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BUTTERFLIES

Beings of Light

"The butterfly flutters above and over the earth, borne on the air and shimmering with light... We ought really to see them as nothing other than beings of light, joyous in their colours and the play of colours. All the rest is garment and luggage." - Rudolf Steiner

COSMIC AND HUMAN METAMORPHOSIS

“As microcosms we are actually part of, and subject to, the same laws that cosmic beings are, just as the breath we draw is subject to our own human nature.... If our hearts are sensitive to the secrets of cosmic existence and not merely blocks of wood, the words we have been placed into the universe will no longer be an abstract statement. We will be fully alive to this fact. Knowledge and a feeling will spring up within us, the fruits of which will be born in our will impulses, and our whole being will live in unison with the great life, divine cosmic existence.” —Rudolf Steiner

ESOTERIC LESSONS 1910-1912

From the Esoteric School, vol. 2

Notes Written from Memory by the Participants and Meditation Verses by Rudolf Steiner (CW 266/2)

"Many who enter esoteric training are very disappointed and say that they had imagined the exercises to be much more energetic and the effects of the exercises to be far more drastic. Those who tell this to themselves should quickly consider the possibility that they are caught in a great error, and that they should make the greatest efforts to correct this error as soon as possible. It is not the exercises that lack enough energy, but rather the individual. It is not the exercises that are ineffective, but rather the person who is not making them effective. By living an esoteric life, the student should become an entirely different person. One must add something new to the old." - Rudolf Steiner

ESOTERIC LESSONS 1913-1923

From the Esoteric School

Volume 3

Beginning in January 1913, five days after the Anthroposophical Society was founded, this rich volume traces the esoteric work (and lack thereof) in the decade leading up to the reestablishment of the General Anthroposophical Society at the “Christmas Conference” (1923/1924) and the subsequent creation of the First Class, which replaced the Esoteric Section.

THE FIFTH GOSPEL

From the Akashic Record

From his clairvoyant reading of the supersensible Akashic Record - the cosmic memory of all events, actions and thoughts - Rudolf Steiner was able to speak of aspects of the life of Jesus Christ which are not contained in the four biblical Gospels. Such research, in that it is not based on historical records or extant documents, can be spoken of as a 'Fifth Gospel'.

THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS

"The two streams in the human being combine to produce what is commonly known as a person's temperament. Our inner self and our inherited traits co-mingle in it. Temperament is an intermediary between what connects us to an ancestral line and what we bring with us... Temperament strikes a balance between the eternal and the ephemeral..."

FREUD, JUNG AND SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY

5 Lectures

Intro. R. Sardello

“Imagine, just for a moment, how many people in the world practice psychotherapy, how many are patients of one therapy or another, and how many are now involved in the growing numbers of therapeutic groups focused on various addictions. One might think that a great deal of ‘soul work’ goes on here. But, due to the fundamental errors at the very founding of the discipline, it may well be that psychotherapy is oriented toward conquering soul rather than entering into soul wisdom.”

FROM THE COURSE OF MY LIFE

Autobiographical Fragments

Your favourite occupation? Pondering and musing.
Your idea of happiness? Pondering and musing.
Your most extreme aversion? Pedantry and a sense of order.
Of what are you afraid? Punctuality.

GENESIS

Secrets of Creation

How was the world created? Battle lines are currently drawn between two dogmatic camps: the fundamentalist 'Creationists' who believe that creation took place in six days, and the scientific reductionists who expound theories of 'big bangs' and so on. From a direct spiritual perception of the facts, Rudolf Steiner presents a new perspective which transcends these bipolar arguments. He affirms that clairvoyant research accords with the biblical descriptions, but he emphasizes that the text of Genesis has to be interpreted in a special way.

THE INNER NATURE OF MAN

and Our Life Between Death and Rebirth

'When we know how to enter deeply into the realm of the soul, we reach understanding of the harmony that exists between successive lives on earth and the whole of the physical world outside us.' - Rudolf Steiner

KARMIC RELATIONSHIPS

Esoteric Studies

Volume1

During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the underlying laws of reincarnation and karma, and explore in detail the incarnations of certain named historical figures. In Rudolf Steiner's words, the study of karma is 'a matter of penetrating into the most profound mysteries of existence, for within the sphere of karma and the course it takes lie those processes which are the basis of the other phenomena of world-existence?'

