Books by Rudolf Steiner

Containing all the correspondence between Rudolf and Marie Steiner to be found in their respective estates, this volume provides unique insight into the couple's pivotal relationship.

Rudolf Steiner urges those who feel the calling of the Archangel Michael to become people of initiative. The anthroposophist should be aware that, `... initiative lies in his karma, and much of what meets him in this life will depend on the extent to which he can become willingly, actively conscious of it.'

The focus of these eight lectures is the source of movement and gesture in the human being. The movement in musical experience is thus traced back to its origin in the human instrument itself. Like the degrees of the musical scale...

À travers 8 méditations, le philosophe Rudolf Steiner propose ici un nouveau chemin vers la Connaissance de Soi....un chemin vers la Liberté.Les deux principes fondamentaux de la théosophie sont la croyance dans la réincarnation et la loi de Karma.La première enseigne qu'après la mort, notre âme renaît dans des corps successifs, en s'améliorant jusqu'à la perfection.La loi de Karma affirme que toute action bonne ou mauvaise entraîne une réaction proportionnée, dans cette vie ou dans une autre.Ces méditations portent sur :- la représentation des corps physique, éthérique, astral et du moi - La connaissance clairvoyante du monde élémentaire - La rencontre avec le Gardien du seuil- La nature des expériences faites dans les mondes supérieurs - Le méditant essaie de se former une représentation de la succession des vies terrestres.

Pour Rudolf Steiner, comme pour les anthroposophes et comme pour d'autres cultures, la mort est avant tout une naissance dans une autre forme d'existence, un processus qui procède d'un déroulement spécifique qui se déroule en plusieurs étapes. Les conférences de Rudolf Steiner réunies ici ouvrent en grand les portes de la naissance et de la mort. Elles s'adressent à ceux qui veulent comprendre ce qu'est la mort et ce qui se passe après. Selon son habitude, Rudolf Steiner engage ses lecteurs à penser par eux-mêmes et tous ses écrits sur le sujet de la mort et de l'après-vie consisteront à prodiguer des conseils pour les morts à l'usage des vivants. Thèmes principaux abordés par cet ouvrage :- La mort et le parcours de l'âme humaine après la mort - Le sommeil et la mort - Entre la mort et une nouvelle naissance - Comment apprendre à vivre avec les morts ? - La mort, métamorphose de la vie.

Lectures on psychotherapy from the perspective of anthroposophy

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Il mio compito, in questo ciclo di conferenze, sar? di gettare un ponte tra fatti relativamente consueti, tra esperienze che l'uomo pu? incontrare nella vita d'ogni giorno, e gli interessi supremi dell'umanit?. Cos? ci si aprir? un'altra delle vie che, dalla vita quotidiana, conducono a ci? che pu? essere per noi, per la nostra anima e il nostro spirito. Noi sappiamo che l'Antroposofia, quanto pi? ci approfondiamo in ci? che essa pu? darci, penetra nel nostro sentire, nel nostro volere, nelle forze di cui abbisogniamo per mostrarci idonei ad affrontare le molteplici vicende della vita. E sappiamo inoltre che cos? come possiamo sperimentarla ora, grazie agli influssi che appunto in quest'epoca giungono a noi dai mondi superiori, l'Antroposofia rappresenta in certo modo una necessit? per l'umanit? contemporanea. Sappiamo che in un tempo relativamente breve il genere umano dovrebbe perdere ogni sicurezza, ogni interiore tranquillit? se la rivelazione che chiamiamo Antroposofia non giungesse a quest'umanit?..

Rudolf Steiner's superb thesis provides deep insight into spiritual science, and the history of mankind as viewed through the philosophy of the anthroposophy movement he founded.An Outline of Esoteric Science attempts to reconcile mankind's spiritual being with the scientific exactitude which had emerged among scholars in the 19th century. Steiner lays out the spiritual realms which are invisible to us, attempting to use a defined precision similar to that which had emerged in science.In the final section, this book refers to the spiritual development and contemplation necessary for individuals to see the spiritual realms and planes which comprise existence and the universe. The means by which individuals may train themselves introspectively to see are detailed by Steiner, whose theosophical philosophy was, by the time of this book's publication in 1909, well-developed.

