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"Occult events that took place between the Christ and the community
of his disciples form a significant part not only of the four
Gospels but also of the Christ Mystery or Golgotha Mystery itself.
Today, many human souls are still moved by this apostolic
community, by how the disciples accompanied Christ Jesus, by their
place in history (as an esoteric circle charged with an exoteric
task), by their failures, and by the great new dawn that showed
them the way after Pentecost...For three years, they were close to
Christ, shared his life, and received a great deal of instruction
from him, often in their own intimate circle away from public view.
They were there when Christ performed healings and even when he
prayed.... "Rudolf Steiner once said that we in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries must live with the 'etheric Christ' in the
Earth's aura in the same way that 'the disciples once lived with
Christ Jesus on the physical plane.' If this is so, it is essential
for us to focus on the community of Christ's disciples. Rudolf
Steiner himself made major contributions to illuminating the depths
of the disciples' relationship and life with the Christ, both
during the three years of his earthly life and after the
Resurrection. An essential element of Steiner's life work was to
apply 'anthroposophically oriented cognition' to events of the
beginning of the Christian era in order to 'bring the Gospels'
deeper content to the light of day.' He spoke in detail about the
Christ's community of disciples in many lecture cycles, and, in his
lectures on the Fifth Gospel, he shed light on this community from
the perspective of the processes of human consciousness that were
intimately involved in events at the beginning of the new era and
inscribed in the chronicle of evolution.... "In his lectures on the
Fifth Gospel and elsewhere, Rudolf Steiner opened up many
perspectives that help us understand what took place between Christ
and his disciples. This book's purpose is to make those
perspectives available and accessible. Although all of Steiner's
statements have been published, they are widely scattered among his
lectures and remain unknown to many individuals deeply committed to
the community of Christ's disciples and to anthroposophical
Christology. In view of the challenges to consciousness we face in
modern times-including those that deal with Christianity and the
Christ Event itself-it seems urgently important to present details
of the positive and often illuminating results of Rudolf Steiner's
research." As is true of other works by Peter Selg, Christ and the
Disciples is one of those books that sharpens the reader's mind to
cut through the myriad of representation (and misrepresentations)
of Rudolf Steiner's teachings, clarifying many otherwise-knotty
issues.
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Agriculture (Paperback)
Rudolf Steiner; Translated by Catherine E. Creeger, Malcolm Gardner
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Discovery Miles 6 590
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In this remarkable series of lectures, delivered in 1924, Rudolf
Steiner first laid down the principles of biodynamic agriculture.
Each lecture contains fascinating insights into farming, the plant
and animal world, the nature of organic chemistry and the
influences of the heavenly bodies. The discussions which followed
are also recorded, in which Steiner answered questions and engaged
in debate with the audience. This edition comes with full editorial
notes and appendices, and includes Steiner's own handwritten notes
to the series.
This book tells the story of how Suzanne, a young teacher at a
Waldorf school, copes with the changes her class is going through
at the transition from childhood to adolescence. The problems she
and the parents of her students must face are familiar to all
parents of teens: drug use, smoking, apathy, rebelliousness,
moodiness, to name only a few. We accompany Suzanne in her sincere
struggle to help her students as she talks to other faculty members
and to help parents and then adapts her teaching to the students'
changed needs. Suzanne learns much from an older mentor, whose
advice and guidance are based on Rudolf Steiner's spiritual
science, and so do we. The anthroposophical perspective gives
adolescence a new, more meaningful face. Understanding it as part
of our destiny and our development toward individuality will help
us guide our young people as they take the first uncertain steps on
the road to independence. Hermann Koepke, a Swiss Waldorf teacher
of many years experience, is well known in Europe. He is also the
author of Encountering the Self: Transformation and Destiny in the
Ninth Year.
The healthy social life is found When in the mirror of each human
being The whole community finds its reflection And when in the
community The virtue of each one is living. From the beginning of
his public work, Rudolf Steiner saw his spiritual mission as
civilizational. He understood that individual spiritual development
means little unless, spreading through a community of
practitioners, it leads to larger societal and cultural
transformation. As always, his views were radical. He realized that
a healthy social life would depend, above all, on the
transformation of work from a commodity into a gift. As he said in
1905: Evolution is moving towards totally uncompensated work. No
one rejects the idea and no one can change it. Whereas Greek
workers performed their work in bondage to their master and modern
workers are compelled to work for pay, in the future all work will
be performed freely. Work and income will be completely separated.
That is the healthy state of social conditions in the future. That
same year, he formulated what he called "the fundamental social
law" The wellbeing of an entire group of individuals who work
together becomes greater the less individuals claim the income
resulting from their own accomplishments for themselves-that is,
the more they contribute this income to their fellow workers, and
the more their own needs are met not through their own efforts but
through the efforts of others. In this important book, Peter Selg
shows us a different Rudolf Steiner. Here, the emphasis of his
teaching is mostly on the need to cultivate selflessness and
readiness to sacrifice. Selg first describes the context in which
Steiner expressed these ideas, how much they meant to him, and how,
when they fell on barren ground, he selflessly laid them aside
while holding them in his heart in the hope of a more opportune
moment. He goes on to show how this moment came after World War I,
when Rudolf Steiner dedicated himself tirelessly to the Threefold
Social Organism, lecturing extensively on economics and social
policy. Finally, in a last, extraordinarily moving chapter, Selg
shows the essential Christ- and Gospel-inspired nature of these
ideas: As long as you feel pain That passes me by, The Christ works
unrecognized... Weak is the spirit That can feel suffering Only in
its own body. Anyone interested in a just, equitable, healthy, and
spirit-based social future should read this important book
Rudolf 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 complete cycle of four plays is reproduced here in the classic
translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch. The Four Plays: The Portal of
Initiation: A Rosicrucian Mystery, through Rudolf Steiner The
Soul's Probation: A Life Tableau in Dramatic Scenes As Sequel to
the Portal of Initiation, through Rudolf Steiner The Guardian of
the Threshold: Soul Events in Dramatic Scenes, by Rudolf Steiner
The Souls' Awakening: Soul and Spirit Events in Dramatic Scenes, by
Rudolf Steiner This volume is a translation of Vier Mysteriendramen
(vol. 14 of Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works).
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