MYSTERY KNOWLEDGE AND MYSTERY CENTRES

'By bringing the chosen leaders, prophets or priests to confront the powers of life and death, to discover the deeper needs and potential of the human spirit, the Mysteries had kept humanity in touch with the living foundations of experience. For those who went through their processes, the attainment of wisdom was the culmination of an existential struggle...' - Dr Andrew Welburn

NUTRITION

Food, Health and Spiritual Development

Our instinctive knowledge of which foods are helpful and which are harmful appears increasingly to be fading. We are bombarded with advice, information and prescriptions as to what we should eat and drink, but the issues surrounding nutrition - questions of health, diet, taste, even ecology and sustainability - remain largely unresolved.

ON EPIDEMICS

Spiritual Perspectives

‘If we can bring nothing up out of ourselves except fear of the illnesses which surround us at the seat of an epidemic, and if we go to sleep at night filled with nothing but thoughts of this fear, then we create unconscious replicas, imaginations, which are drenched in fear. And this is an excellent method for nurturing bacteria...’ - Rudolf Steiner

ON FEAR

Spiritual Perspectives

'We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.’ - Rudolf Steiner

ON MEDITATION

Spiritual Perspectives

‘Meditating is a totally free undertaking; it is the epitome of an autonomous deed.’ - Rudolf Steiner

OUR DEAD

Memorial, Funeral, and Cremation Addresses

This book collects Rudolf Steiner’s memorial, funeral, and cremation addresses, as well as a sampling of prayers and meditations for the dead. The context, intimate and sober with grief, means that his intent is quite other than if he had been speaking in a lecture hall. His primary concerns—while based on spiritual-scientific research and, in some cases, the actual living expression of it in real time—are ethical and existential and, at the same time, ceremonial and communal. He stands as speaker before and for the living—relations, friends, and community members—and for the one who has died, even, in a way, for the greater “cloud” of all the dead. With his feet planted firmly on the Earth, Steiner moves seamlessly between the sensory-physical, embodied world and the invisible, suprasensory, discarnate one. Speaking in an intimate, personal manner to both worlds, he unites the living and the dead with words that are both practical and healing.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM

The Basis for a Modern World Conception

Are we free, whether we know it or not? Or is our sense of freedom merely an illusion? Rudolf Steiner tackles this age-old problem in a new way. He shows that by taking account of our own activity of thinking, we can know the reasons for our actions. And if these reasons are taken from our world of ideals, then our actions are free, because we alone determine them.

PRAYERS FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN

This collection of special prayers is a wonderful companion for parents and carers seeking to help children on their journey through childhood. There are verses for every occasion: for the mother to speak as the incarnating soul prepares to be born; for the baby after its birth; for very young and older children; as well as prayers for morning and evening, and graces to be spoken at the table.

SEXUALITY, LOVE AND PARTNERSHIP

From the Perspective of Spiritual Science

'Rudolf Steiner presents the human soul dilemma, split into male and female attributes... but offers a path of development which will eventually lead to overcoming these - what Jung called ‘individuation’, a merging with the true self or true ego of the human being.’ - from the Introduction

SPIRITUAL BEINGS IN THE HEAVENLY BODIES AND IN THE KINGDOM OF NATURE

In the architecture of Rudolf Steiner’s great cosmological temple, this extraordinary course of lectures on spiritual beings forms the central pillar with other important texts such as the fourth chapter of An Outline of Esoteric Science (CW 13); The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World (CW 136); and Inner Experiences of Evolution (CW 132). These works—outlining a revolutionary angelological cosmology—are at the heart of Steiner’s mission to transform our understanding of the world by laying down a new, non-dual, phenomenological path to a contemporary divine-spiritual-physical cosmology that is angelological and theophanic.

NEW AND FORTHCOMING BOOKSOTHER AUTHORS

ADVENTURES IN STEINER EDUCATION

An Introduction to the Waldorf Approach

Brien Masters

An internationally acknowledged authority in Steiner education, Brien Masters has worked for decades as teacher (both State and Waldorf), teacher trainer, consultant, writer and lecturer. In Adventures in Steiner Education he draws on his rich and varied experience to paint a vivid picture of Waldorf education in practice. Spicing the text with many personal stories and anecdotes, he brings to life the theory behind this increasingly popular educational approach, from the Early Years through to the Lower and Upper Schools. This lively book serves not only as an informative and entertaining introduction, but also as a helpful refresher course for those seeking to become fully acquainted with the basic principles of Steiner Education.

