for many years.
ISBN: 9781621481102
$25.00
Camino Walk
Where Inner & Outer Paths Meet
ISBN: 9781584200529
$25.00, 6 x 9 inches, 210 pages
Recent Books
Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work
Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work
A Treatise on Living Thinking
Volume 1 (1861–1890):
Childhood, Youth, and Study Years
Volume 2 (1890–1900): Weimar and Berlin
A Path beyond Western Philosophy,
beyond Yoga, beyond Zen
PETER SELG
“It makes no sense to stop where Goethe
stood. Yet we cannot progress unless we
absorb Goethe deeply and allow ourselves
to be wholly inspired by the impulses he
brought into the world.”
—Rudolf Steiner, July 18, 1891
T
o acknowledge and understand Rudolf
Steiner’s unique achievement and life’s
work, we must be able to accept that the founder
and spiritual researcher of Anthroposophy was
“a citizen of two worlds”—the spiritual and
the physical. Anthroposophy teaches that this
duality, rather than being a quality reserved
for special individualities, is inherent to human
nature. According to Steiner, it is central to being
human, even when the suprasensory aspect of
humanity is eclipsed by ordinary consciousness
and certain civilizations.
Interest in Steiner’s person and lifework will
continue to grow in the decades and centuries
ahead, even beyond the anthroposophic movement. It will take hold of very different groups
of people, especially those who have spiritual
questions or discover them in times of need.
This is the first of seven comprehensive
volumes on Rudolf Steiner’s “being, intentions,
and journey.” It presents Steiner from childhood and youth through his doctorate degree
and up to the time of his work for the Goethe
Archives as editor of Goethe’s scientific writings
(Nature’s Open Secret [CW 1] collects Steiner’s
introductions to Goethe’s scientific works). By
considering his formative years in depth, we better understand the roots and development of
Steiner’s later spiritual research and teachings.
PETER SELG is the author of numerous books
on Rudolf Steiner, significant anthroposophists,
and Spiritual Science. See more about Peter
Selg and his books on pages 24 and 25.
ISBN: 9781621480839
Hardcover, SteinerBooks
$40.00
ISBN: 9781621480822
$35.00
PETER SELG
C
hapter 1 looks at Rudolf Steiner’s years
in Weimar, beginning with his work at
the Goethe Archives editing Goethe’s scientific
works. In that capacity Steiner was able to comprehend the great spiritual depth of Goethe’s life
and work, which became the foundation for his
own lifework. This chapter also looks at his social
circles and his early works: Truth and Knowledge
(CW 3) and The Philosophy of Freedom (CW 4). It
also highlights his encounter with the work of
Friedrich Nietzsche, his visits to the Nietzsche
Archives in Naumburg, and the writing of his
book Friedrich Nietzsche: Fighter for Freedom
(CW 5). Rudolf Steiner’s time in Weimar comes to
a close with the creation of his second book on
Goethe, Goethe’s World View (CW 6), a fruit of his
work at the Goethe Archives.
Chapter 2 focuses on Steiner’s time in Berlin,
where he worked as editor of the cultural periodical, Magazin für Litteratur. He also accepted
a position as lecturer at the Workers’ School,
where he was able to soak up the riches of that
great cultural center and grow into his capacity as a teacher.
Chapter 3 covers the turn of the century and
Rudolf Steiner’s inner transition to speaking
and writing more openly of his esoteric observations on the evolution of consciousness, the
“I,” and the training of cognition.
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$40.00
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$35.00
T
MASSIMO SCALIGERO
his treatise, though logically formulated
and accessible, proposes a task that
few can probably actualize. Its thoughts are
assembled so that retracing them becomes the
proposed experience. This experience, insofar
as it is realized, is not merely one of many possibilities, but an experience of our inner essence,
which the spirit demands of us at the present
time.
The treatise cannot be refuted philosophically, since it is based on a kind of experience
that must be achieved if we wish to have a means
by which to question it. However, those who are
able to achieve it begin to live within a thinking
that penetrates the world. It is the thinking that
is the truth of all theories and of none, because
it is their pre-dialectical substance.
By experiencing the thoughts presented, we
can experience the power of “concentration,”
or the tangible presence of the spirit—the path
of living thinking, the transcendence present
but not cognized in each thought that we think.
MASSIMO SCALIGERO (1906 –
2006), born in Veroli, Calabria,
was a spiritual master who
drank deep from both Western
and Eastern traditions. He was
equally at home with Western
philosophy, psychology, and esotericism (Rosicrucianism, Templarism, and Anthroposophy)
and Eastern meditative practices. He was the
author of numerous books, including (translated into English and published by Lindisfarne
Books) The Light (La Luce): An Introduction to
Creative Imagination (2001), and The Secrets of
Space and Time (2013).
ISBN: 9781584201793
$12.00
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Recent Publications
The Illusion of Separation
Old and New Mysteries
Exploring the Cause of our Current Crises
From Trials to Initiation
Introduction to the Mystery Plays
of Rudolf Steiner
GILES HUTCHINS
BASTIAAN BAAN
EILEEN HUTCHINS
“S
eparateness” is an illusion we created—a
dangerous delusion that infects how we
relate to business, politics, and our daily reality.
Giles Hutchins shows that the source of our current social, economic, and environmental issues
springs from the misguided way we interact
with our world. The book lays out an accessible
exploration of our current crises, offering solutions and pointing to a way forward.
GILES HUTCHINS, cofounder of BCI: Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, speaks and writes
on the transformation to new business methods
inspired by and in harmony with nature.
ISBN: 9781782501275
$35.00
6¼ x 9¼ inches, 160 pages
T
he author describes the trials and rites
that took place for a chosen few in the
ancient mystery centers, such as prehistoric
caves, the pyramids of Egypt, Newgrange in
Ireland, and the Externsteine in Germany.
The author suggests that modern-day initiation, however, has a substantially different
character. Whereas a “guide” was needed in
ancient times to navigate an inner trial, now life
itself brings the trials we need that can lead to
initiation.
BASTIAAN BAAN worked as a teacher in the
Netherlands before being ordained as a priest of
The Christian Community. He is director of the
priests’ seminary in Spring Valley, NY.
ISBN: 9781782501268
$19.95
Inside the Cosmic Mind
Archetypal Astrology and the New Cosmology
T
PHOEBE WYSS
he author examines astrology in the light
of archetypal cosmology. Beginning with
the roots of astrology, she traces tradition up to
today through Jung’s ideas on the psyche. She
shows that the claims of astrology are compatible with the new cosmological thinking of postmodern physics and chaos theory.
In the second part of the book, Wyss proposes that the mathematical basis of astrology
and the components of astrological charts are
both archetypal and cosmic in scope. She suggests that the twelve astrological archetypes
make up a single “cosmic mind,” whose patterns are imprinted on our individual minds.
PHOEBE WYSS, a full-time astrologer, leads
workshops and teaches. She has published two
books and many articles on astrology.
ISBN: 9781782501107
$29.95
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n writing and producing his mystery plays,
Rudolf Steiner offered his spiritual observations and concepts from a fresh, artistic perspective. The dramas appeared in the context
of the movement of “theatrical realism” during a period when only a handful of dramatists
attempted representations of a spiritual world,
most presented as fantasy. In introducing
spiritual beings to the stage and showing their
connections with human beings, Steiner was
pioneering a drama for the future.
EILEEN HUTCHINS studied at Oxford University
and became a teacher. Quickly disillusioned with
contemporary educational theory and practice,
she discovered the pedagogical ideas of Rudolf
Steiner. Inspired by the Waldorf approach, she
helped found Elmfield School in the UK, in 1934.
She lectured and wrote until her death in 1987
ISBN: 9781855844025
$23.00
Sustainable Society
Making Business, Government, and Money
Work Again
R
The Mysteries
RUDOLF ISLER
udolf Steiner proposed a threefold
social structure, through which Dr. Isler
explores the implications of this approach for
modern societies. He considers ideas from such
unorthodox thinkers as Silvio Gesell and Henry
George, exploring everything from regional currencies to land reform. He finds a surprisingly
practical system with potential for immediate
implementation in small steps, along with
longer-term and newer ways of thinking.
DR. RUDOLF ISLER helps in the administration
of the Waldorf School in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, where he also teaches economics.
ISBN: 9781782501336
$24.95
A Poem for Christmas and Easter
by W. J. v. Goethe (CW 98)
I
RUDOLF STEINER
n this lecture, given on Christmas day,
Rudolf Steiner reflects on the deep mysteries of the events surrounding Christ’s Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection on Earth.
The foundation of his message were the three
magi from the East and Goethe’s poem “The
Mysteries,” told from the perspective of a kind
of archetypal pilgrim of esoteric Christianity
ISBN: 9781621480808
$7.00
Recent Publications
The Art of Speech
Body – Soul – Spirit – Word:
A Practical and Spiritual Guide
The Development of Anthroposophy
since Rudolf Steiner’s Death
Mani and Rudolf Steiner
An Outline and Perspectives for the Future
Manicheaism, Anthroposophy,
and their Meeting in the Future
DAWN LANGMAN
T. H. MEYER
CHRISTINE GRUWEZ
he Art of Speech presents a dynamic path
of practice toward an experience of the
Word as a living, healing, and creative power.
Helping to deliver Western intellectual speech
from what Artaud described as “shrivelled
throats” and “monstrous talking abstractions,” Langman brings to life the spiritual
realities from which a true art of speech arises.
Inspired by Rudolf Steiner and pioneered in
German by Marie Steiner-von Sivers, this art
is illuminated here through the genius of the
English language.
Langman builds a bridge between mainstream research into the nature of speech
and the spiritual cognition that led to Rudolf
Steiner’s insights. Speech and language can no
longer be reduced to an arbitrary collection of
abstract symbols, she tells us.
Compiled and edited by Paul V. O’Leary
Translated by Philip Mees
homas Meyer begins by assessing
Anthroposophy’s evolution since Rudolf
Steiner’s death in 1925 and its future prospects,
offering an overview of the eighty-seven years
of the development of the anthroposophic
movement and the Anthroposophical Society,
headquartered in Dornach, Switzerland.
The Anthroposophical Society went through
a difficult period from 1925 to 1935. The result
was the expulsion from the Society of two members appointed by Rudolf Steiner to its Executive
Board—Ita Wegman and Elizabeth Vreede—as
well as the British and Dutch branches of the
Society and many significant anthroposophists
who opposed the expulsions.
Appendix 1 presents a chronology of signifi cant episodes in Steiner’s life and in the development of Anthroposophy. Appendix 2 contains
the “Memorandum” written by supporters of
Marie Steiner, presenting a list of grievances in
support of the expulsion motions adopted at
the 1935 Annual Meeting. Appendix 3 records
Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz’s address to the 1935
Annual Meeting, counseling against the expulsion measures. Appendix 4 contains the letter
(in English and German) written by the Society’s
Executive Board on November 17, 1935, to Adolf
Hitler.
“The profound thought that lies in this is
that the kingdom of darkness has to be
overcome by the kingdom of light, not by
means of punishment but through mildness; not by resisting evil but by uniting
with it to redeem evil as such. Because a
part of the light enters evil, the evil itself
is overcome.”
—Rudolf Steiner, The Temple Legend
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DAWN LANGMAN trained in speech and acting
in Australia, followed by performing and teaching at secondary and tertiary levels. She trained
with Maisie Jones in the method developed by
Rudolf and Marie Steiner and taught at Emerson
College. She also trained in Michael Chekhov’s
acting technique with Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan
and founded the School of the Living Word in
Australia. She teaches at the Drama Centre in
South Australia.
