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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  In this important series of lectures, Rudolf Steiner lays out for Society members right and wrong ways of establishing connections with those who have died. Rather than following the materialistic desire to draw those who have died back into the physical realm, Steiner presents a means toward true spiritual union through strengthening one's forces of consciousness. He also showed how help is provided from the sphere of Christ's activity as a balance for our time.Steiner stated: \"One who sees into the deeper meaning intended by our spiritual science recognizes in it not merely theoretical knowledge about all sorts of human problems, the members of the human being, reincarnation and karma, but one looks in it for an entirely different language, a way to express oneself in regard to spiritual matters. The fact that we learn through spiritual science to speak inwardly in our thoughts with the spiritual world is far more important than acquiring theoretical ideas. The Christ is with us even until the end of the world. It is his language that we must learn.\"  This book is a translation (translator unknown) of 7 lectures from Bausteine zu einer Erkenntnis des Mysteriums von Golgatha. Kosmische und menschliche Metamorphose (\"Building Blocks for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha: Cosmic and Human Metamorphoses\") 17 lectures, GA 175.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164234292,"sku":"9781621480006","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480006.jpg?v=1782632298"},{"product_id":"9781621480099","title":"Notes on the Gospel of John","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1949, Paul Marshall Allen embarked, along with Rudolf Frieling, on an intense, in-depth study of the Gospel of John. Their work involved meditative contemplation, verse-by-verse, and working closely with the original Greek Gospel. This book comprises the notes that Paul wrote down from that study. Intended to be read meditatively, this book provides a treasure of insights that will prove an invaluable as a study guide for those wishing to deepen their work on this Gospel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164267060,"sku":"9781621480099","price":64.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480099.jpg?v=1782632298"},{"product_id":"9781621480143","title":"Jonathan's Journey 2\/e","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's Christmas Eve and it has been snowing all day. Jonathan is in bed with a cold. Just as he is closing his sleepy eyes, a little dwarf appears and invites him to the Inside Land, where he meets Father Christmas, who has a message for Jonathan, and also makes a promise to Squirrel, Rabbit, Bird and Mouse, who cannot find any food in the snowy woods. On Christmas morning Jonathan feels better and can't wait to play with his new sled. But is there something he's forgetting? Jonathan remembers the hungry animals out in the snow and fills his new sled with nuts, seeds, carrots, and all sorts of good things for them to eat. Everyone will have a Merry Christmas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164299828,"sku":"9781621480143","price":41.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480143.jpg?v=1782632299"},{"product_id":"9781621480129","title":"Ita Wegman and Anthroposophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --Emmanuel ZeylmansFollowing the reestablishment of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Foundation Meeting in 1923, Ita Wegman--Rudolf Steiner's closest collaborator at the end of his life--became the object of intense opposition, systematic exclusion, and misunderstanding. This ostracism and misinformation continued even after her death, kept alive by prejudice and untruths that created an atmosphere that prevented a clear and unbiased view of her role in Anthroposophy. Because no real biography existed, even those who were open-minded and impartial found it difficult to make an informed assessment of the situation. This lack has been filled by Emanuel Zeylmans's three-volume work, Who Was Ita Wegman? In writing it, he had access to 100 undated notebooks, 2,000 manuscript pages, and 6,000 letters. Sifting these was an enormous project. It took Zeylmans twelve years to reach the esoteric heart of the \"Wegman question,\" and what he found was extraordinary and extremely important to anyone interested in Anthroposophy and the divisive karma of its history. Ita Wegman and Anthroposophy consists of interviews with Emmanuel Zeylmans by Wolfgang Weirauch of the German journal, Flensburger Heft. Speaking candidly about the deepest aspects of his revelatory findings, Zeylmans describes how his passionate need to understand what happened to Ita Wegman and Anthroposophy unfolded. He talks of meetings with those who knew her intimately. He tells of her collaboration with Rudolf Steiner and her fraught relations with Maria Steiner and Edith Maryon, both of whom also claimed a special relationship with Rudolf Steiner. Zeylmans also describes the Christmas Foundation Meeting and the conflicts that followed Steiner's death, leading to Ita Wegman's expulsion from the Executive Council of the Anthroposophical Society. Those interested in understanding the karma of the Anthroposophical Society will find this book illuminating. It would be a mistake, however, to consider it a book about the only past; it is also a book about the future of Anthroposophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164332596,"sku":"9781621480129","price":46.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480129.jpg?v=1782632297"},{"product_id":"9781621480020","title":"I am for Going Ahead","description":"\u003cp\u003eIta 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 With great empathy, delicacy, and directness, Peter Selg recounts, in three lectures, 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. Steiner had suffered patiently until the right person--Ita Wegman--arrived to guide spiritual science's healing mission into the medical field. In the fall of 1920, Ita Wegman founded a medical clinic in Arlesheim. From then on, she and Steiner worked together, both medically and spiritually, gradually unveiling a karmic working relationship unique in Steiner's life. Thus the stage is set. \"By taking in the war-traumatized children we will not lose sight of our task in curative education, on the contrary, it is the actual realization of this task, and if one cannot see that, one is not going forward with the big strides of time. I assure you that I will not fall into small steps; I want to stay with the big strides.\"--Ita Wegman, (August 20, 1942)The second lecture focuses on anthroposophic curative, or therapeutic, education: \"the social center, the heart even, of Ita Wegman's 'Medical Section'; To make a commitment to children with severe obstacles in their incarnation, out of spiritual insight into the human being and the wider karmic context, and to make this commitment as a group of people working out of a Christian-religious impulse\" this was for Ita Wegman the true anthroposophic medicine.\" Dr. Selg then describes Dr. Wegman's heroic efforts to create a true community of physicians working anthroposophically out of Steiner's indications and in the spirit of Christ; how she looked after her colleagues, always seeking to wake them up \"to the destiny of their own being.\" She also tried to resist all that was happening in Nazi Germany, never forgetting Steiner's warning: \"In the future, the Anthroposophical Society will be faced with the crucial decision of whether responsibilities will be met or not.\" This is the heart of this wonderful book--the inner struggle to make love responsible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164430900,"sku":"9781621480020","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480020.jpg?v=1782632298"},{"product_id":"9781621480105","title":"Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing with Hand, Head, and Heart is 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 provides samples of inspiring blackboard drawings and main lesson book pages for teachers and students and includes an informative appendix on therapeutic drawing, a bibliography of resources, and an index. Includes 576 colour and black and white illustrations. An invaluable resource for teachers, parents and visual artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164594740,"sku":"9781621480105","price":69.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480105.jpg?v=1782632300"},{"product_id":"9781621480259","title":"Fairy Worlds and Workers 2\/e","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fairy tales and sagas are comparable to a good angel, granted human beings as a companion from birth on their life's wanderings, to be a trustworthy comrade throughout - offering comradeship, and making life inwardly into a truly ensouled fairy tale!\" - Rudolf Steiner (quoting Karl Julius Schroer)  \"There is a big difference in whether or not one has a child grow up with fairy tales. The soul-stirring nature of fairy-tale pictures becomes evident only later on. If fairy tales have not been given, this shows itself in later years as weariness of life and boredom. Indeed, it even comes to expression physically; fairy tales can help counter illnesses. What is absorbed little by little by means of fairy tales emerges subsequently as joy in life, in the meaning of life - it comes to light in the ability to cope with life, even into old age. Children must experience the power inherent in fairy tales while young, when they can still do so. Whoever is incapable of living with ideas that have no reality for the physical plane 'dies' for the spiritual world.