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These six lectures, collected in one volume, may be the best overview ever written on what karma is and how it works. In the first lecture, Steiner presents the various universal laws that exist, so one may gain an understanding of how karma fits in and relates to them. Once the reader is prepared for an explanation of human destiny and our place in creation, lecture two moves forward and covers this nicely. The third lecture shows how our use of freedom works with karma, plus where we go between lives and what that is like. The fourth lecture reveals how karma appears and develops in one's life. It covers how we come into this world prepared to use it, including the fact that we have, hidden within us, a karmic impulse that may direct our future path. Talk five covers the inner influences we have that effect karma, both mental and physical in nature, and how people often fail to understand how cause and effect works on the inner levels. The final lecture outlines the essential nature of the human being in great detail. It presents a three-fold hierarchy using conscious and unconscious elements, which explains how karma is experienced, generated and used. This book is a must for anyone who wants to gain a complete understanding of karma and how it works.

Rudolf Steiner's superb thesis provides deep insight into spiritual science, and the history of mankind as viewed through the philosophy of the anthroposophy movement he founded.An Outline of Esoteric Science attempts to reconcile mankind's spiritual being with the scientific exactitude which had emerged among scholars in the 19th century. Steiner lays out the spiritual realms which are invisible to us, attempting to use a defined precision similar to that which had emerged in science.In the final section, this book refers to the spiritual development and contemplation necessary for individuals to see the spiritual realms and planes which comprise existence and the universe. The means by which individuals may train themselves introspectively to see are detailed by Steiner, whose theosophical philosophy was, by the time of this book's publication in 1909, well-developed.

This work is a powerful argument for Christianity as a religion of mystical initiation and the only religion in which the eternal wisdom, the Logos, was made flesh - in Christ. Moreover, unlike the adepts of old, Jesus was "…the initiator of the whole of humanity, and humanity was to be his own community of Mystics." From an early age Austrian-born Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), a respected scholar, felt the reality of the spiritual world and devoted much of his life to proving this assumption by "…introspective observation following the methods of Natural Science." In Christianity as Mystical Fact, Dr. Steiner looks at mysticism within Christianity and also its source in pre-Christian times - the priest sages of the Egyptian mystical schools and Greece's famous initiates such as Solon, Aristides and Plato. He argues that the spiritual claims of Christianity cannot be proved by a literal historical approach to the bible. Rather, it is only through mystical enlightenment or "gnosis" that Christianity's spiritual message can be truly known and this experience, according to Steiner, is no less an empirical fact than those of orthodox science. He looks at the New Testament with the eyes of a mystic and finds a whole other layer of meaning there - for example, in the Lazarus miracle, which he describes as a spiritual initiation, "… the point of transition from lower to higher knowledge."

Cos" lÕintroduzione del Vangelo di Giovanni ? diventata qualcosa di molto difficile per i teologi, tinti di materialismo. La dottrina del Logos o del Verbo ha recato grandi difficolt¿ alla gente. Essi dicono: ÇCi piacerebbe che tutto fosse semplice e ingenuo. Ed ecco questo Vangelo di Giovanni che viene a parlarci di cose filosofiche cos" alte, del Logos, della Vita, della Luce!È Le prime parole del Vangelo di Giovanni penetrano veramente subito nei pi? profondi misteri del mondo. Queste si vede, se lasciamo che le verit¿ della scienza dello Spirito, che di esse costituiscono la base, si affaccino allÕanima nostra; e dovremo attingere profondamente alla conoscenza spirituale, se vogliamo che queste prime parole del Vangelo si rivelino a noi nella loro giusta luce.