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T. H. MEYER was born in Switzerland in 1950.
He is the founder and publisher of Perseus
Verlag, Basel, and editor of the monthly journal
Der Europäer. He is the author of several books
including Rudolf Steiner’s Core Mission and Consciousness and Reality. He has written numerous
articles and gives seminars and lectures around
the world.
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or centuries, Mani’s teaching was hidden
behind a distorted picture created by its
adversaries. Manichaean scriptures show that
Manichaeism was a true path that offers insights
that complement and deepen Christianity.
In the twentieth century, Steiner brought
Anthro posophy, the continuation of a stream
of esoteric Christianity that has run through
human history ever since the resurrection of
Christ. Anthroposophy is centered on a new,
deepened idea of Christianity that, as indicated
by Steiner, is so great and all-encompassing
that it can only gradually be understood in its
full depth.
In this book, Christine Gruwez explores the
essence of Mani’s revelation and shows what
Rudolf Steiner communicated about Mani and
his teaching. This generates an image of two
spiritual streams that, each from its own beginning, are moving toward a future when a Christianity of the deed shall become reality.
CHRISTINE GRUWEZ studied philosophy and taught at the Waldorf
school in Antwerp. She has led
seminars and conferences at Emerson College and the Goetheanum
and in Japan.
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Recen t Releases i n T he Collec ted Wor k s o f
RUDOLF STEINER (1861–1925) was born and grew up in Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia). He became a scientifi c, literary, and philosophical scholar, known for his work with Goethe’s scientifi c writings. Formally beginning his spiritual
teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the terms Anthroposophy and Spiritual
Science for his philosophy, spiritual research, and discoveries. The influence of Steiner’s multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, biodynamic
agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the
General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.
Soul Exercises
Awake! For the Future’s Sake
Good and Evil Spirits
Word and Symbol Meditations
Translated by Jann Gates
And their Influence on Humanity
Meditation exercies, 1904–1924 (CW 267)
udolf Steiner made it his task to teach
nothing that he had not experienced himself, and he always encouraged others to make
individual spiritual-meditative research the
basis of their spiritual lives. Therefore he gave
many spiritual exercises to his pupils who asked
for them. This was especially the case during the
period of the Esoteric School (1904–1914), which
closed with the outbreak of World War I, which
made a certain kind of esoteric work impossible.
Steiner, however, continued to give individuals
exercises and meditations in private conversations until 1924, when his health no longer
allowed it. Usually he would write all instructions out by hand. A few were communicated
verbally. Although every exercise originated in
a particular context, he believed that because
the same conditions apply to all who take up
this path of training, in principle the exercises
should be available in “the widest possible
context.”
Beginning with general rules and conditions
(the so-called supplementary exercises), meditations for the days of the week, and morning
and evening exercises, Soul Exercises collects all
of the word and symbol meditation exercises
Steiner gave. This includes nine groups of exercises based on Mabel Collins’ “Light on the Path”
and a multitude of exercises with individually
composed meditative verses.
The book concludes with explanations and
contextual commentary relating to the exercises, including notes on the value of symbolic
ideas on the path of spiritual schooling; the
Rose Cross meditation; the verse “More radiant
than the Sun”; the backward review (Rückshau);
contemplation of one’s own divine ideal; and
alcohol and diet.
Soul Exercises is an essential help to all who
take up the anthroposophic path of inner work.
12 lectures, Dornach, Jan. 5–28, 1923 (CW 220)
he implications of the worldview that
arises from Anthroposophy, the life’s
work of Rudolf Steiner, are both primary and
far-reaching.
More nuanced than any remotely comparable
approach, his work not only suggests the need
for a fundamental alteration of our deeply
ingrained tendency to accept passively the
received wisdom of staid conventionality, it
provides the concrete framework, for anyone
with the will to do so, to wake up to reality in an
entirely new way.
This work and its implications are therefore,
in short, both radical and potentially powerful.
If this were not so, Anthroposophy would have
no real impact and no real enemies. This has
not been the case.
On New Year’s Eve 1922/23, the (First)
Goetheanum, the architectural marvel and
“House of the Word” that was to stand as the
fully realized physical, artistic embodiment
of Anthroposophy on Earth, was destroyed
deliberately by fire. This was an unfathomably
heavy blow to Rudolf Steiner and the entire
anthroposophic movement. Afterward, however, Steiner was adamant that not a single
lecture or event scheduled to take place at the
now-ruined Goetheanum would be canceled
or postponed; he himself carried on with an
even more determined, indeed fiery, resolve.
The course of lectures contained in this book,
begun on January 5, 1923, is living testament
to that resolve. As truly relevant today as
they were in 1923—if anything, more so—this
volume is an exceptionally urgent and heartfelt articulation of what could be considered
Steiner’s core message and plea to modern
humanity: simply put—for the sake of the
future, wake up!
13 lectures, Berlin, Jan.–Jun. 1908 (CW 102)
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“We learn gradually to raise our eyes not
only to material existence; instead we discover spiritual entities and their actions
wherever we look in the universe. . . . We
get to know the deeds of these spirits. We
are alive and active and we are within the
spiritual entities and their activities.”
—Rudolf Steiner
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n this favorite series of lectures Steiner
describes how animals, plants, and minerals
have group souls—with even an inert stone
having a spiritual counterpart in the invisible
world. The planets are connected to great spiritual beings and hierarchies, too, as is the zodiac,
which is also evolving. Steiner describes how
Christ relates to the zodiacal constellations and
to our own higher aspects. Spiritual entities
are associated with the Earth’s evolution and
the previous stages of its existence. Steiner
also elaborates relevant chapters in An Outline
of Esoteric Science, explaining how our task on
Earth is to develop love rather than wisdom.
Rudolf Steiner also speaks of the elemental
beings—gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders—earth, water, air, and fire spirits—
explaining how elemental beings are created by
human activities and the sources of “demons,”
“phantoms,” and “specters.” Spirits are also created in the association of humans and animals,
while other spiritual entities connect us with
the arts. Steiner emphasizes the importance
of developing and appreciating the arts—such
as music, sculpture, architecture, painting, and
poetry—for the sake of humanity’s future
evolution.
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R e c e n t R e l e a s e s i n T h e C o l l e c t e d Wo r k s o f
Unifying Humanity Spiritually
Universal Spirituality
The World of the Senses
Through the Christ Impulse
And Human Physicality—Bridging the Divide:
And the World of the Spirit
13 lectures, various cities, Dec. 1915–Jan. 1916 (CW 165)
The Search for the New Isis and the Divine Sophia
Translated by Johanna Collis
16 lectures, various cities, Nov.–Dec. 1920 (CW 202)
ow do the soul and the spirit live in physical human bodies? Today, the very existence of the metaphysical is widely rejected,
and such questions are rarely posed, let alone
addressed. Here, Rudolf Steiner speaks in
scientific detail about the connection of the
subtle aspects of human nature—our soul and
spirit—to our physical constitution.
At the heart of this course are the well-loved
“Bridge” lectures, now in English for the first
time in their wider context. Steiner discusses
the solid, fluid, air, and warmth bodies and how
they are connected with the ethers, the “I,” and
human blood. He describes how ideals and ideas
impact the various aspects of the human constitution—how morality is a source of “world
creativity,” with moral thinking imbuing life into
substance and will. Moral ideas have a positive
effect, he says, whereas theoretical ones have a
negative impact. In the moral realm, a new natural world comes into being, and thus the moral
order and the natural order are intertwined.
This volume also features Steiner’s classic lecture on the Isis legend and its renewal
today as divine wisdom—Sophia. Other
themes include the mystery of Christ as the
connection between the spiritual and physical
Sun; the permeation of the thinking life with
will (love) and permeation of volition with
thinking (wisdom); the path to freedom and
love and their importance in the universe; the
metamorphosis of head and limbs through
successive lives on Earth; the threefold nature
of the human form (head, thorax, limbs); the
threefold nature of the soul (thinking, feeling,
will); and the threefold nature of the spirit
(waking, dreaming, sleeping).
6 lectures, Hanover, Dec. 1911–Jan. 1912 (CW 134)
ne of Rudolf Steiner’s most fundamental
objectives was to show how the spiritual
world connects to and penetrates the material
world. In doing so, he was a pioneer of a modern
form of Rosicrucianism, countering a traditional
religious concept—that spirit and matter are
polar opposites—as well as contemporary
materialistic science, which denies or ignores
the existence of spirit altogether.
In this concise course of lectures, Rudolf
Steiner shows how the human senses reveal
the mysterious world of the will, which is both a
spiritual and a physical phenomenon. The senses
act as portals that connect our physical and
etheric bodies with what Steiner calls worlds of
“all-pervading will” and “all-pervading wisdom.”
He elaborates this theme with unexpected and
delightful insights into the senses of hearing
and sight and, in particular, how we experience
color.
Steiner suggests that divine spiritual beings
had different intentions for the formation of
physical human beings, but that adversarial
powers caused disruption, leading to a more
materialized constitution. He describes disorders in the connections between the human
physical, etheric, astral, and “I” bodies and the
ill effects of one aspect overpowering the others. He shares insights into human glandular
secretions and why we need to eat and digest,
which is also connected to the intervention of
adversarial beings.
Among the many other themes tackled here,
Rudolf Steiner describes the transformation of
the human senses and organs, giving special
consideration to the function of the larynx,
which will develop in the future a special kind
of reproductive power.
Translated and Introduced by Christian von Arnim
“Fundamentally, all of Spiritual Science ultimately aims to understand human beings
in their essence, in their tasks and endeavors—in their necessary endeavors in the
course of development.” — Rudolf Steiner
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n the midst of World War I, Steiner spoke of
the spiritual unification of all human beings.
Rather than preaching morality, however, he
spoke of observations related to the powerful
universal impulse of Christ—a healing spiritual
force that works through the nations and races
irrespective of creed or race—as a source of
potential unity. Steiner described this impulse
as the central core of human evolution, leading
to a conscious connection among all human
beings.
At the center of these lectures is the appearance of Christ on Earth—knowledge of his
historical incarnation, as well as his present and
future manifestations. Steiner creates an arc
from the pre-Christian mysteries through Gnosticism and the older studies of the early Church
Fathers, to Scholasticism and Neo-Scholasticism.
Once ancient faculties of clairvoyance had faded
in humanity, the question of how to overcome
limitations of human knowledge arose. Steiner
asserts that only a transformation of thinking,
leading to living, conscious inner conceptual life,
can allow real understanding of the relationship between the earthly Jesus and the cosmic
Christ, which leads to direct experience.
Other topics include the births of the “two
Jesus children”; the wisdom of Gnostic teachings; the provenance of the Cross; the mysteries
of the Christmas festival; insights into ancient
Christmas plays, and reflections on individual
consciousness of karma in the future.
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Recent Books
The Language of Plants
The Hidden Geometry of Flowers
A Guide to the Doctrine of Signatures
Living Rhythms, Form, and Number
JULIA GRAVES
KEITH CRITCHLOW
“A powerful and unique book, The Language
of Plants is without doubt the most in-depth
discussion of plant signatures available to
us today. . . . While reading it, I felt a modern
alchemist at work.” —Rosemary Gladstar,
herbalist and author of The Herbalist’s Way
I
t is only in the age
of technology that
human beings have lost
the sense of nature being
alive. Throughout history,
people spoke to nature,
and nature communicated
with them. During the
Middle Ages, reading the “book of nature” was
called the doctrine of signatures, which had
always been an important part of interacting
with nature for traditional healers and herbalists.