\" - Rudolf Steiner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164627508,"sku":"9781621480259","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480259.jpg?v=1782632300"},{"product_id":"9781621480037","title":"The Knottles","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo children are going to sleep for the first time in their new home at the edge of a pine forest. As the full moon shines on the beautiful new pinewood floors, walls, and ceiling, they have the most surprising dream...Out of a large pinewood knot climb seven little Knottles, who are the guardians of the pine trees. The Knottles sing and dance with the children...Remember the pine trees, how they grow, In the summer, in the snow, Remember the pine trees, root in stone, Twig and limb, seed and cone, And a golden heart in every tree, Giving people wood for free. When the children wake up, they are inspired to plant pine tree seedlings with their parents, and they promise to take good care of all their trees  for evermore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164693044,"sku":"9781621480037","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480037.jpg?v=1782632299"},{"product_id":"9781621480303","title":"Spiritual Life Now and After Death 2\/e","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner delivered these lectures near the end of 1915 and the beginning of World War I, when the issue of death and destiny weighed on the minds of many in Europe. He describes the process of crossing the threshold of death to life in the spiritual world; the soul's experience immediately after death and the process of forming one's destiny, or karma, while we remain on Earth and later in the spirit world. Steiner also discusses the importance of our connection with those who have died and how love and reverence to the memory of the dead must be united with our love for the physical world, and how we can strengthen ourselves through meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164725812,"sku":"9781621480303","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480303.jpg?v=1782632301"},{"product_id":"9781621480181","title":"Rudolf Steiner and the School for Spiritual Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing 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 Since Rudolf Steiner's death in 1925, little has been written about the \"First Class\" of the School for Spiritual Science in Dornach. The Class continues as an esoteric institution in the hearts of its disciples and in the mantras and meditations. This meditative work is hidden from view, yet, behind the scenes, it lives on in the inner striving for development of soul and spirit that is part of any mystery school. Rudolf Steiner himself guarded the content of the Class Lessons strictly, only intimating to members of the General Society that his esoteric school existed and how it worked. In this book, Peter Selg provides a context for the \"reading\" of the Class Lessons, the School for Spiritual Science itself, as well as for Rudolf Steiner's intentions for such an esoteric undertaking. The School for Spiritual Science was the work of an initiate, and through the esoteric collaboration of Rudolf Steiner and those who worked with him a Christian mystery center began to unfold. But Steiner's aim has not yet been achieved. Intense work is still needed for its realization--unwavering efforts with awareness of the foundations Rudolf Steiner laid down and consciousness of the mystery dimension of the endeavor. As an aspect of that wider mystery dimension, Peter Selg also looks back to Ita Wegman as Rudolf Steiner's \"helper\" in the First Class. He seeks to leave behind the conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s as Ita Wegman herself left them behind her. As Ita Wegman said, \"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.\" In its exploration of the First Class, Rudolf Steiner and the School for Spiritual Science provides a much-needed perspective on what ought to be at the very heart of Anthroposophy and the movement for Spiritual Science that Rudolf Steiner brought into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164758580,"sku":"9781621480181","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480181.jpg?v=1782632302"},{"product_id":"9781621480341","title":"Into the Heart's Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Barnes--the author of A Life for the Spirit--brings us a comprehensive view of the development of the anthroposophic movement in North America. During its initial phase in the early 1900s, Americans began to return from Europe with word of an individual who spoke about the spiritual world from direct experience. The first spritual-scientific initiatives began in New York in the 1930s and spread across the prairies to the West Coast and beyond--to Canada, Mexico, and Hawaii--taking root in the hearts and minds of the \"new world.\" This is the story of those adventurous spirits who took responsibility for bringing the work of Rudolf Steiner to North America--in the form of study groups, lecture tours, a library, publishing ventures, artistic renewal, anthroposophically extended medicine, biodynamic agriculture, threefold social initiatives, Waldorf schools, The Christian Community, Camphill villages, and more.In broad sweeps and intimate details, Into the Heart's Land covers--in three, thirty-three-year phases--the movement's first impulse and building the foundations (1900-1933); making roots (1933-1967); and new growth and bearing fruit (1967-2000).The last part of the book takes up enduring themes at the heart of the anthroposophic movement, current initiatives, and, finally, includes a section on looking toward the future of Anthroposophy in North America. Throughout this volume, these questions always hover: How has Anthroposophy fared in the New World? To what extent has it recognized the reality of the spirit and the essential role of a truly free and independent spiritual and cultural life?From the IntroductionThe history of Anthroposophy in America can be truly understood only in the context of recent history. And, within this wider context, what we have come to know as World War I (1914-1918) played a decisive role. That conflict set the stage for the twentieth century, and it remains with us today. As we shall learn in chapter four, it was during these years that Rudolf Steiner achieved final clarity in his years of research into the threefold nature of the human being. It was also during this time that the Goetheanum was rising in the northwest corner of Switzerland, within sound of the French and German guns dueling along the Rhine. This building, intended to be a home for Anthroposophy and as a center for the renewal of modern culture, was burned to the ground during the night of New Year's Eve at the end of 1922. The war had ended in November 1918. One year later, the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, Germany, opened its doors and soon grew to be the largest independent private school in Germany, only to be closed by the Hitler government in 1938.In December 1919, for the first time after the war, two parties of English friends found their way to Dornach, and Rudolf Steiner was moved to give lectures for both groups: four lectures in December 1919, and three in February 1920.* In both series Steiner spoke with great earnestness about the responsibilities that then devolved on the Anglo-American peoples, the victors in the war.The theme that resounded through all seven lectures was the urgent need to recognize that, unless the three spheres of society were clearly distinguished, one could not hope to heal the social illness that led to the war. And, before this could happen, society would first have to recognize the need to create a sphere of cultural spiritual freedom, totally independent of political and economic control. Only through the renewal of spiritual life could one hope for real progress in human affairs. Rudolf Steiner warmly welcomed the English visitors and minced no words in describing the responsibility that now rested on the shoulders of the Anglo-American world. In the third lecture, for example, on December 14, he said: \"Well, the actual victor is the being of the Anglo-American peoples, and, as a result of forces that I have often described here, this being of the Anglo-American peoples is destined to dominate the world in the future...The transfer of external dominion will take place with the relentlessness of a force of nature...Already inscribed in the book of human destiny is the question: Will there be a sufficient number among those impelled to assume external dominion, as though by a force from outside, who feel a responsibility for inserting into this entirely external, materialistic dominion--for that is what it will be, make no mistake--an impetus for spiritual life?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164889652,"sku":"9781621480341","price":92.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480341.jpg?v=1782632302"},{"product_id":"9781621480280","title":"The Social Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1919, shortly after World War I, the structure of society and the economy, both in Germany and globally, became a primary concern of Rudolf Steiner. In addition to writing The Threefold Social Order, in which he presented his ideas for social renewal, Steiner also gave lecture courses that year, including The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness (CW 189); Impulses of the Past and Future in Social Events (CW 190); Spiritual-Scientific Treatment of Social and Pedagogical Questions (CW 192); The Esoteric Aspect of the Social Question (CW 193); The Social Question (CW 328); as well as others and the lectures in this book, The Social Future. That year, Rudolf Steiner also published his \"Appeal to the German People and the Cultural World,\" which began: \"Resting on secure foundations with the assurance of enduring for untold ages\" -  this is what the German people believed of their empire, founded half a century ago. Today they can see only its ruins. Deep searching of the soul must follow from such an experience.\" In The Social Future, Rudolf Steiner presents what he saw as the underlying social problems of his time and offers his approach to solutions for a more successful and equitable social future. What he has to say is remarkably suited to our time, almost a century later. His predictions have come to pass, yet few of his recommendations have been implemented on any large scale.  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As the portrait of a highly ethical and sorely tried woman amid catastrophic conditions, it describes her existential efforts to summon powers of concentration, meditation and dedication to others, showing how these continued to inform her outlook and actions to the very end.  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990164955188,"sku":"9781621480426","price":69.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480426.jpg?v=1782632302"},{"product_id":"9781621480358","title":"More Radiant Than the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner (1861-1924) spoke many times about the need for more than an intellectual understanding of what he taught as the spiritual path of Anthroposophy, or Spiritual Science, and to this end provided numerous meditations and exercises for his esoteric students during the first three decades of the twentieth century. He always emphasized the need for self-development through the regular practice of meditations and exercises to strengthen and clarify one's thinking, feeling, and will. Steiner saw such efforts as means not only to develop spiritual sight, but also to protect oneself inwardly from the various dangers inherent to inner development, including egoism and mistaking fantasy for spiritual realities.   