AN INTRODUCTION TO STEINER EDUCATION

The Waldorf School

Francis Edmunds

'To educate youth ... is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, to fortify the will and to quicken initiative for life.' So writes Francis Edmunds in this inspiring, authoritative and popular introduction to Steiner (Waldorf) Education.

ANTHROPOSOPHY A-Z

A glossary of terms relating to Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual philosophy

Henk van Oort

Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual philosophy is the inspiration for many successful initiatives in the world today, from the international Steiner Waldorf school movement to biodynamic agriculture and its increasingly popular produce. Steiner developed his philosophy in dozens of books and many thousands of lectures. His teaching contains dozens of new concepts and ideas, and as a result he had often to create his own vocabulary. In this practical volume - a companion to his Anthroposophy, A Concise Introduction - Henk van Oort gives concise definitions of many terms and concepts in Steiner’s worldview, from the most commonplace to the more obscure.

CHRIST AND THE DISCIPLES

The Destiny of an Inner Community

Peter Selg

Rudolf Steiner has said that we must learn to live with the etheric Christ in the Earth’s aura in the same way that the disciples once lived with Christ Jesus on the physical plane. To do this, it is essential to understand what took place between Christ and his disciples. In numerous lecture cycles, Rudolf Steiner spoke about the inner community of the disciples, opening up perspectives that help us see how the disciples accompanied Christ Jesus during the three years of his earthly life and after the Resurrection. Especially in his lectures on the Fifth Gospel, Steiner shed light on the community of the disciples from the viewpoint of the processes of human consciousness that were intimately involved in the events at the beginning of the new era and were inscribed in the chronicle of evolution, the akashic record.

CREATIVE POWER OF ANTHROPOSOPHICAL CHRISTOLOGY

An Outline of Occult Science • The First Goetheanum • The Fifth Gospel • The Christmas Conference

Sergei O. Prokofieff

Peter Selg

Sergei O. Prokofieff and Peter Selg, two leading authorities and spiritual researchers into the life and work of Rudolf Steiner, gave a series of conferences from 2009 to 2010 on the Christological foundations of Anthroposophy. Their aim was to show the power of anthroposophic Christology. Thus, they focused on key turning points in Steiner’s exposition—his major work, An Outline of Esoteric Science; the first Goetheanum; the reappearance of Christ in the etheric realm and its relationship to Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the Fifth Gospel; and the Christmas Conference of 1923/1924 and the founding of the New Mysteries.

THE CULTURE OF SELFLESSNESS

Rudolf Steiner, the Fifth Gospel, and the Time of Extremes

Peter Selg

"We must become selfless—that is the task of culture today for the future. Human beings must become more and more selfless. Therein lies the future of right moral life actions, the future of all acts of love that can occur through earthly humanity." —Rudolf Steiner (Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha)

HOLY VISION, SACRED STORIES

Realities from the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Charles S. Tidball

On the one hand, New Testament scholarship has been preoccupied with a search for the “historical Jesus.” On the other, twists and turns occurring after the first century brought about “an enforced orthodoxy” that views modern visionaries as heretics. The inconclusive nature of theology pits those who are reluctant to support the miraculous against the witness of the original oral tradition. One result of the confusion over the New Testament record is that contemporary fiction such as The Da Vinci Code has emerged to fill the void. It has been so popular because there is hunger for a better understanding of those events. The author of this book aims to fill the gap.

I AM DIFFERENT FROM YOU

How Children Experience Themselves and the World in the Middle of Childhood

Peter Selg

In many of his lectures to teachers on education, Rudolf Steiner called attention to a significant but often overlooked change in the way children experience themselves and the world that occurs in the middle of childhood, in the ninth or tenth year. “There comes a time when children show, not in what they say but in their whole behaviour, that they are struggling with a question or a number of questions that indicates a crisis in their soul life. It is a very subtle experience for the child that requires an equally subtle response.”