The Language of Plants covers all aspects of
the doctrine of signatures in an easily accessible
format, so that everyone—whether nature lovers or healers—can learn to read the language
of plants in connection with healing.
JULIA GRAVES grew up in
Germany in close communion with nature. She trained
in anthroposophic massage
therapy, herbalism, and
medicine from an early age.
Julia has traveled around the
globe—from North America to the Himalayas—
to study the doctrine of signatures and its relevance in the world. She is a practicing herbalist,
a maker of flower essences, and a naturopathic
doctor. Julia organized a naturopathic relief
clinic in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
and presently lives on her farm in a remote area
of France.
ISBN: 9781584200987
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7 x 8¾ inches, 368 pages, in color and b/w
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n this beautiful and original book, renowned
thinker and geometrist
Keith Critchlow focuses on
an aspect of flowers that
has received little attention. The flower teaches
symmetry and geometry
(the “eternal verities,” as Plato called them).
In this sense, Critchlow tells us, we can treat
flowers as sources of remembering—ways of
recalling our own wholeness, as well as awakening our inner power of recognition and consciousness. What is evident in the geometry of
a flower’s face can remind us of the geometry
that underlies all existence.
KEITH CRITCHLOW, a well-known author, lecturer, and founding member of Research Into
Lost Knowledge Organization (RILKO), Kairos,
and Temenos Academy, is Professor Emeritus
and founder of the Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts Programme at the Prince’s School
of Traditional Arts.
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The Marriage of Sense and Thought
Imaginative Participation in Science
STEPHEN EDELGLASS • GEORG MAIER
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HANS GEBERT • JOHN DAVY
oday’s materialistic science realizes its world
only through intense mental
effort that finds no real place
in the world it comprehends.
“Objectivity” comes at a cost.
By systematically imagining a
world in which human beings have no place,
we will eventually create a world in which we
cannot live.
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The Healing Power of Planetary
Metals in Anthroposophic
and Homeopathic Medicine
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HENNING M. SCHRAMM
his study of remedies
offers a living, imaginative
picture of the metallic remedies
of anthroposophic and homeopathic medicine. Fairy-tale imaginations allow us to recognize spiritual efficacies in their lawfulness.
The author interprets fairy-tale imaginations on
three levels: planetary spheres, metal processes,
and human soul qualities, offering a holistic picture of the action of the metals in therapy.
DR. HENNING SCHRAMM works at a cancer
research institute focused on mistletoe research
and understanding the antitumoral activities of
various natural substances. He is the author of
two other books (in German) on medicine.
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Human Hearing
and the Reality of Music
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ARMIN J. HUSEMANN
r. Husemann shows how
hearing is a sensory activity that encompasses far more
than processes in the ear and
brain, and that the whole body
is involved. He also discusses the
relationship between music and
chemistry. Music is “chemistry from the inside.”
And finally, from 1915 to 1918, Rudolf Steiner
developed a physiology of artistic imagination
based on the movement of the cerebrospinal
fluid during respiration.
ARMIN HUSEMANN, MD, of the Eugen-Kolisko
Akademie, Filderstadt, Germany, is the Leader
of the German Anthroposophical Doctors
Assocation. He is author of The Harmony of the
Human Body (Floris Books).
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Recent Books
Why Become a Member of
the School of Spiritual Science?
And the Earth Becomes a Sun
Touched
The Mystery of the Resurrection
SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF
A Painter’s Insights into the Work
of Liane Collot d’Herbois
ergei O. Prokofieff developed
this booklet from talks to
members of the Anthroposophical
Society. They became opportunities for many to question potential
membership of the First Class in a
more conscious way, and for some to take the
decisive step of entering the Michael School.
Illustrated by Rudolf Steiner
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SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF was
born in Moscow in 1954. At an
early age he encountered the
work of Rudolf Steiner and
dedicated himself to the Christian path of esoteric knowledge. He wrote his fi rst book, Rudolf Steiner
and the Founding of the New Mysteries, while
living in Soviet Russia, and it was published in
English in 1994. After the fall of Communism,
he helped establish the Anthroposophical Society in Russia. In 2001, he became a member of
the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society. He is the author of numerous
books on Anthroposophy.
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Why Become a Member of
the Anthroposophical Society?
“It is not the author’s concern
to persuade the reader in an
outward way to join the Anthroposophical Society. He is concerned with the communication
of a few esoteric viewpoints
and possible motives, so that the decision
in this regard can develop in a fully aware
and responsible manner, based on a solid
inner cognitive foundation.” (from the
preface)
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n the transformation of
the physical body through
Christ, the seed for the future
spiritualization of the world
was laid, and through the recreation of the phantom, the
human “I” finds redemption.
The appearance of the young
man at the grave (Mark 14:51–52) is testimony
to the cosmic process in which the Earth will
gradually be transformed into a new sun. The
connection of Christ to the Earth’s aura during
the period of darkness on Golgotha established the basis through which people ever
since then can always find him during their
earthly lives. By Christ going through death,
something meaningful was given to the world,
not only for humanity, but also for the gods,
the hierarchies.
This new publication is a continuation of
Prokofieff’s earlier book, The Mystery of the
Resurrection in the Light of Anthroposophy
(2008). In studying Rudolf Steiner’s work, many
questions arise that warrant further research,
whereas Steiner only suggests a direction
in which the subject may be carried forward.
This can be seen especially in the field of
anthroposophic Christology. When researching this subject, the many questions that arise
can lead to being confronted by conundrums.
However, studying the work again later, such
seemingly impossible questions may suddenly
become clear, resulting in completely new and
surprising perspectives. Some of these new
perspectives will be found in this volume.
Includes eighteen illustrations in color by
Rudolf Steiner.
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Prokofieff approaches the Turning Point of Time
through Steiner’s spiritual research.
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his book is the result the
of the author’s adventure
in painting and work with Liane
Collot d’Herbois (1907–1999), the
well-known artist and therapist
who worked in the tradition of
Steiner’s spiritual research. The
author discusses light and darkness, colors, and
the wise teaching of Liane Collot d’Herbois. She
offers a practical introduction to Liane Collot
d’Herbois and her work, as well as insights that
will inspire artists and art therapists.
MARIE-L AURE VAL ANDRO was born in 1948
and spent her childhood in Bourgogne, Morocco,
Algeria, and Brittany. She travels extensively,
writes, gardens, and studies Anthroposophy.
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In color and b/w
Rudolf Steiner’s Endowment
Centenary Reflections on His Attempt
for a Theosophical Art and Way of Life
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VIRGINIA SEASE
udolf Steiner’s “endowment” of 1911, intended
to create a “Society for a
Theosophical Art and Way of
Life . . . under the protectorate of
Christian Rosenkreutz” did not
develop as planned. The author
reflects on the ramifications of the proposed
initiative—what it might have brought about
and its possible future.
VIRGINIA SEASE is a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical
Society, leader of the Section for the Arts of
Eurythmy, Speech, Drama, and Music in the
School of Spiritual Science, and director of the
English Anthroposophical Studies Program at
the Goetheanum.
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The Collected Works of
Anthroposophy in the Light
of Goethe’s Faust
Writings and Lectures from Mid-1890s to 1916 (CW 272)
RUDOLF STEINER
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his book focuses on Anthroposophy. Its
companion volume (CW 273, forthcoming) contains lectures given between 1916 and
1919 and focuses more on Faust.
Goethe sought a Spiritual Science, and Faust
is one record of his efforts, leading us to see
how Goethe’s timeless drama is filled with
insights that led to Anthroposophy. Whether
it is a question of the spiritual nature of matter, reverence for truth and knowledge, reincarnation, the Mystery of Golgotha, evil, the
elemental world, the challenge of our times,
human destiny and the nature evolution, these
lectures reveal Goethe as the great initiate and
initiator of Spiritual Science.
The Influence of the Dead on Destiny
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Translated by René M. Querido
mplicit in Rudolf Steiner’s view is the fact
that, essentially, the universe consists
of consciousness. Everything else is illusion.
Hence, to understand the evolution of the
cosmos and humanity in any terms other than
consciousness is also an illusion. Whenever we
are dealing with grand cosmic facts, we are
dealing with states of consciousness. Thus, the
only true realties are beings in various states
of consciousness. In this sense, any science—
spiritual or natural—is a science of beings.
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Notes Written from Memory by the Participants
and Meditation Verses by Rudolf Steiner (CW 266/2)
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ith a single observation, Rudolf
Steiner can sometimes outline a radically new reality that changes everything. Here,
he introduces these extraordinary lectures
by proposing that the boundary between the
physical and spiritual worlds “lies right in the
middle of the human being.”
The reader’s understanding of how human
destiny is influenced by those who have died
deepens with each lecture, as Rudolf Steiner
shows how this reality becomes existential—
a matter of personal decision—through the
Archangel Michael’s great action in 1979,
when he assumed responsibility for the guidance of humankind.
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Translated by James H. Hindes
he focus of the lessons is inner work,
praxis. They present us with a holy seriousness and the possibility of intimacy with the
spiritual worlds: we learn to enter ourselves
and to unite with the universal spirit. To do so,
we are taught that two things are needed: first,
we must trust patiently and with inner truthfulness in the process; second, we must learn
to transform the attitudes that threaten our
worthiness—doubt, superstition, and egoism.
As for the ways of overcoming egoism, Rudolf
Steiner turns repeatedly to the deeper meanings of Christ’s teachings and the practice of
the Rosicrucian meditation.
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Esoteric Lessons 1904–1909
From the Esoteric School, vol. 1
The Spiritual Hierarchies
and the Physical World
Zodiac, Planets & Cosmos
ISBN: 9780880106399
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10 lectures, Dusseldorf, April 13-22, 1909 (CW 110)
8 lectures, Dornach, December 2–22, 1917 (CW 179)
(CW 266/1)
Translated by James H. Hindes
oremost here is practice. Meditation—
concentration on a living thought, an
idea of higher origin—begins the process.
Controlling thoughts, we begin to form our
“mental” (etheric) body; ordering memories,
we begin to work on our astral body. These
two tasks are our main goal. “We must make
our life into a school for learning.”
Translated by Marsha Post
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ISBN: 9780880106108
$35.00
(CW 266/3)
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art One contains thirty-nine lessons, as
Anthroposophy freed itself of Theosophy
and focused on deepening the Rosicrucian path.
Part Two, with only six lessons, contains
meditations that indicate a new direction.
Part Three contains the two esoteric lessons
given to the esoteric youth circle. Never before
made public, the meditations and instructions
are powerful and relevant.
The volume closes with the Threefold Mantra
that foreshadowed the approach for the First
Class and was used by those in the Esoteric Section between 1920 and 1923.
ISBN: 9780880106184
$35.00
Book s by Edward Reaugh Smith
EDWARD REAUGH (pronounced “Ray”) Smith is an Illinoisan transplanted to Texas at mid-century. He is a husband, father,
and grandfather with broad interests in life. A successful lawyer and businessman, amateur musician, and athlete, his lifelong search for the deeper meaning of the Bible—which he taught before discovering the writings of Steiner—expresses
itself in his works. For more about this author and his books, please visit his website, “The Bible and Anthroposophy” (www.
bibleandAnthroposophy.com).