This handbook offers verses, exercises, and original instructions from Steiner, along with commentary, suggestions, and context from Gertrude Reif Hughes, a student of Anthroposophy for much of her life. Having meditated Steiner's verses and their meanings for decades, she describes how the content of these inspiring meditations can create far-reaching effects for one's life on Earth as well as for one's eventual life in the spiritual world.   More Radiant than the Sun will be a valuable companion for anyone who is serious about deepening the practice of Anthroposophy.   Contents:    Introduction   Three Meditations on Self   More Radiant Than the Sun Life Becomes The Six Essential Exercises   Three Plant Meditations   Perceiving Growth and Decay The Visible and Invisible Plant Meditation   Three Meditations on the Cosmos   Trust in Thinking Rainbow Colors Exercise From Static to Dynamic   Three Meditations on Moral Ideas   The Rose Cross Meditating on a Feeling of Joy Point and Periphery Exercise   The Foundation Meditation   Afterword: Fostering Transformation from the Future Cited and Relevant Works\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990165053492,"sku":"9781621480358","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480358.jpg?v=1782632303"},{"product_id":"9781621480112","title":"The Culture of Selflessness","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople will have to exchange the spirit of mere thinking for the spirit of direct vision, of direct compassion and shared experience of the Christ who is spiritually alive and walks at the side of all human souls.\"We must first become selfless. That is the task of culture today for the future. Humanity must become more and more selfless; therein lies the future of right moral life deeds, the future of all acts of love that can occur through earthly humanity.\" --Rudolf Steiner (Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha,  pp. 67, 119)In a lecture eight weeks before the outbreak of World War I, Rudolf Steiner, conscious of developments to come, coined the phrase \"culture of selflessness\" to describe the culture that would develop in the future. The far-reaching social implications of his primarily Christological lectures on the Fifth Gospel, given in 1913\/14 under the same political circumstances, were foreign to many of Steiner's contemporary audiences, who largely failed to understand his dramatic accounts drawn from the Fifth Gospel (or that gospel itself) as a \"source of comfort\" for the future, or (as Rudolf Steiner said of them) as \"needed\" for future work.The subsequent catastrophes of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, however, have sensitized us to Steiner's central themes and contents of 1913\/14. He spoke of spiritual development and self-preservation in the face of great suffering; of truly participating in the misfortunes of others; and of acquiring \"true selflessness\" that takes the human \"I\" fully into account. During the 1930s, during the National Socialist reign of violence, a few of Rudolf Steiner's pupils took this path of moral resistance and all-embracing therapeutic action. One example is described in the second chapter of this volume. Many other destinies are less well-known; by now, they can no longer be saved completely from oblivion. They include the great life work of Maria Krehbiel-Darmstadter, an anthroposophist of Jewish origin who was murdered in Auschwitz in January 1943. However, both now and in the future, in a world that must find humane ways to endure continued calamities of tremendous magnitude, the task Rudolf Steiner described remains relevant in all cultures and all parts of the globe. \"A single great community covers the earth. Its name is suffering and strength.\" This book is a translation of Die Kultur der Selbstlosigkeit. 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The author approaches these questions from three perspectives: first, from his personal experience and active love of music; second, from the physiological perspective; and third, from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science.Dr. Husemann--author of The Harmony of the Human Body--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. 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With descriptions of how to identify your child's temperament, tips for tailoring disciplinary techniques so your child really hears you, as well as suggestions for helping your boy or girl feel safe and secure, Authentic Parenting is a valuable resource for bringing our the best in both our children and ourselves. The authors have provided an invaluable resource for all parents and educators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990165643316,"sku":"9781621480464","price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480464.jpg?v=1782632306"},{"product_id":"9781621480518","title":"The Last Three Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"As for me, I will claim for myself the freedom always to be in the place that I feel I need to be in my inmost feelings.\"  - Ita Wegman, August 26, 1940  Ita Wegman spent the last three years of her life in Tessin, in the Casa Andrea Cristoforo. In this secluded province, largely protected from the destructive events of those years and imbued with certain forces, she developed a great work for the future, gathering, leading, and nurturing people both therapeutically and spiritually, preparing for the war's end with the full intensity of her being.  Her last three years were a period of devotion to Rudolf Steiner and his work, as well as to esoteric Christianity - to the forces of the Archangel Michael and to Christ for the present and future. She continued to take a great interest in the difficulties of her time and never ceased to participate in events - taking in refugee children and the homeless, keeping up extensive correspondences with others, struggling with aid organizations and various agencies, caring daily for the afflicted and for patients and colleagues. On March 4, 1943, Ita Wegman passed into the spiritual worlds, well prepared and with all of the spiritual intentions of a Christian initiate.  This book contributes to documenting the final phase of Ita Wegman's life, focusing on the forces of the future that emerged in her. It draws on her notebooks from her time in Ascona, as well as from her extensive correspondence and 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.  This book was originally published in German as \"Die letzten drei Jahre. 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Can we come to appreciate the learning that our 'I' has received through heredity, ethnicity, schooling, and gender without losing a sense of our true individuality?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990165839924,"sku":"9781621480402","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480402.jpg?v=1782632304"},{"product_id":"9781621480556","title":"Renovacion Escolar","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraduccion en Espanol de School Renewal Spanish translation of School Renewal  Como consecuencia de la actual crisis en educacion, la gente esta empezando a darse cuenta de que las escuelas abarcan mucho mas que la provision de conocimientos y aptitudes a los ninos. Las escuelas son comunidades y, como todas las comunidades, puede ser o no saludables.   Renovacion escolar aborda los problemas y desafios de una comunidad escolar. Mediante el empleo de cuentos, mitos y la experiencia personal de la educacion Waldorf, Torin Finser describe la forma en la que tanto maestros como padres afrontan problemas cotidianos como el agotamiento, los conflictos interpersonales y las trampas de la rutina.   Lo mas importante es que el autor hace hincapie en que una comunidad educativa debe llegar a un acuerdo con las numerosas dimensiones ocultas de cada individuo. Muestra como se pueden cultivar y alimentar estos aspectos poco entendidos de la mente con el fin de mantener viva la escuela y la educacion.   Renovacion escolar no ofrece formulas ni soluciones chapuceras. En su lugar, anima a una nueva manera de pensar acerca de la educacion y el crecimiento personal (para los ninos y los adultos que se preocupan por ellos).   \"...si se me pudiese conceder un deseo en nombre de la renovacion escolar, pediria una mejora significativa en la calidad del sueno de padres y maestros. Ningun otro cambio tiene un potencial mas beneficioso que el de eliminar el estado de agotamiento cronico que se produce a final de semana en la mayoria de escuelas\".   CONTENIDOS   Agradecimientos   1. INTRODUCCION Vidrieras de colores La taza de corazon de Ewen   2. LA HISTORIA DE SARAH Un dia en la vida Tres anos despues Mientras tanto, vuelta a la escuela No tener adonde ir   3. ES UN ACTO DE EQUILIBRIO Dos companeros de viaje Otro companero La chispa de la vida Tecnologia y fe Equilibrio   4. MIRARSE AL ESPEJO Los tres pelos de oro del Diablo El martir Cambio personal Necesito ser querido   5. HERRAMIENTAS PARA EL VIAJE INTERIOR Recuerde cuando Leer el destino Aprender de nuevo a rezar El sueno   6. RELACIONARSE ENTRE SI Los paisajes del alma Estar solo o acompanado Mentorizacion y evaluacion   7. EL APRENDIZAJE DE HABILIDADES DE GRUPO Etapas del desarrollo del grupo La separacion y el regreso Enmarcar Afirmar decisiones   8. LIDERAZGO Y COMUNIDAD Noches de padres Facilitacion Liderazgo La nueva comunidad   Notas\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990165970996,"sku":"9781621480556","price":46.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"9781621480570","title":"Four Mystery Dramas","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner's four mystery dramas are powerful portrayals of the complex laws of reincarnation and karma. They transport us into a landscape of the human soul and spirit, where suprasensory beings are active. Through the perception of these hidden worlds, we are given the opportunity to understand the struggles we face in attempting to apply spiritual knowledge to our everyday lives and relationships. Written between 1910 and 1913 during periods of intense inner and outer work, these dramas are powerful testimonies to Steiner's artistic creativity. By manifesting soul and spirit forms on a stage, they foreshadow a dramatic art for the future. THE FOUR PLAYS: The Portal of Initiation A Rosicrucian Mystery, through Rudolf Steiner (1910) The Trial of the Soul A Life Tableau in Dramatic Scenes (1911) The Guardian of the Threshold Soul Events in Dramatic Scenes (1912) The Souls' Awakening Soul and Spirit Events in Dramatic Scenes (1913)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166200372,"sku":"9781621480570","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480570.jpg?v=1782632303"},{"product_id":"9781621480532","title":"Honoring Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Consideration from an Anthroposophical Point of View  The reflections in this book by Peter Selg and Sergei Prokofieff on the soul-spiritual, ethical, and medical-therapeutic issues surrounding physician-assisted suicide (and suicide as such) will provoke thought, feeling, and the will. It takes its inspiration from both Rudolf Steiner and the ancient Greek Hippocratic Oath.  