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Youth and the Etheric Heart - Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the Younger Generation (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner Youth and the Etheric Heart - Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the Younger Generation (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Becoming Fully Human - The Significance of Anthroposophy in Contemporary Spiritual Life (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner Becoming Fully Human - The Significance of Anthroposophy in Contemporary Spiritual Life (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner
R740 R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Save R38 (5%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Imagining the East - The Early Theosophical Society (Hardcover): Tim Rudbog, Erik Sand Imagining the East - The Early Theosophical Society (Hardcover)
Tim Rudbog, Erik Sand
R3,139 Discovery Miles 31 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influential role in shaping the alternative new religious and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century, especially as an early promoter of interest in Indian and Tibetan religions and philosophies. Despite this increasing awareness, many of the central questions relating to the early Theosophical Society and the East remain largely unexplored. This book is the first scholarly anthology dedicated to this topic. It offers many new details about the study of Theosophy in the history of modern religions and Western esotericism. The essays in Imagining the East explore how Theosophists during the formative period understood the East and those of its people with whom they came into contact. The authors examine the relationship of the theosophical approach with orientalism and aspects of the history of ideas, politics, and culture at large and discuss how these esoteric or theosophical representations mirrored conditions and values current in nineteenth-century mainstream intellectual culture. The essays also look at how the early Theosophical Society's imagining of the East differed from mainstream 'orientalism' and how the Theosophical Society's mission in India was distinct from that of British colonialism and Christian missionaries.

Manual to Surrender Entirely to Young Virgin Mary - (English, Italiano, Espanol E Francais) (Paperback): William Menezes Freitas Manual to Surrender Entirely to Young Virgin Mary - (English, Italiano, Espanol E Francais) (Paperback)
William Menezes Freitas
R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Sophia Mystery in Our Time - The Birth of Imagination (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Mario Betti The Sophia Mystery in Our Time - The Birth of Imagination (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Mario Betti; Translated by Pauline Wehrle
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'The confrontation with evil manifests as a battle taking place on many levels, the outcome of which lies in the hands of each one of us alive today. The most important requisite is the creating of a space within us in which a new consciousness, the Imagination, will gradually be able to arise. Much in the future depends on whether a sufficient number of people succeed in reaching this level of experience...' - Maria Betti With the world in turmoil, the greatest challenge facing us today, says Mario Betti, is the inner transformation of our entire being. This rebirth from within heralds a new form of consciousness - a creative imaginative faculty - that is simultaneously a reawakening of the mysterious Sophia, the feminine aspect of the Divinity. Imagination allows us to behold the spiritual forces actively at work in the world, resulting in the possibility of a comprehensive rebirth and renewal of culture.

Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner; Translated by P. Wehrle
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'By bringing the chosen leaders, prophets or priests to confront the powers of life and death, to discover the deeper needs and potential of the human spirit, the Mysteries had kept humanity in touch with the living foundations of experience. For those who went through their processes, the attainment of wisdom was the culmination of an existential struggle...' - Dr Andrew Welburn Modern scholarship knows little of the mystery schools of antiquity, offering only hypothetical explanations and external details. In these expansive lectures based on his personal spiritual insights, Rudolf Steiner offers a vivid description of the esoteric experiences gained by people in the ancient mystery schools, from the mysteries of Artemis in Ephesus, of Hibernia, Eleusis and Samothrace, to the Middle Ages. He also discusses the conditions under which initiation can be achieved today. Following preliminary lectures on the nature and function of the soul, Steiner presents a panoramic view of human and earthly evolution, including the roles of plants and animals. He also discusses the various metals, their curative properties and their connections with the planets.