The Temple Sleep
of the Rich Young Ruler
How Lazarus Became the Evangelist John
W
David’s Question
I
What Is Man? (Psalm 8:4)—Rudolf Steiner,
Anthroposophy, and the Holy Scriptures
f, ultimately, there is only one
ho wrote the Gospel
reality, then neither religion
of John? The author
nor
science can be fulfilled until
identifies himself as “the disthey
come together on a higher
ciple whom Jesus loved,” and
plane.
Smith shows that there is
Christian tradition tells us that
no
difference
between true scithis disciple was the apostle
ence
and
the
divine
intelligence
John. Rudolf Steiner wrote that
sought
by
true
religion.
The
the author was in fact Lazarus. Smith shows that
model
for
such
a
union
of
science
and religion
research favors Lazarus and that the Nag Hamis
the
Spiritual
Science
developed
by Rudolf
madi and Mar Saba texts corroborate Steiner’s
Steiner.
In
this
union,
what
the
senses
show
reasoning about Lazarus as “the rich young
us
about
the
physical
world—when
keenly
ruler” of Mark’s Gospel.
observed and allowed to speak for itself instead
ISBN: 9780880107327
of being abstracted into theories—become
images of the spiritual world: “As above, so
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below.”
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved
I
Unveiling the Author of John’s Gospel
n a way that is accessible, the
author masterfully supplies us
with a range of collateral materials that is always interesting and
illuminates the larger picture. New
Testament scholars as well as
those concerned in any way with
the future of Christianity ought to sit up and take
note. Anyone seeking to understand the mystery
of Jesus Christ and his “beloved disciple” will find
true food for the mind and heart.
ISBN: 9780880104869
Paperback, Anthroposophic Press
$9.95
The Incredible Births of Jesus
N
o story is so well known, nor perhaps
any so little understood,
as the birth of Jesus. Its mystery
How the Bible Reveals Reincarnation
steals into every heart as days
n this book, Ed Smith presents remarkable
shorten into winter. And cominsights showing that reinmercialism’s thickening veneer
carnation is deeply and powerhas neither quieted the cry of
Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy, and the Holy
fully revealed in the Bible’s most
every soul nor stilled its urge to
Scriptures: Terms & Phrases
fundamental aspects. How
penetrate through it all to an understanding of
and why have these insights
ible commentaries have always reflected
this most magnificent event in all creation.
escaped attention for so long?
the general line of thinkDistilling all his research into a brief narrative
At last, they are uncovered here
ing of their authors. However,
to convey the significance of this amazing event
by a confluence of conventional
the dramatic newness of
is a challenge that Smith rises to with conviction.
Bible study and the epochal spiritual discover- anthroposophic thought means
Completely aware of its immense importance
ies of Rudolf Steiner.
that the usual methods of using
for humanity and conscious of the inner conWith particular emphasis on the organic pro- a Bible commentary may not be
flicts that Rudolf Steiner’s insights may cause a
visions of the Old Testament, Smith shows both appropriate here. An assumption
modern Christian, the author shares his path to
what the assumptions of the Master’s hearers of most Bible commentaries—
understanding. It is a path that offers not only
were and how the New Testament confirms the that one can go directly to portions dealing with
hope to humanity but a way to comprehend the
ancient heritage. Arising from the fullness of given passages of scripture and understand what
bible as the story of human development from
the canon is an exciting story of the long jour- is being said about them—does not fit. Thus,
the far distant past into the far distant future.
ney of humanity and every human soul, each a much of The Burning Bush is devoted to laying out
ISBN: 9780880104487
“beloved sheep” whom the Creator is unwilling a spiritual-scientific foundation.
to lose.
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The Burning Bush
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Work s by Peter Selg
PETER SELG, our most prolific living author, has written dozens of books over the years, inspiring readers
through his knowledge and insights into Anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner. More than fi fteen of his books are
now available in English. Below is a selection of his works ( see pages 2 and 3 for his newest releases ), and more
are currently in the prepublication process. To read more about his books, please visit steinerbooks.org.
The Path of the Soul after Death
The Lord’s Prayer and Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual Resistance
The Community of the Living and the Dead
as Witnessed by Rudolf Steiner in His
Eulogies and Farewell Addresses
A Study of His Insights
into the Archetypal Prayer of Christianity
Ita Wegman, 1933–1935
Translated by Catherine E. Creeger
P
eter Selg shows how Steiner
commemorated the dead,
the words he chose to use, and
his descriptions—sometimes in
great detail—of the inner processes involved. What becomes
clear is the extent to which
his connections to the deceased shaped his
addresses and related to their new stage of existence. Inasmuch as his words were in harmony
with human soul development after death, they
not only recapitulated a biography but also
assisted the deceased individual along the path
after death.
ISBN: 9780880107242
$20.00
Translated by Matthew Barton
“Your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
S
teiner once called the
Lord’s Prayer the “greatest
initiation prayer” and spoke of
it many times, calling it the central prayer of Christian experience. For most of his life as an
esoteric teacher, Steiner prayed
the Lord’s Prayer standing upright. He used
to say it so loudly in his Berlin apartment that
it could be heard outside his door and in the
neighboring room.
This book gathers, for the first time, all of
Steiner’s comments, accounts, and perspectives on the Lord’s Prayer, offering a fuller scope
and depth of his ideas.
ISBN: 9781782500513
$17.95
The Mystery of the Heart
Rudolf Steiner’s
Foundation Stone Meditation
The Sacramental Physiology of the Heart in
Aristotle, Thomas Aqinas, and Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Dana Fleming
I
n this astonishing and inspiring book, Peter Selg focuses
on the evolution of the spiritual
understanding of the heart as
transmitted through Aristotle,
the Gospels, and Hebrew Scriptures to the Middle Ages, when,
in the light of the Mystery of Golgotha and its
sacramental life, it was synthesized and transformed by Thomas Aquinas, after whom, with
the rise of modern science, it was lost until
Goethe began a process of recovery and development that led to its complete renewal and
transformation in Rudolf Steiner.
ISBN: 9780880107518
$30.00
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And the Destruction of the Twentieth Century
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Translated by Pauline Wehrle
udolf Steiner spoke the
Foundation Stone Meditation at the Christmas Conference
of the General Anthroposophical
Society in 1923, giving it to the
Society members for strengthening their forces. Steiner was
bestowing the possibility of dealing resolutely
with the specific tasks that awaited them as
Anthroposophists.
The author suggests that this meditation
represents the concerns of every individual of
our time, allowing us to maintain our humanity
in the face of the challenges and catastrophes
both today and in the future.
ISBN: 9781906999414
Paperback, Temple Lodge Press
$25.00
I
n this book, Dr. Selg focuses
exclusively on Ita Wegman,
her development, and her words,
simply presenting the processes
she went through and, implicitly,
their extraordinary spiritual
nature, without any attempt at
interpretation. This focus arises
from the governing premise that the mysteries
of a great life such as that of Ita Wegman reveal
themselves in the details. Tracing the subtle
steps in her life allow us deeper insight into Ita
Wegman’s being. She herself wrote, “In general
meetings or gatherings, people always understood me poorly because I lacked a smooth way
of expressing myself. But people of goodwill
always understood what I meant.”
ISBN: 9781621480655
$30.00
The Destiny of the Michael Community
Foundation Stone for the Future
I
Translated by Marguerite and Douglas Miller
n two related studies, Peter
Selg tracks the groundbreaking of the fi rst Goetheanum from
September 20, 1913, in the context of the “Michael movement,”
the primary active pulse brought
by Rudolf Steiner in 1924 that
explicitly indicates the anthroposophic movement and its formal society.
The author shows the fundamental importance of this beginning in Dornach. He illuminates the fateful goal of the “School of Spiritual
Science” with Rudolf Steiner’s karma lectures,
not only providentially in the sense that it
involved individualities, but also with regard to
the future progress of human civilization.
ISBN: 9781621480686
$12.00
Work s by Peter Selg
From Gurs to Auschwitz
Crisis in the Anthroposophical Society
The Inner Journey of Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter
And Pathways to the Future
Rudolf Steiner and
the School for Spiritual Science
WITH SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF
The Foundation of the “First Class”
Translated by Willoughby Ann Walshe
Translated by Margot M. Saar
T
his book offers testimony of Maria KrehbielDarmstädter (1892–1943), an
individual rooted in esoteric
Christianity and Spiritual Science who found sources of inner
resistance during one of history’s darkest periods. She was deported to Gurs
camp in the Pyrenees in 1940, and later spent
time in Drancy camp near Paris before being
taken to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.
Her fellow inmates experienced her spirituality and profound religiosity that retained
an inner connection with the Christian sacramental world, even in the most desolate
circumstances.
From Gurs to Auschwitz adds an important
voice to literature on the Holocaust and shines
a light on the nature of spiritual, inner resistance during the dark years of World War II in
Europe.
ISBN: 9781621480426
$30.00
6 x 9 inches, 376 pages, illustrated
The Last Three Years
Ita Wegman in Ascona, 1940–1943
I
Translated by Rory Bradley
ta Wegman’s last three years
were a period of devotion
to Rudolf Steiner and his work,
as well as to esoteric Christianity. This book documents the
final phase of Dr. Wegman’s life,
drawing on her notebooks from
her time in Ascona, as well as her
extensive correspondence and the memories
of those who lived and worked at Casa Andrea
Cristoforo. She remained upstanding, free, and
positive, with an esoteric Christian orientation,
and felt that she was obligated only to her
conscience and to the spiritual world for which
Rudolf Steiner stood and that she served.
ISBN: 9781621480518
$20.00
5½ x 8½ inches, 180 pages, illustrated
M
ore than 100 years
after its founding, the
Anthroposophical Society faces
serious questions—some of an
existential nature—regarding
its purpose and tasks in the
present day. On March 30, 2012,
in the course of the Society’s Annual General
Meeting in Dornach, both Prokofieff and Selg
gave lectures that addressed difficult issues
related to the General Anthroposophical Society and its global headquarters, the Goetheanum in Switzerland. These lectures were met
with a mixture of enthusiastic support and
stern disapproval. They are reproduced here
in full, with supplementary material to help
broaden and deepen their themes, so that
every interested individual can have access to
them.
P
eter Selg provides a context for the “reading” of
the Class Lessons, the School
for Spiritual Science itself, and
Steiner’s intentions. He also
looks to Ita Wegman as Steiner’s
“helper” in the First Class. He
seeks to leave behind the conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s, as Ita Wegman left
them behind her: “For me the matter is settled.
There are so many misunderstandings that I
consider it better to leave things well alone.
We all thought we were doing the right thing.
Looking forward is more important now than
looking back.”
ISBN: 9781621480181
$15.00
ISBN: 9781906999438
$25.00
I Am for Going Ahead
Ita Wegman’s Work for
the Social Ideals of Anthroposophy
The Creative Power
of Anthroposophical Christology
T
WITH SERGEI O. PROKOFIEFF
Translated by Willoughby Ann Walshe
wo leading authorities
and spiritual researchers into the life and work of
Rudolf Steiner show the power
of anthroposophic Christology,
focusing on key turning points in
Rudolf Steiner’s exposition: his
major work, An Outline of Esoteric Science; the
fi rst Goetheanum; the Reappearance of Christ
in the etheric realm and the relationship of this
event to Steiner’s lectures on the Fifth Gospel;
and the Christmas Conference (1923–1924) and
the founding of the New Mysteries.
ISBN: 9780880107334
$25.00
Translated by Margot M. Saar
Meditations translated by Anna Meuss
“Ita Wegman is not only an inspiring genius
of Anthroposophy, but she is also a healing
genius of anthroposophic medicine. Perseverance, courage, and greatness mark her
being.”
