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'Whether souls have returned in physical incarnations as
Platonists, as Aristotelians, as pupils of Chartres, as members of
the Dominican Order, as Templars, as Cathars, or whether these
souls accompany us as spiritual beings, a stream of spiritual
continuity that begins in the Middle Ages flows through human
history.'- Manfred Schmidt-Brabant. Why do people today look back
to the Middle Ages with such interest? Do those times have anything
to do with the present? In this enlightening series of lectures,
Manfred Schmidt-Brabant and Virginia Sease suggest that our sense
of selfhood depends on whether we can create a true relationship to
the present age. But to do this we need to understand the spiritual
roots of our time. These roots, they indicate, are present in the
Middle Ages.The impulses that originate from that time continue to
stream into modern times, helping to determine our thinking,
feeling and actions. Even the biography of Europe is largely
determined by what people of the Middle Ages thought, endured,
believed and fought over. All of this emerges today in the
consciousness of the individual and in the fabric of our
communities. To aid our comprehension of this critical period, the
authors embark on a broad historical survey of the culture and
history - both exoteric and esoteric - of the Middle Ages. Their
journey takes in King Arthur and the Celtic Mysteries; Francis of
Assisi, the Franciscans and the School of Chartres; Thomas Aquinas,
Averroes and the Dominicans; Cabbala and Jewish Mysticism; heretics
and the Cathars; Templar secrets; spiritual Alchemy and Gothic
architecture; Columbus and the Mysteries of America; and, the
Consciousness Soul and the historical Figure of Faust.
In two related studies, Peter Selg tracks the groundbreaking of
first Goetheanum from September 20, 1913, in the context of the
so-called Michael movement, the primary active pulse brought by
Rudolf Steiner in 1924 that explicitly indicates the anthroposophic
movement and its formal society. The author shows the fundamental
importance of this beginning in Dornach. He illuminates the fateful
goal of the "School of Spiritual Science" with Rudolf Steiner's
karma lectures, not only providentially in sense that it involved
individualities, but also with regard to the future progress 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 by
Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, 2013.
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