Peter Selg begins by showing how Rudolf Steiner views the principle of life as immanent spirit and the living medium of the \"I,\" or individuality and as inviolable and wise beyond our understanding. It is the sacred task of healing always to attend to, honor, and serve life in this sense - to affirm, enhance, and strengthen the life forces of the sick. As Rudolf Steiner puts it, \"The will to heal must always function as therapeutically as possible...even when one thinks that the sick person is incurable.\" These words were spoken before the full consummation of materialist, technologically enhanced medicine, but Rudolf Steiner, as Peter Selg shows, was well aware of the dangers related to the direction of modern medicine. Sergei Prokofieff links the initiatory origins of Hippocratic medicine in the Mysteries with the return of the Mystery origin of medicine and healing in Anthroposophic medicine. Turning to Steiner's spiritual research, he considers suicide to be an \"illness\" of our time and examines the spiritual consequences of suicide for the after-death experiences of those who have taken their own lives - specifically, that suicide results in the soul's profound disorientation. He goes on to show how suicide makes the after-death experience of Christ infinitely more difficult, as it does the \"resurrection of the spirit\" and the relation to the spiritual world. Far from being a \"free\" act, Prokofieff concludes, suicide is quite the opposite.  Anyone seeking insight into suicide will find in this book a profound and esoteric introduction to this controversial problem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166233140,"sku":"9781621480532","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480532.jpg?v=1782632304"},{"product_id":"9781621480495","title":"Rethinking Economics","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner gave this complex sequence of dense, subtle, multileveled lectures and seminars to students of economics in Dornach, Switzerland, during the summer of 1922. The course reflects a lifetime of thinking on the subject and marks the conclusion of his intense five-year period of activism in the service of social, political, and economic issues.  Rethinking Economics is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the true nature of an economy and how it works. Steiner presents the basic elements of what it would take to create a just, socially responsible, and ecologically aware economy today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166298676,"sku":"9781621480495","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480495.jpg?v=1782632301"},{"product_id":"9781621480709","title":"Interdisciplinary Astronomy","description":"\u003cp\u003e18 lectures, Stuttgart, January 1-18, 1921 (CW 323)   \"So you see, the most important thing to me has been to call forth within you an experience of the harmony between the human constitution and the structure of the cosmos. If you've really been following thus far, you can't possibly regard this harmony as a sin against the spirit of science\" (from lecture 16)   What is the relationship between the human being and the world of the stars? Can we comprehend the structure and movement of celestial bodies solely through advanced mathematics, or is there in reality a point beyond which mathematical functions no longer apply? Can we, in fact, transcend the limits of three-dimensional space through our thinking?    In eighteen lively lectures from the beginning of 1921, Rudolf Steiner dives deeply and courageously, though carefully, into these and other profound questions. His conclusions and indications for further research are at once fascinating, stimulating, and quite possibly revolutionary in their implications.    The subject of these lectures is not astronomy, broadly considered, but the relationship of astronomy to the other fields of natural science. As he does elsewhere, Steiner maintains that the rigid specialization so prevalent in scientific endeavors will not bring us any closer to an integrated, singularly comprehensible understanding of the reality of our world. In particular, a true grasp of the workings of the universe will not be possible until its mirror, the study of human embryology, is recognized as such and penetrated with this reflective relationship in mind.    Steiner once again shows himself to be both an utterly unique and masterful commentator on scientific and intellectual history, as well as a living light, shining a possible forward path for human progress and self-knowledge.   This volume is a translation from German of Das Verhaltnis der verschiedenen naturwissenschaftlichen Gebiete zur Astronomie: Dritter naturwissenschaftlicher Kurs: Himmelskunde in Beziehung zum Menschen und zur Menschenkunde (GA 323, 2nd ed.), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach, Switzerland, 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166429748,"sku":"9781621480709","price":69.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480709.jpg?v=1782632308"},{"product_id":"9781621480655","title":"Spiritual Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1933 to 1935, Ita Wegman was confronted by both Nazi fascism and internal crises in the General Anthroposophical Society. During those years, she travelled to Palestine in the fall of 1934 following a grave illness that nearly ended with her death. Her correspondence during this period, as well as her notes on the trip, reveal the great biographical importance to her of these travels and indeed the whole scope of her spiritual experiences in 1934. Ita Wegman had unambiguous perspectives and a uniquely clear view of both the political threat and her social-spiritual task during this period. There was, however, a radical change in her inner stance toward the opposition, aggression, and defamation she encountered within anthroposophic contexts in reaction to her intense, purely motivated efforts. She tried to live and work in true accord with her inner impulses and, ultimately, with Rudolf Steiner's legacy, especially within the anthroposophic movement. Doing so, she increasingly found her way to her own distinctive and uncompromising path. The author reveals the general nature of those three years - a period whose distinctive spiritual and Christological task and dramatic dangers Rudolf Steiner had foreseen in 1923: \"If these men [the Nazis] gain government power, I will no longer be able to set foot on German soil.\" Ita Wegman's efforts in 1933 to confront the dark powers of National Socialism and the convulsions in Dornach, which she experienced firsthand, as well as her subsequent illness and the clarity of her \"Christological conversion\" in 1934 to '35, reveal a very specific, intrinsically comprehensible and forward-looking quality whose spiritual signature is clearly prefigured in Rudolf Steiner's spiritual-scientific predictions. In this book, Peter 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.\"  This book was originally published in German as Geistiger Widerstand und Uberwindung. Ita Wegman 1933 - 1935 by Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166560820,"sku":"9781621480655","price":69.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480655.jpg?v=1782632306"},{"product_id":"9781621480631","title":"A Second Classroom","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does a healthy, successful school look like? Is it all about measurable outcomes, test scores, and pass\/fail grades set by the government? Can learning be quantified in short-term measurements or does real learning take years to manifest in a career or biography. All seem to agree that a healthy school is also a community and that community depends on the quality of relationships - chiefly the relationships among students, teachers, and parents.  This book features a comprehensive examination of the parent - teacher relationship in all its dimensions, from parent evenings and conferences to communication, conflict, and the life-cycle of parent involvement in their school. In between the chapters on practical advice are sections that consider the issues from a deeper, spiritual dimension. This book is intended to stimulate conversation, self-reflection, and relational practices that awaken community life in and around our schools. ________________________________________  \"The world of parent - teacher relations has grown more complex over the years and at its worst can feel like a minefield. Torin de-mines and demystifies the experience with information, insights, stories, and warmth, creating a safe passage for teachers and parents.\"  - Joan Almon, Waldorf educator and cofounder of Alliance for Childhood  \"Readers of my books will appreciate Torin's approach to parent - teacher relations. He looks at the key issues through various lenses and gives both practical and spiritual advice to all who seek to build healthy relationships around our school-age children. I highly recommend this new book!\"  - Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul  \"What Torin has so sensitively crafted here will give you greater simplicity and spaciousness in school community life. I highly recommend this book to all parents and teachers, but especially to those connected to Waldorf schools.\"  - Kim John Payne, M.Ed., author of Simplicity Parenting and Beyond Winning  \"This book is a call for parents and teachers to work more effectively together on behalf of our children. Torin uses a variety of approaches to stimulate conversation and help us strengthen the communities around our schools. I highly recommend this provocative book!\" - David Sobel, author of Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166626356,"sku":"9781621480631","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480631.jpg?v=1782632304"},{"product_id":"9781621480754","title":"The Connection Between the Living and the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1916. Europe is entering the third year of the most devastatingly brutal war yet known. The high hopes and idealistic expectations for the newly dawned twentieth century have been very quickly met with the murderous visage of modern warfare. (The death toll would eventually reach 35 million souls.) Such is the context and ever-present background to these presentations, informing both their mood and content. Rudolf Steiner gave these eight lectures to the members of the Anthroposophical Society in various European cities throughout 1916, and they are all heartfelt attempts to address--practically--some of the fundamental questions living strongly in his listeners, who must be always be considered, to some degree, as co-creators of the content: Given the fundamental reality of reincarnation, how do the so-called dead remain connected to us? What meaning do these countless sacrificial deaths have? What are the immediate experiences of those who have died? These are a few of the burning questions addressed. The answers given are anything but theoretical. But there is something else here as well. It could be summed up by the title of the lecture that forms the heart of this collection, given in Zurich on October 10, 1916: \"How Can Today's Poverty of Soul be Overcome?