—Emanuel Zeylmans van Emmichoven
P
eter Selg recounts the moving story of Ita Wegman
and her relationship with Rudolf
Steiner in the context of the
development of anthroposophic
medicine and the formation
of the Medical Section of the
School for Spiritual Science.
ISBN: 9781621480020
$15.00
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The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner
A Biography
An Illustrated Biography
Rudolf Steiner and
the Founding of the New Mysteries
CHRISTOPH LINDENBERG,
JOHANNES HEMLEBEN
Translation by Jon McAlice
T
his biography should
contribute to a wider
understanding
of
Rudolf
Steiner. Anyone who follows
his life will see that, from a
certain point on, his constant
attempt was to awake, in
numerous ways, an active,
working understanding for Anthroposophy.
Steiner used creative imagination to treat particular themes and tasks, ever anew, and in many
forms. If we observe the variations of those presentations, we see in them the intentions that
guided his whole life. A biography that shows
Steiner’s intentions and efforts in the context
of the times and his life circumstances will not
only relate what happened, but also why. His
work does not, as in many modern biographies,
disappear behind the life story.
This is the most comprehensive biography
of Rudolf Steiner available in English, tracing
his life and development through an in-depth
look at his life and work, which encompassed
numerous areas, including his Goethean
research, philosophy, esoteric work, pedagogy, medicine, sociology, agriculture, architecture, painting, movement arts, and poetry.
This biography, which tracks his divergent
activities, shows how Rudolf Steiner was most
concerned with bringing a new approach to
knowledge through Spiritual Science and
to revitalizing the most important areas of
human culture and society.
CHRISTOPH LINDENBERG (1930–1999) studied history, English philology, philosophy, and
pedagogy in Göttingen and Freiburg and, from
1955 to 1980, taught at various
Waldorf schools. After 1980
he wrote and lectured at the
Department of Waldorf Education in Stuttgart, Germany.
ISBN: 9781621480150
$45.00
125 black and white illustrations
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T
he scientific and spiritual
path of Anthroposophy is
at the core of this work, a philosophy and method that Steiner
developed throughout his life.
This
informative
biography
clearly illumines the numerous
struggles and achievements in his life—childhood; the young, respected Goethean scholar
and philosopher in Weimar; his work in the
Theosophical Society; the establishment of the
Anthroposophical Society and development of
Anthroposophy as a Spiritual Science; the creation of spiritually based movements in art, the
social sciences, education, medicine, agriculture,
religion, and architecture.
ISBN: 9781855840935
Paperback, Sophia Books
$22.00
5½ x 8½ inches, 216 pages, illustrated
The Life and Times of Rudolf Steiner
I
n his introduction, Prokofieff
describes the events in his life
that led to his discovery of the
works of Rudolf Steiner—proscribed then by the Bolshevik
dictatorship—and how he came
to write this book while living in
Soviet Russia.
The author investigates the deepest mysteries of Steiner’s life and individuality and his
establishment of the new mysteries on earth in
the twentieth century. Prokofieff examines the
earthly and suprasensory aspects of the first
Goetheanum, the implications of the Christmas
Conference of 1923/1924, and the Foundation
Stone meditation, which Steiner left as a legacy
to the Anthroposophical Society.
ISBN: 9780904693614
Hardcover, Temple Lodge
$55.00
6¼” x 9¼” inches, 480 pages, Illustrated
The Christmas Conference
Volume 1: People and Places
B
EMIL BOCK
ock lectured widely on
Rudolf Steiner after
World War II. During the
course of his research, he
uncovered many previously
unknown aspects of Steiner’s life. Volume 1 explores
the great range of people who
surrounded and influenced
Steiner. The second volume
explores themes and ideas in
Steiner’s work, as well as his views on karma
and reincarnation and the movement away
from Theosophy to forming the Anthroposophical Society.
ISBN: 9780863156588
$35.00
6¼” x 9¼” inches, 192 pages
16 black and white illustrations
Volume 2: Origin and Growth of His Insight
ISBN: 9780863156847
$35.00
6¼” x 9¼” inches, 240 pages
For the Foundation of the General
Anthroposophical Society, 1923/1924
Writings and Lectures (CW 260)
RUDOLF STEINER
Introduced and concluded by Virginia Sease
A
t Christmas 1923, one year after the
first Goetheanum was destroyed by fire,
Rudolf Steiner established the
General Anthroposophical Society and joined his destiny with it.
“The Foundation Stone” verse, at
the center of the book, is reproduced as Rudolf Steiner gave it
on each day of the conference,
along with his comments on its various rhythms.
Also included are Steiner’s lecture on the
plans for the second Goetheanum, illuminating
the spiritual significance of its architecture, as
well as a talk on the burning of the temple at
Ephesus.
ISBN: 9780880101936
Hardcover, Anthroposophic Press
$29.95
Religious Renewal
Esoteric Christianity
Christ and Sophia
The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric
And the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
Anthroposophic Meditations on the Old Testament,
New Testament, and Apocalypse
Spiritual-Scientific Aspects of the Second Coming
23 lectures, 1911–1912 (CW 130)
RUDOLF STEINER
VALENTIN TOMBERG
n addition to the outer
manifestations of historical
Christianity, another hidden
stream of Christian thought and
development exists, sometimes
called “esoteric” or “Rosicrucian”
Christianity. Showing intimate
knowledge of his subject, Steiner
brings this once-secret, spiritual movement into
the light.
Steiner describes the influence of Christ’s
power throughout history, the function and
effects of karma, the role of the Buddha and
bodhisattvas, and the vital work of Christian
Rosenkreutz, Jeshu ben Pandira, and other key
historical individuals.
I
ISBN: 9781855840836
$30.00
Religion
An Introductory Reader
T
omberg shows how
the central story of
the entire Bible is really a
history of the Christ being.
He describes the cosmic and
earthly preparations for the
Mystery of Golgotha, its
significance and results for
humanity and the world as a whole, and the central role of the Sophia being and her relationship
to the Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Disciples and
Pentecost, and all of humanity. He also imagines
the Grail nature of the Christ’s involvement in
earthly history.
VALENTIN TOMBERG (1900–1973) lectured
and wrote on his understanding of the Bible,
Anthroposophy, and esoteric Christianity. During World War II, he left the Anthroposophical
Society and its internal struggles and converted
to Catholicism.
ISBN: 9780880107358
$40.00
RUDOLF STEINER
Compiled, with an introduction, commentary,
and notes by Andrew Welburn
T
opics covered by Rudolf
Steiner include mysticism
and beyond; the importance of
prayer; the meaning of sin and
grace; rediscovering the Bible;
true communion; rediscovering
the festivals and the life of the
earth; finding one’s destiny; walking with Christ;
the significance of religion in life and death;
Christ’s second coming; universal religion; and
the meaning of love.
This volume provides an excellent introduction to Steiner’s Christology and approach to
religious renewal, which led to the formation
of The Christian Community. It includes an introduction, notes, and commentary by Andrew
Welburn, author of Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy:
And the Crisis of Contemporary Thought (Floris
Books, 2012).
ISBN: 9781855840836
$30.00
The Book of Revelation
And the Work of the Priest
18 Lectures, with conversations, Dornach, Sept. 1924 (CW 346)
R
RUDOLF STEINER
udolf Steiner had already
presented his insights on
the Apocalypse to various audiences, but in 1924 he presented
a completely new perspective.
This time, his comments were
in response to requests from
priests of The Christian Community, the movement for religious renewal, which itself had
taken form on the basis of Steiner’s insights.
ISBN: 9781855840522
$30.00
T
he author points to three
themes of primary importance, all connected directly
with the tasks of the Society
that Rudolf Steiner founded:
the preparation of humankind
for the Second Coming; working
with Christ as the Lord of Karma; and recognizing in Anthroposophy the spiritual language
through which questions can be posed to the
etheric Christ.
Prokofieff also describes other critical tasks,
such as forging a strong relationship with Archangel Michael and recognizing the adversarial
forces trying to falsify Christ’s Second Coming.
ISBN: 9781906999322
$35.00
The Mystery of John the Baptist
and John the Evangelist
at the Turning Point of Time
An Esoteric Study
“We have shown how in the course of
time the being who was present in Elijah appeared again at the most important moments of human evolution on
Earth . . . so that Jesus Christ himself could
give him the initiation he was to receive for
the evolution of humankind. For the being
of Elijah reappeared in Lazarus-John—who
are in truth one and the same figure.”
—Rudolf Steiner
P
rokofieff addresses the
mystery of the two Johns’
incarnation and incorporation,
the initiations of John the Baptist
and John the Evangelist, and the
significance of their work at the
“Turning Point of Time” and its
relevance to today.
ISBN: 9781902636672
$15.00
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Spiritual-Scientific Approach to Social Renewal and the Soul
Psychophonetics
From Normal to Healthy
Common Wealth
Holistic Counseling and Psychotherapy:
Stories and Insights from Practice
Paths to the Liberation of Consciousness
GEORG KÜHLEWIND
For a Free, Equal, Mutual,
and Sustainable Society
ROBIN STEELE, EDITOR
Translated by Michael Lipson
MARTIN LARGE
B
ased on Steiner’s Spiritual
Science and Psychosophy,
the Psychophonetic approach
to psychotherapy works with
the whole human being in body,
soul, and spirit. Founded by
Yehuda Tagar, Psychophonetics
is unique in its emphasis on a combination of
conversation and action phases in counseling
sessions. Through the language of experience
and the language of soul, it uses a unique
gesture-and-sound (nonverbal) approach in
combination with body awareness, movement,
and visualization—a method that goes beyond
national, language, and cultural differences.
ROBIN STEELE, PhD, facilitates personal development courses, acts as a professional supervisor, and maintains a private psychotherapy practice. She is the mother of three grown children
and grandmother of four.
ISBN: 9781584200864
$30.00
5.83 x 8.27 inches, 288 pages, Illustrated
A Psychology of Body, Soul & Spirit
Anthroposophy, Psychosophy, Pneumatosophy
12 Lectures, Oct. 1909; Nov. 1910; Dec. 1911 (CW 115)
RUDOLF STEINER
T
Introduction by Robert Sardello
hese lectures carefully
and precisely lead the
reader through the stages of
preparation, illumination, and
initiation, from cultivating fundamental soul moods of reverence and tranquility to esoteric
self-development. He also provides practical
exercises for inner and outer observation and
moral development. By patiently and persistently following his suggestions, new capacities
of soul and spirit begin to form, revealing the
contours of the higher worlds previously concealed from us.
ISBN: 9780880103978
$24.95
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ethodical self-observation leads to discovering
the key to liberating one’s consciousness from habitual blind
spots and automatisms—realization of the universal primacy
of cognition and the universal
availability of its ground, free attention.
Through attention, practicing the author’s
exercises begins to expand one’s range of
possibilities for understanding and doing. The
exercises are based on the Buddha’s Noble
Eightfold Path and Rudolf Steiner’s cognitive
spiritual path. They lead to a new life in which
superconscious intuitions gradually take the
place of superconscious formations.
T
he author proposes an
alternative: a tripolar
model of society, made up of
government, civil society, and
business, all of which work in
cooperation to build a freer,
more equitable, and sustainable
society. The author describes ways of building
common wealth, such as transforming capitalism for individual initiative and public benefit.
MARTIN LARGE has lectured in management
and organizational behavior. He is chair of
Stroud Common Wealth, a social enterprise and
land trust enabler.