Chi si limita alla conoscenza del mondo sensibile non pü immaginarsi quanto differissero da noi i nostri progenitori dell'Atlantide; e non soltanto nell'aspetto esteriore, ma anche nelle qualit¿ dello spirito. Le loro cognizioni, le arti tecniche, tutta la loro cultura era ben diversa da quella dei nostri giorni. Osservando l'umanit¿ atlantica dei primi tempi, vi troviamo facolt¿ spirituali diverse in tutto dalle nostre. L'intelletto razionale, la facolt¿ di combinare e di calcolare sulla quale oggi ? basato tutto ci¿ che si produce, mancavano interamente ai primi Atlanti. Dobbiamo chiarirci che, ogni qualvolta in un essere si sviluppa una nuova facolt¿, un'altra perde di forza e d'acutezza. L'uomo odierno possiede, di fronte a quello dell'Atlantide, l'intelletto razionale e la facolt¿ combinativa; la memoria invece ? venuta meno.

`It is a cosmic law that what has once taken place can never vanish, but must reappear later in a metamorphosed form. Every thought, feeling and action brought about by man does not only affect the world around him but will re-appear in the future...' (From the Preface)

The concept of Intuition is fundamental to Rudolf Steiner's spiritual philosophy. It denotes a clear, pure mode of comprehension akin to a mathematical concept. We meet it in his earliest writings on Goethe, in the development of his philosophical ideas and in his many lectures and addresses.

This anthology offers a survey of the diverse aspects of Imagination and imaginative cognition. As the thematically re-ordered texts reveal, Rudolf Steiner's spiritual philosophy - anthroposophy - is itself often pictorial and imaginative in nature.

"Why does the Guardian of the Threshold stand there? The Guardian of the Threshold stands there because true knowledge can be achieved only when we approach it with the right, well-prepared, inward attitude of mind and a genuine desire for knowledge. There is nothing theoretical about truly striving for knowledge. True striving for knowledge is achieved only when the soul lifts itself above all that is offered by the sensory world."--Rudolf Steiner (April 3, 1924)This volume supplements Rudolf Steiner's First Class Lessons and Mantras: The Michael School Meditative Path in Nineteen Steps (2017). It contains the so-called recapitulation lessons given in various places, including Dornach, from April 3 to September 20, 1924. While the book does not introduce any new mantras, it offers new forms of presenting and explaining many of them. This supplemental volume presents a real discovery--two recapitulation lessons given in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), on June 12 and 13, 1924. The lessons were discovered only recently in the archive of Eugen and Lili Kolisko. The lessons (first published in German by Perseus Basel in 2016) were written in shorthand and deciphered by Elea Gradenwitz, published here in English for the first time, with the kind permission of Andrew Clunies-Ross, grandson of the Koliskos. Attentive readers will find in these Breslau lessons a discussion of the Guardian of the Threshold not found in any other lessons. The commentary in this volume by the editor T. H. Meyer sheds light on two striking modifications in the lessons. First is the introduction of Rudolf Steiner's Michael and Rosicrucian signs. Second is the new function assigned to Ita Wegman following Rudolf Steiner's return from England at the end of August 1924. Both actions were motivated by, as Steiner called it, a "betrayal" of the mantras that occurred in London.The classes were originally published in German in Esoterische Unterwiegungen für die Angehörigen and der ersten Klasse der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft am Goetheanum 1924 (4 vols.), Dornach 1992 (GA 270). This book was originally published by Perseus Verlag in Basel, Switzerland, with the title Der Meditationsweg der Michaelschule: Ergänzungsband: Die Wiederholungsstunden in Prag, Bern, Breslau, London und Dornach, 2016

In this carefully assembled anthology of Steiner's lectures and writing, Stephen E. Usher gathers key concepts and insights to form a coherent picture of social threefolding.

Matthew Barton has translated and selected Steiner's verses, sensitively arranging them by theme. In this collection of meditations for times of day and seasons of the year, Rudolf Steiner delves into the rhythms of nature and their relationship to human beings.

Matthew Barton has translated and selected Steiner's verses, sensitively arranging them by theme. In this collection - to promote courage and tranquility - Rudolf Steiner highlights the balancing, harmonizing forces of the heart, which are so much under attack in our cerebral culture.

8 lectures in Dornach, January 4-13, 1918 & December 24, 1920.

`And that is one thing we need to relearn, that all of life brings its gifts - not only the first two or three decades.' - Rudolf Steiner