\" The \"today\" referred to is not only the \"today\" of the early twentieth century, it is the epoch in which we are living now; and the overcoming of this \"poverty of soul,\" the wholeheartedly human advice for doing so, only becomes more valid, more urgent, by the hour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166691892,"sku":"9781621480754","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480754.jpg?v=1782632305"},{"product_id":"9781621480808","title":"The Mysteries","description":"\u003cp\u003e1 Lecture, Cologne, December 25, 1907  In this lecture, given on Christmas day, Rudolf Steiner reflects on the deep mysteries of the events surrounding Christ's incarnation, death, and resurrection on Earth. The foundation of his message was 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:  \"Here, in Goethe's poem, we have a wonderful phenomenon. We encounter a person who, in the simplest childlike words, not spoken out of his intellect and formed ideas, imparts to us the highest wisdom, the fruits, of his previous cognitions. He has transformed these cognitions into feelings and sentiments, and has, therefore, been called to lead others who may even have learned more conceptually. Such a pilgrim with a mature soul who has transformed into immediate feeling and sentiment much of what he had collected as knowledge in prior incarnations...such a pilgrim do we have before us in the person of Brother Marcus. As a member of a secret Brotherhood he is sent out with an important mission to another secret Brotherhood...\" Die and be born - overcome what has been given to you originally in your three lower bodies. Kill it off, but don't kill it to wish death, but to purify what exists in the three bodies, so that you can conquer in the 'I' the power to reach more and more perfection. By killing off what has been given in the three lower bodies, the 'I' gains the power of perfecting. In the 'I' the Christ shall, within the Christ principle, take up the power of perfecting, even into the blood. Even into the blood shall the power be effective.\" This lecture was translated from Natur- und Geisteswesen - ihr Wirken in unserer sichtbaren Welt (CW 98)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RUDOLF STEINER PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166954036,"sku":"9781621480808","price":20.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480808.jpg?v=1782632306"},{"product_id":"9781621480822","title":"Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This biography does not aim for completeness, but focuses on Rudolf Steiner's being, intentions, and journey - aspects that must not be obliterated by the many events, foundations, and people involved with Anthroposophy...It wants to convey (to quote Emil Leinhas) 'the immense greatness and unique significance of this individuality who radiates out over the centuries.'\"  - Peter Selg (from the introduction)  To acknowledge and understand Rudolf Steiner's unique achievement and life's work, one 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 Rudolf Steiner, it is a central aspect of being human, even in times when the suprasensory aspect of humanity is eclipsed (for ordinary day consciousness) and almost eliminated by certain civilizations.The interest in Rudolf Steiner's person and essence, in his attitude toward life and work, will continue to grow in the decades and centuries that lie ahead, both within and outside the anthroposophical movement. It will take hold of entirely different groups of people, including those who come with spiritual questions or discover them in times of need. Rudolf Steiner's work grew to be \"one unique effort of bringing courage to human beings\" (Michael Bauer).  This is the first of seven comprehensive volumes on Rudolf Steiner's \"being, intentions, and journey.\" It presents Rudolf 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. By considering his formative years in depth, we come to understand better the roots and development of Rudolf Steiner's later spiritual research and teachings.  This volume is a translation from German of the first three chapters of Rudolf Steiner. 1861 - 1925: Lebens- und Werkgeschichte. Band 1: 1861 - 1914 (Ita Wegman Institut, 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990166986804,"sku":"9781621480822","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480822.jpg?v=1782632309"},{"product_id":"9781621480617","title":"Steiner's Theosophy and Principles of Spiritual Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[In February 1904] Dr. Steiner began his lecture tours. Meanwhile, his book Theosophy was published, and I threw myself into it with the greatest enthusiasm, wrestling with it for months with every page, every sentence, and many words. When I had the foundation for a judgment, which I had somewhat carelessly expressed after my visit to Berlin, I would follow this man blindfolded. For now I had learned to follow with open eyes.\"  - Carl Unger  In part one, Carl Unger outlines and unlocks one of Rudolf Steiner's most essential works, Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos (CW 9). As a close personal student of Rudolf Steiner and a member of his esoteric school, Carl Unger gained deep understanding of Steiner's most profound works, especially Theosophy. For those who want to \"crack\" this book and are willing to work, Carl Unger's commentary will prove enlightening and help the reader penetrate beyond an intellectual understanding of Steiner's seminal work.  In part two, the author guides the reader through the essential principles that underlay anthroposophic Spiritual Science. In his foreword to its earlier publication, Alan Howard wrote, \"This little volume, though not the only work from Unger's hand, is the essence of what he did in this field. It is not everybody's book, nor, even for those who decide to take it up, an easy book. Each sentence builds closely on all that precede it; each is essential to all that follow. For those students, however, who seek a secure foundation in pure thought for the suprasensory realities of which Steiner speaks, and are willing to give it the study it deserves, this book will be a continuing reward and delight.\" ________________________________________  \"[You will] sense that there is great benefit when intentions surface within the Anthroposophical Society that strive toward an elaboration of epistemological principles in the best of all epistemological senses. And since we have a worker of extraordinary significance in this area (Dr. Carl Unger) right here in Stuttgart, this should be seen as a beneficial stream within our Movement.\"  - Rudolf Steiner (Aug. 17, 1908)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990167019572,"sku":"9781621480617","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480617.jpg?v=1782632307"},{"product_id":"9781621480686","title":"Destiny of the Michael Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn two related studies, Peter Selg tracks the groundbreaking of the first Goetheanum on September 20, 1913, in the context of what is known as the \"Michael movement,\" the primary active impulse brought by Rudolf Steiner in 1924, which explicitly indicates the anthroposophic movement and its official society. The author shows the fundamental importance of this beginning in Dornach. He illuminates the fateful goal of the \"School for Spiritual Science\" through Rudolf Steiner's karma lectures, not only providentially in the sense that it involved individualities, but also with regard to the future development of human civilization. This monograph builds on Peter Selg's book Rudolf Steiner's Foundation Stone Meditation: And the Destruction of the Twentieth Century and Sergei O. Prokofieff's Rudolf Steiner's Sculptural Group: A Revelation of the Spiritual Purpose of Humanity and the Earth. Originally published in German as Grundstein zur Zukunft. Vom Schicksal der Michael-Gemeinschaft (Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990167117876,"sku":"9781621480686","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480686.jpg?v=1782632304"},{"product_id":"9781621480914","title":"Goethe's Faust in the Light of Anthroposophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy late 1916, Rudolf Steiner had become an important interpreter of Goethe and frequently discussed Faust--probably Goethe's greatest work--from the perspective of anthroposophic Spiritual Science. Although Steiner's readings are unconventional and unsystematic, his insights into the text are penetrating and prescient, opening scholarly avenues not discovered or pursued by others until decades later and, in some cases, still await fuller elaboration. Steiner's account is completely unlike those of his contemporaries, including those Goethean scholars he most admired. His approach is not a philological construction of the ideal text, a positivistic account of the biographical genesis of the work or influences on Goethe, an intellectual and historical recasting of the drama as implied philosophical argument, or a view of the tale through the lens of an especially refined sensibility. Steiner's discussions veer into each of these arenas, but, invariably, he steers back to his original course, stressing the least realistic, least historical, and least romantic aspects of Goethe. Steiner contributed to the scholarship on Faust by, above all, opening new aesthetic perspectives; by revealing the centrality of Greek Mystery religion within the archetypal unconscious of Faust; by showing the duality of evil latent within Goethe's text; and by exploring an alchemical transformation of consciousness. In this volume, Steiner anticipates the best of Goethe's Faust by helping us to see the Neoplatonic Faust,  the Hermetic Faust,  the archetypal Faust--in short, the esoteric Faust.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990167216180,"sku":"9781621480914","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480914.jpg?v=1782632306"},{"product_id":"9781621480853","title":"Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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. This cannot be achieved as quickly as people today would like this to happen. There is nothing for it; anyone who was careless enough to live at the end of the nineteenth century must bear it.\" - Rudolf Steiner, July 18, 1891  The first chapter of this volume looks at Rudolf Steiner's years in Weimar, beginning with his work at the Goethe Archives editing Goethe's scientific works. It was in this capacity that 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 the writing and publication of his 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 Archives.  