ISBN: 9781903458983
Hardcover, Hawthorn Press
$30.00
ISBN: 9780940262102
$24.95
Broken Vessels
The Spiritual Structure of Human Frailty
11 lectures, Sept. 8–18, 1924, Dornach (CW 318)
RUDOLF STEINER
Foreword by Michael Lipson
“Rudolf Steiner reveals something about the invisible structure of health and illness as
they are seen with the second
sight of spiritual research. . . .
His comments about the
opening to spiritual worlds
that can accompany severe mental retardation or illness foreshadow some of the
most important alternative psychiatry of
our own times. He anticipates elements
in the work of R. D. Laing, the Windhorse
movement of Povall, and also the new
practice of ‘facilitated communication,’
whereby some autistic patients have been
aided in expressing a full and conscious
inner life to which their bizarre outward
behavior gives no clue.” —Michael Lipson
ISBN: 9780880105033
$25.00
Money Can Heal
Evolving Our Consciousness: The Story of RSF
and Its Innovations in Social Finance
O
SIEGFRIED E. FINSER
ur human intentions give
money its qualities and
determine its speed and its
effect on people everywhere.
From object to pure movement,
money is now poised to serve
our highest goals. As we have
nurtured money in its evolution, we must now
take responsibility for directing its great potential in transforming social life, thereby bringing
healing to the world. The author gives RSF
Social Finance as an example of an organization
working to heal our social life.
SIEGFRIED FINSER, a former Waldorf schoolteacher, has managed a division of Xerox and
was Director of Executive Development worldwide for ITT. He frequently lectures on the
nature of money and the healing potential in
monetary transactions.
ISBN: 9780880105736
$25.00
Sophia and the Divine Feminine
The Mystery of Sophia
The Heavenly Sophia
and the Being Anthroposophia
Bearer of the New Culture:
The Rose of the World
ROBERT POWELL & ESTELLE ISAACSON
P
Foreword by Karen Rivers
art 1 is a series of fourteen
visions in which Estelle
Isaacson leads the reader into
a direct and immediate connection with the mystery of Sophia
today. In Part 2, Robert Powell
opens up the cosmic dimension of Sophia and her path of
descent toward humanity and the Earth as the
bearer of a new spiritual culture—the Rose of
the World, a culture of love and wisdom.
ROBERT POWELL, PhD, is an internationally
known lecturer, author, eurythmist, and movement therapist. Visit www.sophiafoundation
.org and www.astrogeographia.org.
ESTELLE ISAACSON, a contemporary mystic
and seer and author of Through the Eyes of Mary
Magdalene, a trilogy presenting her visions as
seen through the eyes of Magdalene.
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Isis Mary Sophia
Her Mission and Ours
RUDOLF STEINER
ISBN: 9781902636795
$30.00
Edited and introduced by Christopher Bamford
T
he feminine divine has
had many names in many
cultures. She is the Shekinah
for Cabalists, and the Sophia
to Gnostics. To Steiner, she is
Anthroposophia (Divine Wisdom), who descended from the
spiritual world and passed through humanity to
become now the goal and archetype of human
wisdom in the cosmos.
Each chapter explores the mystery of the various relationships of Sophia—Sophia and Isis;
Sophia and the Holy Spirit; Christ and Sophia;
Sophia and Mary, the mother of Jesus (and Mary
Magdalene); Sophia and the Gnostic Achamod;
and Sophia and the New Isis.
ISBN: 9780880104944
$24.95
The Sophia Teachings
The Emergence of the Divine Feminine in Our Time
R
The Feminine Element in
the Spiritual Evolution of Humanity
ased on the author’s experience of the suprasensory
being behind Spiritual Science,
Sergei Prokofieff shows that
the being Anthroposophia is
not merely a poetic image or
abstract concept, but an actual
spiritual entity who works in the higher worlds
to benefit earthly evolution and bring to humanity “the new revelation of the heavenly Sophia,
the divine wisdom.”
Prokofieff describes the path that led him
to experience the being Anthroposophia—a
path clearly outlined so that it can be followed
by the reader. In the second part, beginning
with Steiner’s relatively few statements on the
subject, the author considers the position of the
living Anthroposophia in the cosmic hierarchy—
specifically her relationship to Christ, to the
heavenly Sophia, and to the Archangel Michael.
ISBN: 9781584201755
$18.00
Mary and Sophia
ROBERT POWELL
obert Powell uncovers a
secret stream of wisdom
flowing through the heart of
Christianity: the feminine principle known in Greek as “Sophia,”
or the being of Holy Wisdom
herself. This sacred embodiment,
named in the Old Testament as the first living
being made by God, has comforted and guided
seekers of truth in every age and in every human
culture.
Powell surveys the wonders and teachings
associated with this unacknowledged treasure
of Christianity’s mystical past—a stream running from the Greek philosophers and King Solomon through the cosmic visions of Hildegard
von Bingen, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the
relation of Sophia to Mary the mother of Christ.
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MICHAEL DEBUS
ichael Debus discusses
archetypes of the feminine and Sophia’s relationship to
Mary, Jesus and the Holy Spirit,
and most importantly, Sophia’s
significance for modern, seeking human souls. Written from
an anthroposophic perspective, his sources
include the Old and New Testaments, the writings of the early church fathers, as well as those
of the Orthodox Church (especially Vladimir
Solovyov), the Christian mystic Jakob Böhme,
and many others.
ISBN: 1855840944
Paperback, Sophia Books
$15.95
The Most Holy Trinosophia
and the New Revelation of the Divine Feminine
T
ROBERT POWELL
he rising interest in goddess spirituality expresses
our current need to understand
the feminine side of God, the
Sophia (or Divine Wisdom), and
her relationship to the masculine aspects of God. Offering a
new perspective, the author draws on his own
research and on the teaching of Russian philosopher Pavel Florensky, according to whom Sophia
has a relationship to the masculine Trinity as an
independent spiritual being.
Powell discusses Sophia as a Trinity—as
Mother, Daughter, and Holy Soul—and as the
feminine aspect of Divine Godhead. He connects our reawakening to the feminine aspect of
God with many of the changes now taking place
in the world. Also included is an introduction to
the Divine Feminine by Daniel Andreev, author
of The Rose of the World.
ISBN: 9780880104807
$16.95
ISBN: 9781584200482
$20.00
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Found ational Work s and Anthroposophic Practice
Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path
An Outline of Esoteric Science
Start Now!
A Philosophy of Freedom
RUDOLF STEINER
A Book of Soul and Spiritual Exercises
RUDOLF STEINER
RUDOLF STEINER
Introduced by Gertrude Reif Hughes
Translated by Michael Lipson
Written 1910 (CW 13)
n this foundational work of Spiritual Science,
we see how the creation and evolution of
humanity is embedded in the heart of the vast,
invisible web of interacting cosmic beings,
through whom the alchemical processes of cosmic evolution continue to unfold. Included are
descriptions of the various bodies of the human
being, their relationship to sleep and death,
and a detailed, practical guide to methods and
exercises, including the “Rose Cross Meditation,” through which we can attain initiation
knowledge.
Collected and introduced by Christopher Bamford
Written 1894 (CW 4)
his work asserts that free spiritual activity—our ability to think and act independently of physical nature — is the appropriate
path for people today who wish to gain true
knowledge of themselves and the universe. This
is not abstract philosophy; it is a warm, heartoriented guide to the practice and experience of
“living thinking.” Readers will not find abstract
philosophy here, but a step-by-step account of
how a person may come to experience living,
intuitive thinking—“the conscious experience
of a purely spiritual content.”
T
ISBN: 9780880103855
$17.95
How to Know Higher Worlds
A Modern Path of Initiation
editations, instructions for meditation,
exercises, verses for living a spiritual
year, prayers for the dead, and other practices
for both beginning and experienced practitioners—Start Now! is an inspiring guide to the
practical aspects of Anthroposophy. It offers the
most extensive collection available of Steiner’s
spiritual instructions and practices, including
meditation instructions; mantric verses; daily,
weekly, and monthly practices for developing
one’s soul qualities; karmic exercises and meditations for working with the dead, with the angelic
hierarchies, and with our guardian angels.
ISBN: 9780880105262
$20.00
Stairway of Surprise
An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes
in Human Life and in the Cosmos
Six Steps to a Creative Life
RUDOLF STEINER
MICHAEL LIPSON
Translated by Christopher Bamford
Written 1904 (CW 9)
his key work is for anyone seeking a solid
foundation in spiritual reality. Steiner
presents a comprehensive understanding of
human nature—from the physical body and
the soul to our central spirit being. He provides,
too, an extraordinary overview of the laws of
reincarnation and karma and the various ways
we live within the three worlds of body, soul,
and spirit, describing the path of knowledge
through which each of us can begin to understand the marvelously harmonious and complex
worlds of soul and spirit.
ISBN: 9780880103725
$16.95
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Theosophy
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ISBN: 9780880104098
$19.95
RUDOLF STEINER
Written 1904–1905 (CW 10)
teiner begins with the premise that “the
capacities by which we can understand
the higher worlds lie dormant within each one
of us.” He carefully leads the reader from the
cultivation of the fundamental soul attitudes of
reverence and inner tranquility to the development of inner life through the stages of preparation, illumination, and initiation. By patiently
and persistently following his guidelines, new
“organs” of soul and spirit begin to form, which
reveal the contours of the higher worlds thus far
concealed from us.
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ISBN: 9780880103732
$16.95
T
he author re-visions Steiner’s six essential
exercises for our lives today. Drawing
from literature and his psychotherapy practice,
Lipson shows how these exercises stretch from
common events in daily life to the depths of
spiritual experience. The path of meditation
offered here is experiential from start to finish:
not something to think only, but something to
live.
MICHAEL LIPSON, PhD, conducts
a practice in Clinical Psychology and
teaches meditation internationally.
He is a frequent host of the radio callin show Vox Pop on WAMC in Upstate
New York.
ISBN: 9780880105071
$14.95
5½ x 7¼ inches, 128 pages
Anthroposophically Extended Medicine and Healthcare
Physiology and Healing
Illness and Therapy
Practical Home Care Medicine
Treatment, Therapy, and Hygiene—
Spiritual Science and Medicine
Spiritual-Scientific Aspects of Healing
A Natural Approach
9 lectures, Dornach, April 11–18, 1921 (CW 313)
SOPHIA CHRISTINE MURPHY, EDITOR
Lectures & discussions, Dornach, Stuttgart, 1920–1924 (CW 314)
S
Introduction by Dr. Andrew Maendl
peaking to the general public and to small
groups of medical professionals, Steiner
offers fresh insights into human organs and the
efficacy of healing substances such as arsenic,
sulfur, arnica, and essential plant oils. He studies a broad range of specific medical conditions,
offering advice on cancer, hysteria, rheumatism,
gout, skin eruptions, typhoid, diabetes, hemophilia, syphilis, gonorrhea, asthma, glaucoma,
leukemia, smallpox, insomnia, measles, and
much more. Steiner also offers surprisingly nondogmatic advice on vaccination.
S
teiner describes the interplay of the physical and metaphysical human being and how
our four bodies (physical, etheric, astral, and
“I”) interrelate in contrasting ways with the
threefold human organism of head, thorax, and
metabolism and with our capacities for thinking,
feeling, and volition. These concepts unlock a
diagnostic tool for appraising and understanding patients.
Features a Q&A session, a lecture on
eurythmy therapy, and 9 color plates of Steiner’s
blackboard drawings.