Out of Many, No Gods - Narratives from Jamaican Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, & Freethinkers (Paperback): Clive Forrester,... Out of Many, No Gods - Narratives from Jamaican Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, & Freethinkers (Paperback)
Clive Forrester, Hilaire Sobers; Clive Forrester
R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond the Boundaries of Belief - Selected Short Secular Essays (Paperback): Chris Highland Beyond the Boundaries of Belief - Selected Short Secular Essays (Paperback)
Chris Highland
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rethinking Jesus - When the Walk Fails the Talk (Paperback): Dennis R Blue Rethinking Jesus - When the Walk Fails the Talk (Paperback)
Dennis R Blue
R321 R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Save R18 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ita Wegman and Anthroposophy - A Conversation with Emanuel Zeylmans (Paperback): Wolfgang Weirauch Ita Wegman and Anthroposophy - A Conversation with Emanuel Zeylmans (Paperback)
Wolfgang Weirauch; Translated by Matthew Barton
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 a historical documentation of what happened. - Emanuel Zeylmans Following the re-founding 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 after her death, kept alive by prejudice and untruths that created an atmosphere that made a clear and unbiased view of her role in Anthroposophy impossible. Because no real biography existed, even the open-minded and impartial found it difficult to make an informed judgment. This lack was filled by Emanuel Zeylmans' three-volume work, Who Was Ita Wegman? To write it, he researched 100 undated notebooks, 2,000 manuscript pages, and 6,000 letters. Sifting through these was an enormous labor. To reach the esoteric heart of "the Wegman question" took him twelve years. What he found was extraordinary and of paramount importance to anyone interested in Anthroposophy and the divisive karma of its history. In Ita Wegman and Anthroposophy, Wolfgang Weirauch of the German journal Flensburger Heft interviews Emanuel Zeylmans. Speaking candidly about the deepest aspects of his revelatory findings, Zeylmans describes how his passionate need unfolded to understand what happened both to Ita Wegman and Anthroposophy. He talks of meetings with those who knew her intimately. He tells of her collaboration with Rudolf Steiner and her fraught relations with Marie Steiner and Edith Maryon, both of whom also had special relationships with Steiner. He describes the Christmas Foundation Meeting and the conflicts that followed Steiner's death that led to Ita Wegman's expulsion from the Executive Council. Though this book will be of special interest to those who want to understand the history of the Anthroposophical Society, it would be a mistake to consider it a book about the past. It is a book about the future of Anthroposophy.

The Delusion of Hope - A Guide to a New Age (Paperback): S. F. Pfister The Delusion of Hope - A Guide to a New Age (Paperback)
S. F. Pfister
R838 R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Save R58 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Gnostics - Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (Paperback): David Brakke The Gnostics - Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (Paperback)
David Brakke
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church rejected Gnosticism? This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of "Gnosticism" and the nature of early Christian diversity. Acknowledging that the category "Gnosticism" is flawed and must be reformed, David Brakke argues for a more careful approach to gathering evidence for the ancient Christian movement known as the Gnostic school of thought. He shows how Gnostic myth and ritual addressed basic human concerns about alienation and meaning, offered a message of salvation in Jesus, and provided a way for people to regain knowledge of God, the ultimate source of their being. Rather than depicting the Gnostics as heretics or as the losers in the fight to define Christianity, Brakke argues that the Gnostics participated in an ongoing reinvention of Christianity, in which other Christians not only rejected their ideas but also adapted and transformed them. This book will challenge scholars to think in news ways, but it also provides an accessible introduction to the Gnostics and their fellow early Christians.