The second chapter focuses on Rudolf Steiner's time in Berlin, where he worked as editor of a cultural periodical, Magazin fur Litteratur, and accepted a position as lecturer at the Workers' School. There he was able to grow into his capacity as a teacher and where, although he encountered many ideological challenges, his insight into historical development found wide appreciation among students.  The third chapter 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. His decisive 1899 essay, Individualism in Philosophy, marked this impulse, followed by invitations to lecture freely before the Theosophical Society, where Rudolf Steiner presented the esoteric nature of Goethe's fairy tale and the content of what later became his own books Mystics after Modernism (CW 7) and Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity (CW 8). Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work, volume 2 is a translation from German of chapters 4 and 5 of Rudolf Steiner. 1861-1925: Lebens- und Werkgeschichte. 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From the outset of his theosophical involvement, Steiner was resolved to serve and develop the Western path to the spirit, traversed in full, conscious clarity of thought. He was therefore critical of the tendency to avoid the modern standards of a sound knowledge process in matters of spirituality and esotericism, and instead emphasized the importance of idealist philosophy as groundwork for understanding spiritual cognition.   Although his approach did not always harmonize with theosophical pursuits, Rudolf Steiner recognized the sincere striving at the basis of this movement and agreed to take on increasingly greater responsibility for the German Section. Marie von Sivers, who would later become his wife, was his most supportive colleague during this time. At a decisive juncture, Steiner broke from the Theosophical Society to found the Anthroposophical Society, through which he would continue the development of modern spiritual science more freely in accord with his original intentions.   This volume covers the period during which Steiner wrote some of his foundational works: Christianity as Mystical Fact (1902); Theosophy (1904); How to Know Higher Worlds (1904); and An Outline of Esoteric Science (1909). Peter Selg also describes the building of the first Goetheanum in Dornach as an artistic embodiment of esoteric wisdom, giving rise to an international working community, as well as the performance of the mystery dramas and Rudolf Steiner's profound Christological lectures known as the Fifth Gospel.   Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work, Seven Volumes   Vol. 1. (1861-1890): Childhood, Youth, and Study Years (ISBN: 9781621480822 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621480839 Hbk)   Vol. 2. (1890-1900): Weimar and Berlin (ISBN: 9781621480853 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621480860 Hbk)   Vol. 3. (1900-1914): Spiritual Science and Spiritual Community (ISBN: 9781621480884 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621480891 Hbk)   Vol. 4. (1914-1918): The Years of World War I (ISBN: 9781621481577 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621481584 Hbk)   Vol. 5. (1919-1922): Social Threefolding and the Waldorf School (ISBN: 9781621481935 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621481942 Hbk)   Vol. 6. (1923): The Burning of the Goetheanum (ISBN: 9781621482192 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621482208 Hbk)   Vol. 7. (1924-1925): The Anthroposophical Society and the School for Spiritual Science (ISBN: 9781621482321 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621482338 Hbk)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168166452,"sku":"9781621480884","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480884.jpg?v=1782632308"},{"product_id":"9781621480839","title":"Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This biography does not aim for completeness, but focuses on Rudolf Steiner's being, intentions, and journey - aspects that must not be obliterated by the many events, foundations, and people involved with Anthroposophy...It wants to convey (to quote Emil Leinhas) 'the immense greatness and unique significance of this individuality who radiates out over the centuries.'\"  - Peter Selg (from the introduction)  To acknowledge and understand Rudolf Steiner's unique achievement and life's work, one 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 Rudolf Steiner, it is a central aspect of being human, even in times when the suprasensory aspect of humanity is eclipsed (for ordinary day consciousness) and almost eliminated by certain civilizations.The interest in Rudolf Steiner's person and essence, in his attitude toward life and work, will continue to grow in the decades and centuries that lie ahead, both within and outside the anthroposophical movement. It will take hold of entirely different groups of people, including those who come with spiritual questions or discover them in times of need. Rudolf Steiner's work grew to be \"one unique effort of bringing courage to human beings\" (Michael Bauer).  This is the first of seven comprehensive volumes on Rudolf Steiner's \"being, intentions, and journey.\" It presents Rudolf 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. By considering his formative years in depth, we come to understand better the roots and development of Rudolf Steiner's later spiritual research and teachings.  This volume is a translation from German of the first three chapters of Rudolf Steiner. 1861 - 1925: Lebens- und Werkgeschichte. 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There is nothing for it; anyone who was careless enough to live at the end of the nineteenth century must bear it.\" - Rudolf Steiner, July 18, 1891  The first chapter of this volume looks at Rudolf Steiner's years in Weimar, beginning with his work at the Goethe Archives editing Goethe's scientific works. It was in this capacity that 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 the writing and publication of his 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 Archives.  The second chapter focuses on Rudolf Steiner's time in Berlin, where he worked as editor of a cultural periodical, Magazin fur Litteratur, and accepted a position as lecturer at the Workers' School. There he was able to grow into his capacity as a teacher and where, although he encountered many ideological challenges, his insight into historical development found wide appreciation among students.  The third chapter 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. His decisive 1899 essay, Individualism in Philosophy, marked this impulse, followed by invitations to lecture freely before the Theosophical Society, where Rudolf Steiner presented the esoteric nature of Goethe's fairy tale and the content of what later became his own books Mystics after Modernism (CW 7) and Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity (CW 8). Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work, volume 2 is a translation from German of chapters 4 and 5 of Rudolf Steiner. 1861-1925: Lebens- und Werkgeschichte. 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O'Leary   Family and Early Years  High School  College 1950-1953 Law School till Marriage and Military Marriage, Law School, and the Draft Army Wrapping up Law School Looking Forward from 1957 Law Practice 1957-1984 My Solo Practice (March 1, 1961-August 15, 1962) The Smith Firm Years Section of Images Investment and Business Charity, Civic Work, Politics, and Travel The Threefold Denouement Running Music The Appearance of Destiny Timeline of Significant Events in the Life of Edward Reaugh Smith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168461364,"sku":"9781621481034","price":92.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621481034.jpg?v=1782632310"},{"product_id":"9781621480938","title":"Sexuality, Inner Development, and Community Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e7 lectures, Dornach, September 10-16, 1915 (CW 253)   Occasioned by a \"scandal\" precipitated by Rudolf Steiner's marriage to Marie von Sivers in 1915, the lectures that constitute part one contain Steiner's strongest statements on the issue of human relationships in a spiritual community. Using emphatic language Steiner makes it clear that becoming part of a spiritual community entails responsibilities and, indeed, a new way of being, and that members must become actively interested and engaged in the concerns of the group rather than simply wanting or expecting personal benefit from it. Above all, he asserts that it is essential for members to realize that a spiritual community is a living entity that needs the care and respect of its creators.   Because the crisis had been provoked by individuals under the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis, Steiner assesses Freud's work, and psychoanalysis as a whole, illumined by an anthroposophic understanding of the human being. Steiner also speaks on sexuality and modern clairvoyance, relating them to Freudian psychoanalysis, as well as to the seer Emanuel Swedenborg as an example of the difficulties of entering the spiritual world. Then, starting from a historical perspective, Steiner poses a question: How old is love? He goes on to examine our modern idea of love in the context of mysticism.   Part two includes documentation of the Dornach crisis, along with two addresses by Rudolf Steiner to the members there, as well as Marie Steiner's address to the Women's Meeting on the particular tasks and challenges of women, both as members of the women's movement of the time and in a spiritual community.   CONTENTS:    Preface Introduction by Christopher Schaefer, PhD   I. Terms and Conditions of Life in the Anthroposophical Society Requirements of Our Life Together in the Anthroposophical Society The Anthroposophical Society as a Living Being  Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering Spiritual Worlds  Methods and Rationale of Freudian Psychoanalysis Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance: Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer The Concept of Love as It Relates to Mysticism The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis as Illumined by an Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being   II. Documentation on the Dornach Crisis of 1915 with Two Addresses by Rudolf Steiner The Protagonists Letters from Alice Sprengel to Rudolf Steiner  Letter from Alice Sprengel to Marie Steiner  Letter from Mary Peet to Alice Sprengel  Address by Rudolf Steiner Letter from Heinrich and Gertrud Goesch to Rudolf Steiner  Letter from the members in Dornach to Rudolf Steiner Address by Rudolf Steiner Resolving the Case Letter from the members in Dornach to Marie Steiner Letter from the Vorstand of the Anthroposophical Society to Heinrich and Gertrud Goesch and Alice Sprengel  Marie Steiner's Address at the Women's Meeting Letter from Marie Steiner to Julia Wernicke   Sexuality, Inner Development, and Community Life is a translation from German of the book Probleme des Zusammenlebens in der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft. Zur Dornacher Krise vom Jahre 1915 Mit Streiflichtern auf Swedenborgs Hellsehergabe, Anschauungen der Freudschen Psychoanalyse und den Begriff der Liebe im Verhaltnis zur Mystik (GA 253).