The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity: (Cw 4) by Rudolf Steiner
Publisher Comments Now what kind of approach by the reader did THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY count on? It had to assume a special way of reading. It expected the reader, as he read, to undergo the sort of inner experience that, in an external sense, is really just waking up out of sleep in the morning. The feeling one should have about it is such as to make one say, My relationship to the world in passive thoughts was, on a higher level, that of a person who lies asleep. Now I am waking up. It is like knowing, at the moment of awakening, that one has been lying passively in bed, letting nature have her way with one's body. But then one begins to be inwardly active. One relates one's senses actively to what is going on in the color permeated, sounding world about one. One links one's own bodily activity to one's intentions. The reader of The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity should experience something very like this waking moment of transition from passivity to activity, though of course on a higher level. He should be able to say, Yes, I have certainly thought thoughts before. But my thinking took the form of just letting thoughts flow and carry me along. Now, little by little, I am beginning to be inwardly active in them. - from Rudolf Steiner's AWAKENING TO COMMUNITY Your price $17.95 New Trade Paperback
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The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity: Some Results of Spiritual-Scientific Research Into Human History and Development (Cw 15) by Rudolf Steiner
Synopsis Steiner begins this work by pointing to our awareness of a second self that guides us through life. It guides us as infants and children as we attain vertical balance in space, learn to communicate in community, and begin to think in the world. Through this initial wisdom (which is still connected to the spiritual hierarchies) we enter the physical realm and then, as we grow, we exchange it for self-awareness and memory.
What--or who--is this wisdom? Steiner suggests that it is connected with the "higher self" of humankind that lived in Jesus between his baptism and the Crucifixion. Even if there were no Gospels to tell us of the Christ, we can know of it through human nature. Looking within ourselves and at human history, we are able to understand the spiritual guidance of humanity and human beings. Christ's sacrifice for humanity is only part of the cosmic, spiritual participation of beings of every level and kind in human evolution.
Steiner's written works differ from his lectures in their directness, depth, and ramifications, and it was rare for him to take time from his busy schedule to rewrite any of his numerous lectures for publication. However, Steiner considered these lectures essential and important for our understanding of the foundations of spiritual science.
This volume is a translation of Die geistige Fuhrung des Menschen und der Menschheit (GA 15). Your price $16.95 New Trade Paperback
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Renewal Of The Social Organism by Rudolf Steiner
Publisher Comments Culture, politics, economics -- these are the three core activities of society. Social health depends on the harmonious interworking of these three activities, which, Steiner says, is possible only if they are sufficiently autonomous so each can find its own essential character. In his foreword, Joseph Weizenbaum observes that the framers of the U.S. Constitution understood this, at least in part, when they developed the constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state. These essays cover a range of issues with special attention to money, the division of labor, human motivation, and education. They offer refreshing insights into the nature of modern society as well as guidance for solving today's pressing social problems. Trade Paperback
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Anthroposophy (a Fragment): A New Foundation for the Study of Human Nature (Cw 45) by Rudolf Steiner
Publisher Comments This text, outlining a new methodology for the study of human nature, dates from 1910 and was found after Rudolf Steiner's death among his unpublished papers. Steiner had dealt with the same theme earlier in lectures. Asked for a written version, he tried to write down what he had said, but found himself unable to do so-the language would not completely relinquish the words. Nevertheless, what he was able to put down remains a major intellectual and spiritual accomplishment of the twentieth century.Steiner presents anthroposophy, which lies between anthropology and theosophy, as a way of studying the human being. Where anthropology studies the human being on the basis of the senses-i.e. by observation within the limits of the scientific method-theosophy recognizes the human as a spiritual being on the basis of inner experience and seeks to understand what it means to be human in a spiritual world. Between these two approaches-basically those of science and religion-lies anthroposophy, which seeks to study human beings as they present themselves to physical observation, while at the same time seeking to derive indications of the spiritual foundations of phenomena by a process of phenomenological intensification.The results of such phenomenological intensification, though fragmentary and incomplete, are of enormous importance. They constitute the first steps toward a truly cognitive psychology, one that demonstrates the richness of the phenomenological approach to the human being as a sensory organism. Starting from there, Steiner unfolds the seven life processes, the nature of I-experience, the meaning of the human form, and its complex relation to higher spiritual worlds. This is a key work, whose time has truly arrived. Your price $24.95 New Trade Paperback
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The Gospel of St. John: (Cw 103) by Rudolf Steiner
Synopsis Steiner here lays the foundation for a new Christology out of his insights into the Gospel of St. John. He says it is not a book of instruction but a force that can become active within our souls. As Marie Steiner says in her introduction, "With this book we penetrate into the innermost structure of Rudolf Steiner's activities. For all his endeavors had this one goal -- to pave for the world the way to Christ." Your price $19.95 New Trade Paperback
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The Gospel of St. Mark: (Cw 139) by Rudolf Steiner
Synopsis The Mark Gospel reveals Christ as a Cosmic Being, giving us a sense of his greatness and power. In this lecture cycle, Steiner helps us grasp this aspect of Christ, and, like the Gospel itself, it is an artistic work in its own right.
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Background to the Gospel of St. Mark: (Cw 124) by Rudolf Steiner
Publisher Comments These lectures constitute an important chapter in Steiner's commentary on Christianity. They stress the relationship of the Gospel of Mark to the "language of the macrocosm" and cover such topics as the two main streams of post-Atlantean civilization, the tasks of our epoch, the laws of rhythm in the domain of soul and spirit, and much more. Trade Paperback
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The Principle of Spiritual Economy: In Connection with Questions of Reincarnation: An Aspect of the Spiritual Guidance of Man (Cw 109) by Rudolf Steiner
Publisher Comments These four lectures reveal one aspect of how humanity has been guided spiritually throughout history: the etheric and astral bodies of great initiates and avatars were preserved, duplicated, and woven into leading personalities of history. Steiner gives numerous examples of this process, but says that such inspired people are now a rarity. We have, however, the possibility to elevate ourselves in future times to where we can receive into ourselves the Christ-Ego. This, indeed, is humanity's greatest goal. This volume along with Rosicrucian Esotericism completes the bulk of the German volume GA 109. Your price $18.95 New Trade Paperback
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The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path: (Cw 154) by Rudolf Steiner
Synopsis What is the relationship between those who have died and those who remain alive on earth? Can we help those now in the spiritual world? Can they help us? In these talks, Rudolf Steiner deals with the spiritual relationships that the living can have with those who have crossed over the threshold between life and death. In a realistic, practical way, he shows how an understanding of our spiritual nature reveals ways of knowing a world undreamed of by materialists. The tone of these talks is warm and moving, clearly drawn from Steiner's own experience and the lives of those who had died and who were personally known to him -- Robert Hamerling, Christian Morgenstern, and others. This is an important work for those who are coming to terms with the death of a love one. 7 lectures, various cities, April 17 - May 26, 1914.
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