I AM FOR GOING AHEAD

Ita Wegman's Work for the Social Ideals of Anthroposophy

Peter Selg

"Ita Wegman is not only an inspiring genius of Anthroposophy, but she is also a healing genius of anthroposophic medicine. Perseverance, courage, greatness mark her being." —Emanuel Zeylmans van Emmichoven

ITA WEGMAN AND ANTHROPOSOPHY

A Conversation with Emanuel Zeylmans

Wolfgang Weirauch

“I believe a time will come when greater distance makes the conflicts in the Anthroposophical Society—which at first sight seem so ugly—appear as part of the struggle for Anthroposophy in the twentieth century. When this future dawns, it will be important to be able to reach back to an historical documentation of what happened.” —Emanuel Zeylmans

MORE RADIANT THAN THE SUN

A Handbook for Working with Steiner's Meditations and Exercises

Gertrude Reif Hughes

"In this invaluable handbook, Gertrude Reif Hughes, in addition to providing us a comprehensive introduction, has given what has been so long needed in connection with Rudolf Steiner's verses and exercises - the benefit of a deep and evolving personal experience in working with them." - Frederick Dennehy, attorney

THE MYSTERY OF THE HEART

Studies on the Sacramental Physiology of the Heart

Aristotle | Thomas Aquinas | Rudolf Steiner

Peter Selg

"Every moral deed and every physical action in human life is connected in the human heart. Only when we truly learn to understand the configuration of he human heart will we find the true fusion of these two parallel and independent phenomena: moral events and physical events." —Rudolf Steiner

PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY

Creative Polarities in Space and Time

Olive Whicher

Olive Whicher's groundbreaking book presents an accessible - non-mathematician's - approach to projective geometry. Profusely illustrated, and written with fire and intuitive genius, this work will be of interest to anyone wishing to cultivate the power of inner visualization in a realm of structural beauty.

RUDOLF STEINER A BIOGRAPHY

Limited-edition hardcover!

Christoph Lindenberg

This biography should contribute to a greater understanding of Rudolf Steiner. Whoever follows his life will get the impression 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.

RUDOLF STEINER AND CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

Peter Selg

“Only in our time has it become possible once again to unlock the sources of Rosicrucian wisdom and allow them to flow into the whole of culture… Christian Rosenkreutz has always lived among us and he is with us today too as the guide of spiritual life....

RUDOLF STEINER AND THE SCHOOL FOR SPIRITUAL SCIENCE

The Foundation of the "First Class"

Peter Selg

"Following Rudolf Steiner's death, the mysteries cannot be revealed further at the present time, but we must continue to cultivate a living, not only rational but also ritual, continuity of the mystery contents he has given, passing them to people who did not know Rudolf Steiner and yet seek to connect with him esoterically and not just intellectually." —Ludwig Count Polzer-Hoditz

THE FUNDAMENTAL SOCIAL LAW

Rudolf Steiner on the Work of the Individual and the Spirit of Community

Peter Selg

The healthy social life is found When in the mirror of each human being The whole community finds its reflection And when in the community The virtue of each one is living.

THE LANGUAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SOUL

A Guide to Rudolf Steiner’s “Leading Thoughts”

Carl Unger

“After Rudolf Steiner had left us in the body, the gifts of the spirit that were offered by him in such overflowing measure could not continue. It must now happen that a community of human beings takes over the results of his spiritual research, takes them in such a way that they remain alive in the community. People must come together in anthroposophic work, united in such a way that Anthroposophy comes into its own.” —Carl Unger (lecture in Stuttgart, Oct. 29, 1928)

THE TEMPLE SLEEP OF THE RICH YOUNG RULER

How Lazarus Became the Evangelist John

Edward Reaugh Smith

“A bold undertaking! Smith aims at a broad synthesis of the teachings of the early twentieth-century esoteric philosopher Rudolf Steiner with the ancient mysteries, certain religio-philosophical texts in the Nag Hammadi Library, pre-Constantinian esoteric Christianity, and the Secret Gospel of Mark.... The brief excerpts from the Secret Gospel, quoted in the Letter of Clement to Theodore, fit well the esoteric fabric out of which Christianity emerged in its earliest days. In his excellent legal analysis of the failed “proofs” offered by Stephen Carlson and Peter Jeffery that the Secret Gospel is a modern forgery, Smith reveals his thorough grasp of the literature and a keen sense of what should qualify as proof. A provocative study!” —Charles W. Hedrick, Missouri State University

THREE GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES

Paintings by Gerard Wagner

Afterword by Peter Stebbing

The Brothers Grimm

The illustrations in Three Grimms’ Fairy Tales by the German painter Gerard Wagner for “Briar Rose”; “Jorinde and Joringle”; and “The Star-Taler” represent a unique artistic approach to children’s book illustration. Through Wagner’s life-long investigation into how form can arise from objective color experience, the images are attuned individually in a deep way to the mood of each fairy tale and to children’s essential moral nature and creative fantasy. The book is a finely illustrated children’s book as well as a book of fine art.