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168494132,"sku":"9781621480938","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480938.jpg?v=1782632306"},{"product_id":"9781621480891","title":"Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work Vol. 3 1900-1914 2\/e","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Try to become one with the world--that will be the best and most important 'program.' It is something that cannot be contained in statutes but needs to burn in our hearts as a flame.\" --Rudolf Steiner   The third volume of Peter Selg's comprehensive presentation of Rudolf Steiner's life and work begins with Steiner's invitation to lecture in the Theosophical Society during the summer of 1900. From the outset of his theosophical involvement, Steiner was resolved to serve and develop the Western path to the spirit, traversed in full, conscious clarity of thought. He was therefore critical of the tendency to avoid the modern standards of a sound knowledge process in matters of spirituality and esotericism, and instead emphasized the importance of idealist philosophy as groundwork for understanding spiritual cognition.   Although his approach did not always harmonize with theosophical pursuits, Rudolf Steiner recognized the sincere striving at the basis of this movement and agreed to take on increasingly greater responsibility for the German Section. Marie von Sivers, who would later become his wife, was his most supportive colleague during this time. At a decisive juncture, Steiner broke from the Theosophical Society to found the Anthroposophical Society, through which he would continue the development of modern spiritual science more freely in accord with his original intentions.   This volume covers the period during which Steiner wrote some of his foundational works: Christianity as Mystical Fact (1902); Theosophy (1904); How to Know Higher Worlds (1904); and An Outline of Esoteric Science (1909). Peter Selg also describes the building of the first Goetheanum in Dornach as an artistic embodiment of esoteric wisdom, giving rise to an international working community, as well as the performance of the mystery dramas and Rudolf Steiner's profound Christological lectures known as the Fifth Gospel.   Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work, Seven Volumes   Vol. 1. (1861-1890): Childhood, Youth, and Study Years (ISBN: 9781621480822 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621480839 Hbk)   Vol. 2. (1890-1900): Weimar and Berlin (ISBN: 9781621480853 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621480860 Hbk)   Vol. 3. (1900-1914): Spiritual Science and Spiritual Community (ISBN: 9781621480884 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621480891 Hbk)   Vol. 4. (1914-1918): The Years of World War I (ISBN: 9781621481577 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621481584 Hbk)   Vol. 5. (1919-1922): Social Threefolding and the Waldorf School (ISBN: 9781621481935 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621481942 Hbk)   Vol. 6. (1923): The Burning of the Goetheanum (ISBN: 9781621482192 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621482208 Hbk)   Vol. 7. (1924-1925): The Anthroposophical Society and the School for Spiritual Science (ISBN: 9781621482321 Pbk - ISBN: 9781621482338 Hbk)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168526900,"sku":"9781621480891","price":92.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480891.jpg?v=1782632310"},{"product_id":"9781621481072","title":"Pathways (paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePathways tells the story of his multifaceted life, from his youth as a student and athlete to becoming a a husband and father, attorney, musician, entrepreneur, and author. The intimate narrative of his life is both surprising and inspiring, allowing the reader a glimpse into the formation of a remarkable life. Edward Reaugh Smith is the author of eight books for SteinerBooks on Anthroposophy and the Bible, as well as an autobiography.    C O N T E N T S    Preface by Paul V. O'Leary   Family and Early Years  High School  College 1950-1953 Law School till Marriage and Military Marriage, Law School, and the Draft Army Wrapping up Law School Looking Forward from 1957 Law Practice 1957-1984 My Solo Practice (March 1, 1961-August 15, 1962) The Smith Firm Years Section of Images Investment and Business Charity, Civic Work, Politics, and Travel The Threefold Denouement Running Music The Appearance of Destiny Timeline of Significant Events in the Life of Edward Reaugh Smith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168625204,"sku":"9781621481072","price":80.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621481072.jpg?v=1782632310"},{"product_id":"9781621480952","title":"The Mystery of the Trinity 2\/e","description":"\u003cp\u003eI n these exciting lectures given in 1922, Rudolf Steiner explores the practical consequences of Christian theological spiritual facts as they unfold in human consciousness. Starting with the early Gnostic understanding of the Christ event from within, Steiner shows how medieval theology reached an exoteric view of the spiritual world. It was this view that, coupled with the rise of abstract intellectuality, led to the separation of faith and knowledge that denied humanity access to suprasensory worlds. Using examples from Dionsyius the Areopagite, John Scotus Eriugena, Paracelsus, and Goethe, Steiner then lays the foundations for a path to the suprasensory that would unite faith and knowledge, through the spirit, in a full trinitarian understanding of the human being and the cosmos. Part two consists of lectures given in England that deepen our understanding of the Trinity as this may be known through the spirit. The first lecture deals in a remarkable way with practice and stages of meditation. On the basis of such meditation, Steiner shows how we can begin to understand the cosmic origin of the human being and the meaning of The Mystery of Golgotha for humanity and the cosmos. Above all, he stresses, meditation will allow us to realize the foundations of true knowledge: Ex deo nascimur (We are born of God); In Christo morimur (In Christ we die); Per spiritum sanctum reviscimus (Through the Holy Spirit we are reborn).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168657972,"sku":"9781621480952","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480952.jpg?v=1782632306"},{"product_id":"9781621480976","title":"Toward a New Theory of Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner gave thousands of lectures in his lifetime, usually without notes, and, with very few exceptions, with nothing more than chalk and a blackboard if he chose to accompany his speech with some kind of visual illustration. A notable exception is the presentation that constitutes the main part of this book. Given in June 1921, in Bern just eighteen months before its tragic destruction by fire, this lecture and slide show (consisting of a hundred slides) is both the closest thing we have to a guided tour of the original Goetheanum by its architect and a profound statement of artistic purpose. In addition to the lecture and slide show that comprise the main content of this volume, the introduction by John Kettle serves to place Steiner's artistic contribution to architecture in the context of early twentieth-century Expressionism and Organicism. Frederick Amrine's thorough bibliographic essay highlights the most important secondary literature on Steiner's architecture and provides a sound entry to further exploration and study.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168854580,"sku":"9781621480976","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480976.jpg?v=1782632309"},{"product_id":"9781621480990","title":"Architecture as Peacework","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the construction of the singular architectural masterwork that would later be called the Goetheanum (and, later still, the First Goetheanum) was already well under way on a hill just above the village of Dornach in neutral Switzerland. There, a small international community had gathered over the previous year to take part in this utterly unique artistic building project under Rudolf Steiner's direction. When the war began, the mood and day-to-day life of Europe was instantly changed, no less so amid this ad hoc spiritual and artistic community: artillery could be heard in the distance; many were called back to their respective countries for armed service; and tensions between individuals of various nationalities who remained in Dornach were very soon in evidence. This is the immediate background to these evening lectures given in the woodworking building next to the construction site in Dornach just two months after the start of the war. Never announcing his intentions, and using the metamorphosing forms of the hand-sculpted wooden architraves resting on the columns inside the building itself as illustration, Steiner embarked on a convincing and heartfelt appreciation, even celebration, of the uniquely beautiful qualities of the various European cultures then at war. These lectures were given at a very specific time and place, to a very specific audience, with a very clear intention--to cultivate in the midst of violence and aggression not just tolerance for other peoples and cultures, but also love and sincere appreciation. Such intentions are still needed today--thus, the continued relevance of these lectures. The Russian writer Andrei Bely was present at these talks, and later commented on them: \"In light of his words we looked at each other with new eyes, the oppressive mood was transformed; other infections broke out later but the national fever was overcome once and for all. The members of the belligerent nations lived in peace from then on.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990168920116,"sku":"9781621480990","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621480990.jpg?v=1782632308"},{"product_id":"9781621481010","title":"Concerning the Astral World and Devachan","description":"\u003cp\u003eNotes from 19 lectures and 4 private lessons, Berlin, 1903-1904 (CW 88)   In Berlin, just past the turn of the twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner, then a relatively unknown writer, educator, and editor, first began his spiritual teaching activity under the auspices of the Theosophical Society. The gatherings at this time were small, often being held in private homes, and therefore, in terms of size and location, intimate.   