Meditative Reflections on Deepening Medicine
through Spiritual Science
13 lectures, Dornach, Jan. 2–Apr. 25, 1924 (CW 316)
Translated and introduced by Christian von Arnim
I
n his third lecture course to physicians,
Steiner speaks on the influence of cosmic
and earthly forces (periphery and center) on the
human being. Understanding these processes
enables physicians to comprehend the actions
of plants and minerals used in anthroposophic
medicines and to prescribe appropriate, specific
remedies.
He also addresses inflammation and excessive growth; measles; children’s food and breast
milk; and much more.
ISBN: 9781855843813
$35.00
T
his book offers a wealth of practical
information, tinctures, teas, and ointments, along with helpful information on
their preparation and uses. These practical
medicines provide a wide assortment of useful methods for dealing with common ailments.
Drawn from the broad experience of parents,
nurses, and physicians, Practical Home Care
Medicine is an easy-to-follow health guide that
will help keep your family healthy and become
a trusted companion in the home.
ISBN: 9781584200505
$15.00
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches, 100 pages
ISBN: 9781855843844
$35.00
ISBN: 9781855843806
$39.00
Understanding Healing
Introduction by Dr. Andrew Maendl
The Menopause
A Time for Change
Extending Practical Medicine
Fundamental Principles Based on the Science
of the Spirit
Written 1924–1925 (CW 27)
R
RUDOLF STEINER & ITA WEGMAN
udolf Steiner worked in a unique collaboration with Dr. Ita Wegman to revitalize
the art of healing through spiritual knowledge
without dismissing conventional medicin. As Ita
Wegman wrote in her preface, “The aim was not
to underestimate scientific medicine in an amateurish way; it was given full recognition. But it
was important to add to existing knowledge the
insights that can come from true perception of
the spirit, enabling us to understand the processes of illness and healing.”
ISBN: 9781855840805
$19.95
I
EVELINE DAUB-AMEND, MD
n this essential guide written from the holistic perspective of anthroposophic medicine,
Dr. Eveline Daub-Amend shows how this turning
point in a woman’s life can become a positive
time of transformation—one of entering a new
phase of life with a fit and healthy body, mind,
and spirit.
As a former gynecologist, Dr. Daub-Amend
offers guidance on many issues: the role of
hormones; changes in the menstrual cycle and
hormonal balance; loss of fertility; contraception; and the affects on sexuality and partnership. She also provides advice on dealing with
hot flashes, sleep disorders, irregular bleeding,
joint pains, skin and hair care, and weight and
figure, as well as specific health problems such
as osteoporosis, and much more.
ISBN: 9781906999001
$25.00
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Spirit and Nature
A
Climate
Energizing Water
Sensitive Chaos
Soul of the Earth
Flowform Technology and the Power of Nature
The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air
DENNIS KLOCEK
JOCHEN SCHWUCHOW & JOHN WILKES
THEODOR SCHWENK
t the center of this book is
the idea that the climate
crisis is one shared by humanity and the Earth as part of
our mutual evolution toward
higher states of consciousness.
Not only is Earth the source of
our body, but the Earth also now depends on
our efforts to shift our consciousness toward
goals higher than self-satisfaction, entertainment, and consumption. Climate is the interface
that displays the results of our efforts to attain
higher consciousness for all of the cosmos to
see and evaluate.
DENNIS KLOCEK is an artist, scientist, teacher,
researcher, gardener, and alchemist and the
director of the Consciousness Studies Program
at Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento, California. Visit his website at www.docweather.com.
ISBN: 9781584200949
$35.00
6 x 9 inches, 304 pages, 293 Color Images
Secrets of the Skeleton
Form in Metamorphosis
L. F. C. MEES, MD
I
n this seminal study of
human bone forms, Dr.
Mees reveals the skeleton
as an articulate work of art.
But who is the artist? Using
a blend of phenomenological observations and artistic
intuition, the author carefully explores the anatomical facts of the human
skeleton, with the beauty of many bones impressively described and illustrated through numerous parallel photographs and illustrations.
L. F. C. MEES, MD (1902–1990), with his wife,
established a clinic for artistic therapy. He wrote
and lectured extensively.
ISBN: 9780880100878
$25.00
7 x 10 inches, 108 pages, 103 illustrations
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ore than forty years
of research has been
done on the positive effects of
rhythms and specific flow on
the capacity of water to support
life. Energizing Water presents
the results of that cutting-edge
research to the general and professional reader
at a time when interest in finding solutions to
water’s huge worldwide problems is growing
rapidly.
JOCHEN SCHWUCHOW is a freelance research
and teaching consultant at Emerson College in
England.
“Long before the advent
and popularity of the
chaos theory, Theodor
Schwenk had understood
the relations between
chaos, the emergence
of form, and the sensitive dependence of initial
conditions that characterize the chaotic
state in nature and in theory. His important
work has never been surpassed.” —Ralph
Abraham, UC Santa Cruz professor of mathematics, author of Chaos, Gaia, Eros
ISBN: 9781855840553
$38.00
72 color and b/w illustrations
JOHN WILKES is a developer of the Flowform
Method and director of the Virbela Rhythm
Research Institute.
IAIN TROUSDELL is director of the Healing
Water Institute in New Zealand.
ISBN:
$29.00
Understanding Water
Developments from the Work of Theodor Schwenk
MICHAEL JACOBI, WOLFRAM SCHWENK
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& ANDREAS WILKENS
ater can carry beneficial or harmful
energies. How can we know
the
difference?
Theodor
Schwenk
developed
the
“drop picture” method, which
photographically displays the
characteristics of water. Today, the Institute for
Flow Sciences continues his work and presents
momentous discoveries about the quality of our
drinking water, groundwater, spring water, and
river water.
The authors, scientists at the Institute, offer
a unique view into the world of water, helping
us better understand one of the most essential
elements of our earthly life.
Nature’s Open Secret
Introductions to Goethe’s Scientific Writings
Written 1883 (CW 1)
RUDOLF STEINER
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Introduction by John Barnes
his collection of Steiner’s
introductions to Goethe’s
works re-visions the meaning of
knowledge and how we attain
it. Goethe had discovered how
thinking could be applied to
organic nature and that this experience requires not just rational
concepts but a whole new way of perceiving.
In an age when science and technology
have been linked to great catastrophes, many
are looking for new ways to interact with
nature. With a fundamental declaration of the
interpenetration of our consciousness and the
world around us, Steiner shows how Goethe’s
approach points the way to a more compassionate and intimate involvement with nature.
ISBN: 9780880107150
$30.00
ISBN: 9780863155406
$25.00
8 ¼ x 9 ½ inches, 112 pages, Lavishly Illustrated
Arts and Literature
Eurythmy Therapy
Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart
Parzival
8 lectures, Dornach & Stuttgart, April 12–18, 1921
and October 28, 1922 (CW 315)
A Natural Approach to Learning
the Art of Drawing
The Quest for the Holy Grail
RUDOLF STEINER
T
his thoroughly revised
edition describes the principles of therapeutic eurythmy
and provides specific exercises.
Steiner reveals the intricacies
of rhythmic interplay between
human physiology and the life
forces in the world around us.
He describes the qualities of language and the
dynamism contained in the individual vowels
and consonants, explaining their relationship to
eurythmy movements and to human experience
in general. Through such movements, or “inner
gymnastics,” individuals can access the healing
etheric forces that surround us everywhere.
This edition includes an appendix with reminiscences by early eurythmists. A previous edition was titled Curative Eurythmy.
ISBN: 9781855842243
$26.00
VAN JAMES
T
he author presents
a
comprehensive
and practical guide to the
art of drawing and to the
process of visual thinking that is part of our full
human intelligence. More
than 500 illustrated exercises and examples—collected and developed
over many years of Waldorf classroom experience—show teachers, parents, and students
how to learn to draw simply and naturally, as a
child would learn to draw.
VAN JAMES is a Hawaiian-based artist and
author, a graduate of the San Francisco Art
Institute, Emerson College in England, and the
Goetheanum Painting School in Switzerland. He
is an art teacher, co-director of an adult education program, and editor of Pacifica Journal. Mr.
James is also the author of Spirit and Art (2002).
ISBN: 9781621480105
$30.00
Art as Seen
in the Light of Mystery Wisdom
8 Lectures, Dornach, Dec. 28, 1914- Jan. 4, 1915 (CW 275)
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RUDOLF STEINER
ithin
the
ancient
mystery cultures, art,
science, and religion formed a
unity that offered direction and
spiritual nourishment to society.
Today, art, science, and religion
can again be united. As Marie
Steiner indicates in her introduction to these lectures, however, these aspects
of culture need rejuvenation through fresh
spiritual understanding and knowledge. Art cannot be renewed through compromise, but only
by returning to the spiritual foundations of life.
“The remedy lies in unlocking the wisdom of the
mysteries and presenting it to humanity in a
form adapted to contemporary needs.”
ISBN: 9781855842366
$30.00
The Spirit of the English Language
A Practical Guide for Poets, Teachers & Students
How Sound Works in English & American Poetry
W
JOHN H. WULSIN, JR.
T
Illustrated by David Newbatt
he story of Parzival, one
of the great classics, is
the colorful tale of knights,
filled with romance, love, and
adventure. David Newbatt’s
illustrations bring a refreshing
and direct interpretation of
Parzival’s quest for the Holy
Grail, while the text gives a brief, clear, and
concise introduction to some of the many characters and events portrayed in this epic tale.
DAVID NEWBATT is an artist and teacher who
lives and works at a Camphill Community for
young adults with special needs in Aberdeen,
Scotland.
ISBN: 9780946206544
Hardcover, Wynstones Press
$60.00
8¼ x 11¾ inches, 224 pages, 112 color images
Fingal’s Cave, the Poems of Ossian,
and Celtic Christianity
PAUL MARSHALL ALLEN & JOAN DERIS ALLEN
F
ingal’s Cave is an extraordinary cathedral-like space, its
sides and roof hexagonal balsatic
columns and its floor the ocean,
whose tides create constant
music.
The authors describe the history and importance of the cave and the poems
of Ossian, showing why they influenced such
diverse figures as Medelssohn, Jefferson, Napoleon, and Turner.
ulsin approaches the
English language not
as a conventional linguist, but
as a poet interested in the spirit
and evolution of our language.
To show “how sound works in
English and American poetry,”
the author traces the many changes, both subtle and radical, in how English has sounded over
the past thirteen centuries, while also showing
how those changes are related to the evolution
of human consciousness in Western, Englishspeaking peoples.
PAUL MARSHALL ALLEN (1913–1998) was an
authority on the life and work of Rudolf Steiner
and a leading pioneer of Rudolf Steiner’s Spiritual Science in North America.
JOAN DERIS ALLEN founded Camphill Architects at Botton Village, Yorkshire, with Gabor
Talló. Her architectural work has taken her to
Ireland, Scotland, and Norway. She lives and
works in Kimberton Hills, Pennsylvania.
JOHN H. WULSIN JR. an M.A. in English and
American Literature from Columbia University.
He teaches English and drama at Green Meadow
Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge, New York.
ISBN: 9780826411440
Hardcover, Continuum
$24.95
7 color images
ISBN: 9781584200635
$35.00
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Star Wisdom
The Astrological Revolution
Astronomy and Spiritual Science
The Clockwise House System
Unveiling the Science of the Stars as a Science
of Reincarnation and Karma
The Astronomical Letters of Elizabeth Vreede
A True Foundation for Sidereal and Tropical Astrology
ELIZABETH VREEDE
JACQUES DORSAN
his collection of the
astronomical writings is
a fascinating compendium of
scientifi c and spiritual knowledge. Dr. Vreede wrote about
both modern astronomy and
classical astrology in the light of
Spiritual Science. These letters
include clear explanations of fundamentals
of astronomy and discussions on the role of
astrology in the modern world. They also
include inspiring presentations of a worldview
that sees the stars, planets, and all physical
phenomena as manifestations of spiritual
beings and spiritual activities.