Results of Spiritual Research (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner Results of Spiritual Research (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner; Introduction by S. Blaxland-de Lange; Translated by S. Blaxland-de Lange
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In a previously-unavailable series of talks to the general public, Rudolf Steiner builds systematically, lecture by lecture, on the fundamentals of spiritual science - from the nature of spiritual knowledge and its relationship to conventional science, the path of personal development and the task of metaphysical research, to specific questions on the mystery of death, the meaning of fairy-tales, the significance of morality and the roles of individual figures in human evolution, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Jacob Boehme. At the time of these presentations, Steiner had already worked in Berlin for many years, and thus, '...could reckon with a regularly returning audience to whom what mattered was to enter ever more deeply into the areas of knowledge that were newly opening up to them' (Marie Steiner). As a consequence - and through 'a series of inter-connecting lectures whose themes are entwined with one another' - he was able to communicate a coherent and challenging spiritual perception of reality, based on his personal research. Presented here with notes, an index and an introduction by Simon Blaxland-de Lange, the 14 lectures include: 'How is Spiritual Science Refuted?'; 'On What Foundation is Spiritual Science Based'; 'The Tasks of Spiritual Research for both Present and Future'; 'Errors of Spiritual Research'; 'Results of Spiritual Research for Vital Questions and the Riddle of Death'; The World-Conception of a Cultural Researcher of the Present, Herman Grimm' and 'The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century'.

The Age Of Reason (Paperback): Thomas Paine The Age Of Reason (Paperback)
Thomas Paine
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform - Threefolding and other proposals (Paperback): Richard Masters Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform - Threefolding and other proposals (Paperback)
Richard Masters
R1,106 R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Save R93 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

How might we improve the way we organize society, so that human beings can live in greater peace, dignity and justice? Against a background of chronic discontent and social conflict around the globe, Richard Masters presents a comprehensive survey of Rudolf Steiner's work on societal reform, sifting through and summarizing the content of dozens of books, lectures and discussions. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) is not known today for his social thinking, but he wrote and spoke at length on such issues during and after WWI, engaging with audiences ranging from royalty, politicians and business owners to illiterate, dispossessed factory workers. Central to his ideas was his 'threefold' approach to politics, economics and culture, arguing that their roles should be clarified and the three spheres allowed to thrive independently. Drawing on the full range of source material - including much not yet available in English - the author reveals the continuing relevance of Steiner's work to our contemporary situation. With an emphasis on accessibility, he builds up the subject methodically, studying the main ideas from differing perspectives. He also provides candid reflections on the degree to which Steiner's proposals are still applicable to current policy and practice. Authoritative and yet jargon-free, Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform offers innovative and stimulating ideas for anyone concerned with the state of our world.

Agnosticism and Others Essays (Paperback): Edgar Fawcett Agnosticism and Others Essays (Paperback)
Edgar Fawcett
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Future of Ahriman and the Awakening of Souls - The Spirit-Presence of the Mystery Dramas (Paperback): Peter Selg The Future of Ahriman and the Awakening of Souls - The Spirit-Presence of the Mystery Dramas (Paperback)
Peter Selg; Translated by Paul King
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In 1919 Rudolf Steiner spoke about the future physical incarnation of the being of Ahriman. This would take place before 'a part' of the third millennium had passed, and was inevitable - but it was also necessary that people were aware of this event and recognized it, for earthly culture would be destroyed if the world were to fall completely to Ahriman. The situation we find ourselves in today shows Ahriman's unmistakable signature: the rapid destruction of nature, zoonotic diseases and pandemics, huge social inequalities, and the overall dominance of high finance. In this short book Peter Selg presents a timely overview of the challenges we face, beginning with a pithy and concise survey of Steiner's commentary on Ahriman's incarnation and the conditions that would characterize it. This is followed by a study of Ahriman's depiction in the mystery drama The Souls' Awakening. Steiner's remarkable personification of Ahriman on stage - portraying his strategies and activities - provides vital instruction for humanity. Selg concludes with an evaluation of 'the Battle for Human Intelligence' taking place in contemporary culture through materialistic ideas such as transhumanism. In their recent book Covid-19: The Great Reset, for example, Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret propose wholesale economic, geopolitical, environmental and technological revisions to society - ideas that need to be understood and confronted in human thought and consciousness. The Future of Ahriman is a crucial aid to comprehending our times.