Immediately after assuming leadership of the German Section of the Theosophical Society, Rudolf Steiner began a comprehensive program of teaching, at first within the Berlin Branch of the Theosophical Society. The notes from nineteen of those early lectures and four private lessons form the content of this volume.   Moving back and forth between Eastern theosophical terminology and Western esoteric tradition, searching for words and pictures, for the first time Steiner was presenting the results of his spiritual-scientific research to small groups of people longing for deeper truths.   \"These lectures from 1903 and 1904 are among the very earliest for which we have any written reports. These reports are not, however, the product of professional stenography, as was the case with later lectures, but have been assembled from notes taken during and after the lectures by those attending.... With all of his printed lectures, but especially with the early ones for which we have only notes, we do not know for certain if he spoke these exact words or meant exactly what he seems to say. We are compelled to use our own best judgment as to what he actually said, and what the meaning might be...in other words, we must think for ourselves\" (James Hindes, from the introduction).   C O N T E N T S:    Introduction by James Hindes   Part I: Concerning the Astral World   1. The Mystery of Birth and Death (Berlin, Oct. 28, 1903) 2. The Higher Worlds and Our Participation in Them (Berlin, Nov. 4, 1903) 3. The Origin and Nature of the Human Being (Berlin, Nov. 11, 1903) 4. The Being and Nature of the Astral World (Berlin, Nov. 18, 1903) 5. The Character of Astral Processes (Berlin, Nov. 25, 1903) 6. Kamaloca (Berlin, Dec. 2, 1903)   Part II: The World of Spirit, or Devachan   1. Berlin, Jan. 28, 1904 2. Berlin, Feb. 4, 1904 3. Berlin, Feb. 11, 1904 4. Berlin, Feb. 25, 1904   Part III: Four Private Lessons   1. The Sun-Logos and the Ten Avatars (Berlin-Schlachtensee, summer 1903) 2. The Bhagavad Gita (Berlin-Schlachtensee, summer 1903) 3. The First, Second, and Third Logoi (Berlin-Schlachtensee, summer 1903).  4. The Higher Development of the Human Being (Berlin-Schlachtensee, summer 1903)   Part IV: Nine Individual Lectures   1. Questions about Reincarnation (Berlin, Aug. 24, 1903) 2. Secrets and Secrecy (Berlin, Sept. 1, 1903) 3. Occult Research of History (Berlin, Oct. 18, 1903) 4. Physical Illnesses and Cosmological Laws (Berlin, Oct. 27, 1903) 5. Early Images of God (Berlin, Nov. 2, 1903) 6. The Fall into Sin (Berlin, Nov. 24, 1903) 7. Cosmology according to Genesis (Berlin, Dec. 8, 1903) 8. Laws of the Universe and Human Destiny (Berlin, Dec. 21, 1903) 9. The Evolutionary Stages of Humanity (Berlin, Dec. 29, 1903)   Editorial and Reference Notes Glossary of Sanskrit Theosophical Terms Significant Events in the Life of Rudolf Steiner Name Index           This book is volume 88 in the Collected Works (CW) of Rudolf Steiner, published by SteinerBooks, 2018. It is a translation from German of UEber die astrale Welt und das Devachan,  published by Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach, Switzerland, 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990169018420,"sku":"9781621481010","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621481010.jpg?v=1782632309"},{"product_id":"9781621481058","title":"Awake! For the Sake of the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e12 lectures, Dornach, January 5 - 28, 1923 (CW 220); translated by Jann W. Gates  The 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 also provides the concrete framework - for anyone with the will to do so - to wake up to reality in an entirely new way. In short, this work and its implications are, therefore, both radical and possibly quite powerful. If this were not true, Anthroposophy would have no real impact and no real enemies. However, this has not been the case.  On New Year's Eve 1922\/23, the (first) Goetheanum - an architectural marvel and the \"House of the Word\" intended to stand as the fully realized physical, artistic embodiment of Anthroposophy on Earth - was deliberately destroyed by fire. This was an unfathomably heavy blow to Steiner and the entire anthroposophic movement. Afterward, however, he was adamant that not a single lecture or event scheduled to take place at the destroyed Goetheanum should be canceled or postponed. He himself carried on with an even more determined - indeed, fiery - resolve.  The course of lectures in this book began on January 5, 1923, as living testament to that resolve. As truly relevant today as they were in 1923 - probably more so - this volume is an exceptionally urgent, 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!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990169083956,"sku":"9781621481058","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621481058.jpg?v=1782632307"},{"product_id":"9781621481089","title":"Mani and Rudolf Steiner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 in order to redeem evil as such. Because a part of the light enters into evil, the evil itself is overcome.\"  - Rudolf Steiner (The Temple Legend, Nov. 11, 1904)  For many centuries, the teaching of Mani was hidden behind the distorted picture that had been created by the adversaries of Manichaeism in East and West. In the course of the twentieth century, new light was shed on Manichaeism by the discovery of several Manichaean scriptures. These have shown that Manichaeism was a true, distinct world religion that, in the question of good and evil, for instance, offers insights that complement and deepen Christianity.  Also in the twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner brought Anthro-posophy, Spiritual Science, which is a 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 Rudolf Steiner, is so great and all-encompassing that it can be understood in its full depth only gradually. In this book, Christine Gruwez explores the essence of Mani's revelation and then shows what Rudolf Steiner has communicated regarding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990169149492,"sku":"9781621481089","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621481089.jpg?v=1782632309"},{"product_id":"9781621481164","title":"The Development of Anthroposophy Since Rudolf Steiner's Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume begins with Thomas Meyer's assessment of Anthroposophy's evolution since Rudolf Steiner's death and its future prospects. He offers an overview of the eighty-seven years of the development of the anthroposophic movement and the Anthroposophical Society, the worldwide organization headquartered in Dornach, Switzerland, since the death of its founder.  The Society went through a very difficult and controversial period in the ten years following Steiner's death, which culminated at its Annual Meeting in 1935. The result was the expulsion from the Society of two members appointed by Rudolf Steiner to its Executive Board (Vorstand) - Ita Wegman and Elizabeth Vreede - as well as the British and Dutch branches of the Society and many important anthroposophists who opposed the expulsions.  Meyer - whose many books include Rudolf Steiner's Core Mission - reveals the extraordinary concordance of four November 17 dates highly significant in the development of Anthroposophy. On November 17, 1901, the anniversary of the founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875, Marie von Sivers asked Rudolf Steiner to create an esoteric path suited to the Western mind, which set Steiner on his mission. On November 17, 1923, Ita Wegman urged Steiner to establish a new Society, with Steiner himself joining as both a member and its president. Twelve years later, on November 17, 1935, the remaining three individuals of the Executive Board wrote to Adolf Hitler to plea for the Society's continued existence in Germany after being banned in Germany by the Nazi regime. Profound connections underlie these events.  Four appendices supplement the present volume. Appendix 1 presents a Chronology that denotes, by year and day, significant episodes in Steiner's life and in the development of Anthroposophy. The remaining appendices feature, for the first time in English in one volume, significant documents pertinent to the Anthroposophical Society's Easter 1935 Annual Meeting. Appendix 2 contains the \"Memorandum,\" written by supporters of Marie Steiner, setting forth a list of grievances in support of the expulsion motions adopted at the 1935 Annual Meeting. Appendix 3 records Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz's address in response 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 to Adolf Hitler.  This important book offers profound insights into the struggles for individual freedom and voice during the early years of the Anthroposophical Society. Seeing the dynamics of that struggle can help us today to overcome differences to work toward common purpose, both in the context of our everyday lives and within a spiritually oriented community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990169346100,"sku":"9781621481164","price":50.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621481164.jpg?v=1782632311"},{"product_id":"9781621481102","title":"Muck and Mind","description":"","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990169411636,"sku":"9781621481102","price":57.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"9781621481126","title":"A Psychology of Human Dignity","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in the Netherlands in 2011, this book is the result of a life's work devoted to developing the craft of psychotherapy in a way that leaves the therapist's and the client's own responsibilities intact and that stimulates a direct, open, and honest link with day-to-day reality. From his deep commitment to raising the consciousness of both therapists and clients regarding the profound relevance of the larger world situation we find ourselves in (history), as well as one's own current stage of life, Ad Dekkers has spent the past thirty years developing a battery of detailed, yet flexible, psychotherapeutic exercises. These organically developed exercises, useful and stimulating for both the practitioner and the general reader, constitute the core of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STEINER BOOKS INC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45990169542708,"sku":"9781621481126","price":69.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781621481126.jpg?v=1782632311"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/collections\/steiner.oembed?page=14","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}