Edited by Wain Farrants, with Robert Powell
ROBERT POWELL & KEVIN DANN
A
fter reestablishing the
sidereal zodiac as a basis
for astrology that penetrates the
mystery of the stars’ relationship
to human destiny, the reader is
invited to discover the astrological significance of the whole vast
sphere of stars surrounding the Earth. This is
revealed by studying the megastars, the most
luminous stars of our galaxy, illustrating how
megastars show up in an extraordinary way in
Christ’s healing miracles by aligning with the Sun
at the time of those miraculous events.
KEVIN DANN, PhD, has taught history at SUNY
Plattsburgh, the University of Vermont, and Rutgers University. His other books include Lewis
Creek Lost and Found (2001).
ISBN: 9781584200833
$25.00
T
ELIZABETH VREEDE, PhD (1879–1943), was
appointed by Steiner to head the MathematicalAstronomical Section of the School of Spiritual
Science.
ISBN: 9780880105880
$45.00
Christian Hermetic Astrology
Astronomy and Astrology
The Star of the Magi and the Life of Christ
W
ISBN: 9780880104616
$29.95
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acques Dorsan was the
leading pioneer of sidereal
astrology in France. Using more
than eighty sidereal horoscopes,
this book illustrates Dorsan’s
clockwise house system. Most
of the charts are from the
original French edition, with many more added
in this edition. The book embodies one of the
most important astrological discoveries of
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Astrology
normally views the twelve houses in astrology
in a counterclockwise direction, the direction of
the zodiac signs. According to Jacques Dorsan,
however, we should view them in a clockwise
direction.
ISBN: 9781584200956
$30.00
Cosmic Christianity & the Changing
Countenance of Cosmology
An Introduction to Astrosophy
Finding a Relationship to the Cosmos
ROBERT POWELL
ho were the three wise men, and
what was “the Star of the Magi” that
led them to Bethlehem? Using a
dialogue form, Powell explores
these questions and the basis
for the inauguration of “Star
Wisdom.” Set in the Temple of
the Sun, where Hermes, the
Egyptian sage, gathers with his
three pupils, Tat, Asclepius, and King Ammon,
these discourses focus upon the path of Christ,
culminating in the Mystery of Golgotha. With
Rudolf Steiner and Anne Catherine Emmerich
pointing the way, Robert Powell has produced
a book, through independent research and careful study, intended as a contribution to a modern “path of the magi” leading to a Christian
wisdom of the stars.
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A Collection
RUDOLF STEINER
S
Compiled by Margaret Jonas
teiner brings a spiritual perspective to our
study of the heavens. While
criticizing the superficial nature
of popular astrology, Steiner
shows that, as individuals with
the guidance of spiritual beings,
we choose the appropriate time
of birth to match the destiny we
are to live.
This anthology, collated by Margaret Jonas,
features excerpts of Steiner’s work on the
spiritual individualities of the planets; the
determination of human characteristics by the
constellation at birth; the cultural epochs and
the passage of the equinox; and much more.
ISBN: 9781855842236
$26.00
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WILLI SUCHER
he author presents a real foundation
for modern star wisdom.
Topics include the evolution of
cosmology; the origins of the
planetary symbols; our new relationship to the stars as revealed
in human lives and historical
events; and the role of the Archangel Michael in our individual relationship to
the stars.
This is an excellent place to begin one’s study
of the stars and their meaning for both our individual lives and for the world.
WILLI SUCHER (1902–1985) worked closely
with Dr. Elizabeth Vreede and devoted almost
sixty years to developing the new “star wisdom”
called Astrosophy, which he considered most
appropriate for modern humanity.
ISBN: 9780880103695
$16.95
Numerica
A Waldorf Book of Counting
GLORIA KEMP
O
Illustrated by Elsa Murray-Lafrenz
nce upon a time there lived a girl named Sky and a boy named Bilko, who loved to dance
and play tag with the butterflies in the fields. When they were asked how many butterflies
and ants they saw, they could not say . . .
Gloria Kemp and Elsa Murray-Lafrenz have produced a book that helps a child learn to count
and helps early education teachers and parents teach numbers to children in a living and fun way.
Waldorf teachers, especially, will find this book helpful in bringing numbers to their young
students in a way that lives all around them in the natural world.
GLORIA KEMP has been a Waldorf class teacher and was director of teacher training for
Waldorf Teacher Development Association in Ann Arbor. She now teaches in the Applied
Arts program of Threefold Educational Foundation. Gloria has worked with Waldorf
schools for accreditation, consulted with schools, and mentored teachers. She has served
on the boards of The Rudolf Steiner School, Hawthorne Valley Association, Rudolf Steiner
Foundation, AWSNA, and Waldorf Schools Fund.
ELSA MURR AY-L AFRENZ grew up in a family of artists in the heart of San Francisco.
She spent her formative years at San Francisco Waldorf School before going on to the
School of the Arts high school and then to The Rhode Island School of Design, where
she majored in Illustration. Elsa currently lives in San Francisco, where she teaches art
to students of all ages. You can view her work at www.elsaillustration.com.
ISBN: 9781621480082 • Hardcover • SteinerBooks • $17.95 • 11 x 8½ inches • 36 pages
The Blue Forest
LUKE FISCHER
Illustrated by Stephanie Young and Tim Smith
These tales are from a wondrous forest
Where trees are blue and flowers sing.
A small girl finds a glowing chest
Enclosing jewels, pearls, a ring.
A boy who sleeps high in a tree
Is woken by a blue bird’s song,
And a red bird’s melody
Inspires dreams the whole night long.
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his book collects seven highly imaginative bedtime stories—one story for each night of the week, and each story featuring one of the seven colors
of the rainbow. The stories, set in a magical blue forest, tell of mysterious nighttime events and relationships involving humans and animals and
nature. The tales of The Blue Forest have an innovative and artistic character that explores the genre of bedtime stories in a new way. They were conceived
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outlines of the waking world into the elusive realm of dreams; they are more imagistic than narrative, which draws the reader and listener to live more
deeply into the images, rather than being seized by the “daytime” logic of a gripping plot.
LUKE FISCHER is an award-winning writer, scholar, and award-winning poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Paths of Flight
(Black Pepper, 2013), the monograph The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015), as well as poems, translations, and articles in journals, anthologies, and academic volumes. In 2008, he was awarded a PhD in philosophy from the University
of Sydney. He has taught at universities in the US and Germany and lives in Sydney, Australia.
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N e w B o o k s f o r Yo u ng Pe o p l e a n d F a m i l i e s
Waldorf Song Book
My First Scottish Things that Go
The Nowhere Emporium
2nd Edition
KATE MCLELLAND
ROSS MACKENZIE
BRIEN MASTERS
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his much-loved book collects more than
one hundred songs, some well known,
some less well known, gathered over the years
by experienced Waldorf teacher Brien Masters.
The songs are selected for different ages, from
class 3 (age 8) to class 8 (age 14) and grouped
according to festivals and seasons. They include
rounds and four-part songs, as well as musical
notation for recorders and other instruments.
A Waldorf Song Book is a wonderful resource
for Waldorf class teachers or any teachers or
parents wishing to introduce music into their
classroom or home.
BRIEN MASTERS, PhD, was a teacher of music
at the Michael Hall Waldorf School in Sussex,
England. He was editor of the educational journal Child and Man.
C
an you spot a tractor on the croft, a tram
on Edinburgh’s cobbled streets, and a
train in the Highlands? Your wee ones will find
lots of vehicles to spot, name, and talk about—
a boat, a train, a tractor, a car, a tram, and
even a helicopter—in Scotland’s streets and
countryside.
This bright board book is packed with lively
images and simple, clear words to help your children build their vocabulary. The chunky format
and durable pages are perfect for little hands.
(Ages 1–4)
KATE MCLELLAND is an accomplished illustrator and printmaker. She also illustrated the
bestselling picture book There Was a Wee Lassie
Who Swallowed a Midgie.
ISBN: 9781782501831
Board book, Floris Books
$9.95
ISBN: 9781782501701
$24.95
Peg the Little Sheepdog
SANDRA KLAASSEN
T
his touching story of family love and
teaching a new pet is a wonderful companion to Sandra Klaassen’s much-loved Uan
the Little Lamb. Her heartwarming illustrations
abound with gentle fun and the beauty of the
Scottish Hebrides. (Ages 3–6)
SANDRA KLAASSEN was born in 1959 in the
Netherlands and lives in North Uist in the Outer
Hebrides. She has illustrated more than twenty
books for children.
ISBN: 9781782501817
$11.95
W
hen the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel
Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident.
Before long, the “shop from nowhere”—and its
owner, Mr Silver—draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment. However,
when Mr Silver disappears, and a shadow from
the past threatens everything, the Emporium
and all its wonders begin to crumble.
Can Daniel save his home, and his new friends,
before the Nowhere Emporium is destroyed
forever?
ROSS MACKENZIE is the author of fantasy
adventure, Zac and the Dream Pirates, winner
of a Scottish Children’s Book Award in 2012. He
lives where he grew up—in Renfrew, Scotland—
with his wife and daughter, but spends much of
his time in another world.
ISBN: 9781782501824
$9.95
5¼ x 7¾ inches, 280 pages
My First Scottish Colours
S
KATE MCLELLAND
ay hello to green Nessie! Wave a blue saltire!
And pick a beautiful purple thistle!
Introduce your wee ones to their first colors—red, blue, yellow, orange, green, and
purple—with a Scottish twist!
This bright board book is packed with lively
images and simple, clear text. The chunky
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ISBN: 9781782501824
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Devil You Know
B
CATHY MACPHAIL
Est mate or worst enemy? “Baz was the
kind of friend I wanted. Everyone seemed
a bit afraid of him.” Forced to move away from
his dad in Aberdeen and into a rundown Glasgow
council estate, Logan thinks he’s pretty lucky to
have made any friends—let alone Baz and the
boys. Baz might have a bit of reputation and be
a bit mouthy, but he’s the kind of friend who’ll
stick up for you and make life interesting—or
should that be “dangerous”?
CATHY MACPHAIL was born and raised in Greenock, Scotland, where she lives. She is an awardwinning author of challenging teen novels and
spooky thrillers for younger readers.
ISBN: 9781782501794
$9.95
5¼ x 7¾ inches, 240 pages
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SHANNON HONEYBLOOM
SHARIFA OPPENHEIMER
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eaven on Earth balances a theoretical understanding of child development with practical ideas, resources, and
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SHARIFA OPPENHEIMER was the founding teacher of the
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Steiner College. She has written on Waldorf education, helping the parents of her students create supportive home environments.
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his is a book of real beauty, both personal and
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Findus, Food, and Fun
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Seasonal Crafts and Nature Activities
A Holistic Approach to Raising Healthy Children
SVEN NORDQVIST , EVA-LENA LARSSON
4th Edition
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& KENNERT DANIELSSON
his book is for mothers, fathers, grandparents, teachers, child care givers, aunts,
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f you’ve ever wanted a deeper understanding of your
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DR. MICHAELA GLÖCKLER is Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland.
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