The Age Of Mammon (Paperback): Emmanuel Onyemena The Age Of Mammon (Paperback)
Emmanuel Onyemena
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On Epidemics - Spiritual Perspectives (Paperback): Rudolf Steiner On Epidemics - Spiritual Perspectives (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner
R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'If we can bring nothing up out of ourselves except fear of the illnesses which surround us at the seat of an epidemic, and if we go to sleep at night filled with nothing but thoughts of this fear, then we create unconscious replicas, imaginations, which are drenched in fear. And this is an excellent method for nurturing bacteria...' - Rudolf Steiner Based on brief, pithy quotations from Rudolf Steiner's collected works, the 'spiritual perspectives' in this volume present core concepts on the subject of epidemics. These brief extracts do not claim to provide exhaustive treatment of the subject, but open up approaches to the complexity of Steiner's extraordinary world of ideas. Some readers will find these fragments sufficient stimulus in themselves, whilst others will use the source references as signposts towards deeper study and understanding.

How to Read The Federalist Papers and The Constitution of the United States - The Articles of Confederation, The Constitution... How to Read The Federalist Papers and The Constitution of the United States - The Articles of Confederation, The Constitution of Declaration, All Bill Of Rights & Amendments (Part 4) (Paperback)
Shimomura Lena
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gnostic Magic of the Runes - Gnosis, the Aeneid, and the Liberation of the Consciousness (Paperback): Samael Aun Weor Gnostic Magic of the Runes - Gnosis, the Aeneid, and the Liberation of the Consciousness (Paperback)
Samael Aun Weor
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The world has often heard of the adventures of the great heros such as Aeneas, Hercules, and Parsifal - but for the first time, the meaning of those famous stories is made clear. The founder of the modern Gnostic Movement provides a deeply spiritual and psychological exploration of the ancient symbols hidden in Virgil's Aeneid, Richard Wagner's Parsifal, and more. Excerpts from these tales are interwoven with a series of practical exercises from the ancient Nordic Runes that help the serious student awaken their consciousness so they too can enter into their own direct experience of the parallel universes that we have long forgotten. "The human being, or better if we say, the poor intellectual animal mistakenly called man, has his consciousness completely asleep. Therefore, he certainly is incapable of vividly experiencing that which is not of time, that which is the Reality. "To consciously work within the distinct parallel universes, to travel by will in a lucid, clear, and brilliant way through all of those supra-sensible regions, is only possible by transforming the sub-consciousness into consciousness. "A judo of the Spirit exists; we are referring to the Runic exercises. These are formidable in order to attain the awakening of the consciousness."

W. Wynn Westcott in Lucifer (Paperback): Erica Georgiades, Juliet Bates W. Wynn Westcott in Lucifer (Paperback)
Erica Georgiades, Juliet Bates; William Wynn Westcott
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Open for Dialogue - a Book of Agnostic Ideology (Paperback): Rabbi Avelino Open for Dialogue - a Book of Agnostic Ideology (Paperback)
Rabbi Avelino
R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Illustrated Calendar of the Soul - Meditations for the Yearly Cycle (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Rudolf Steiner The Illustrated Calendar of the Soul - Meditations for the Yearly Cycle (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Rudolf Steiner
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Rudolf Steiner's beautiful meditative verses for the yearly cycle have been used by countless people over the years. Their purpose is to awaken a feeling of unity with nature, and at the same time to stimulate a discovery of self. In listening to the changing language of the year and awakening a profound sympathy for it, we can in turn discover our own individual nature. Steiner's original and unique meditations facilitate this process, leading to a healthy feeling of being at one with the natural world. This edition features Anne Stockton's 52 celebrated and evocative paintings, which are a wonderful complement to Steiner's text. Steiner's words are newly translated for this edition by John Thomson.

The Path of the Soul After Death - The Community of the Living and the Dead as Witnessed by Rudolf Steiner in His Eulogies and... The Path of the Soul After Death - The Community of the Living and the Dead as Witnessed by Rudolf Steiner in His Eulogies and Farewell Addresses (Paperback)
Peter Selg; Translated by M. Saar
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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