Show how Christianity came into being. This book shows that spiritual happenings were factors in the emergence of Christianity. It demonstrates that mysticism may coexist with the clarity of natural sciences and that mysticism is "presentation of spiritual reality", a reality accessible only to knowledge drawn from the sources of spiritual life.
Recollections of Five Pioneers of the New Art Impulse
The purpose of this illustrated volume of first-hand recollections is to increase appreciation in the world for Rudolf Steiner's artistic contributions to modern culture. The authors represented in Conversations about Painting with Rudolf Steiner offer insights into Steiner's intentions as he responded to artists' questions about the deeper, ......
This volume provides unique insight both into the development of the anthroposophic movement and the relationship between Rudolf and Marie Steiner through the letters between them. Their letters cover everything from the esoteric view of evolution and human development to how to deal with problem personalities, as well as many discussions of ......
The movements and 'gestures' of the classical planets during the three years of the incarnation of Christ are closely related to His deeds during that time. The author then shows how these healing deeds continued to work in human evolution. The Changing Countenance of Cosmology, originally given as lectures in England, presents the basis of a new ......
Rudolf Steiner characterizes the relationship between inner and outer realities. In a sense deeper than normally recognized, the mind/body split is the result of a fear to penetrate the mind, the inner human being. This lack of inner courage rebounds on society and civilization producing the terrible conditions modern humanity finds itself ......
If, ultimately, there is only one reality, then neither religion nor science can be fulfilled until they come together on a higher plane. In this second volume of his authoritative, anthroposophical commentary on the Bible, Edward Reaugh Smith shows that there is no difference between true science and the divine intelligence sought by true ......
For two weeks, prior to the opening of the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Rudolf Steiner intensively prepared the individuals he had chosen to become the first Waldorf teachers. At 9:00 a.m. he gave the course now translated as Foundations of Human Experience; at 11:00 a.m., Practical Advice to Teachers; and then, after lunch, from 3:00 p.m. ......
9 lectures, Dornach, February 1923 (CW 221)There is a great difference between the meaning of "know yourself" in the ancient mystery centers and its meaning today. In ancient times, one tried to achieve after death what one can now attain during earthly life. In order to reach higher stages of development after we die, we must become fully human ......