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"This biography does not aim for completeness, but focuses on
Rudolf Steiner's being, intentions, and journey-aspects that must
not be obliterated by the many events, foundations, and people
involved with Anthroposophy.... It wants to convey (to quote Emil
Leinhas) 'the immense greatness and unique significance of this
individuality who radiates out over the centuries.'" -Peter Selg
(from the introduction) To acknowledge and understand Rudolf
Steiner's unique achievement and life's work, one must be able to
accept that the founder and spiritual researcher of Anthroposophy
was "a citizen of two worlds" the spiritual and the physical.
Anthroposophy teaches that this duality, rather than being a
quality reserved for special individualities, is inherent to human
nature. According to Rudolf Steiner, it is a central aspect of
being human, even in times when the suprasensory aspect of humanity
is eclipsed (for ordinary day consciousness) and almost eliminated
by certain civilizations. The interest in Rudolf Steiner's person
and essence, in his attitude toward life and work, will continue to
grow in the decades and centuries that lie ahead, both within and
outside the anthroposophical movement. It will take hold of
entirely different groups of people, including those who come with
spiritual questions or discover them in times of need. Rudolf
Steiner's work grew to be "one unique effort of bringing courage to
human beings" (Michael Bauer). This is the first of seven
comprehensive volumes on Rudolf Steiner's "being, intentions, and
journey." It presents Rudolf Steiner from childhood and youth
through his doctorate degree and up to the time of his work for the
Goethe Archives as editor of Goethe's scientific writings. By
considering his formative years in depth, we come to understand
better the roots and development of Rudolf Steiner's later
spiritual research and teachings.
Karl Koenig, the founder of Camphill, was a prolific lecturer and
writer on a wide range of subjects from anthroposophy and
Christology through social questions and curative education to
science and history. The Karl Koenig Archive are working on a
programme of publishing these works over the coming years. This is
the fourth book to be published in the series. In this remarkable
collection of Karl Koenig's letters and essays, Koenig considers
and discusses the fundamentals of special needs education. He shows
that there are three core aspects to a successful holistic
education and healing approach: firstly, a positive social
environment, which in the context of Camphill is achieved through
small family units of carers and children; secondly, that carers'
work is based on an insightful understanding of the nature and
potential of each individual child and disability; and thirdly that
medical treatment is imbued with courage to keep believing that the
impossible is possible.
The relationship between The Christian Community and the
Anthroposophical Society is complex and often misunderstood.
Christian Community priests work out of an understanding of
anthroposophy, and it was undoubtedly Steiner's theological lecture
courses which led to the formation of the movement. Nonetheless
questions remain, which Peter Selg examines closely in this unique
book. -- Steiner's work emphasises the importance of finding the
spiritual in everyday life. So why did he help found a 'Sunday
church'? -- In his lectures, Steiner spoke about a 'spiritual
communion' without physical matter. So why is there any need for a
sacramental communion with real bread and wine, as practiced in The
Christian Community? -- In a much-quoted lecture after the founding
of The Christian Community, Steiner said that anthroposophists
should have no need of the new religious movement. But on another
occasion he said he wished greatly that the movement should
succeed. How can these be understood and reconciled? This
long-overdue book is a significant exploration of Steiner's legacy
which should have far-reaching implications for mutual
understanding and cooperation between The Christian Community and
the wider anthroposophical world.
This book follows Karl Koenig's spiritual journey from his early
years to the end of his life. Through the words of his diaries, in
which his battles with health and his impatient temperament are
recorded with merciless honesty, we can follow his inner path that
led to profound insights into the nature of children with special
needs. His personal wrestlings and innate spirituality laid the
foundation for his work in the Camphill Schools and Villages.
Includes facsimile reproductions of some of Koenig's original diary
pages. About the Karl Koenig Archive: Karl Koenig, the founder of
Camphill, was a prolific lecturer and writer on a wide range of
subjects from anthroposophy and Christology through social
questions and curative education to science and history. The Karl
Koenig Archive are working on a programme of publishing these works
over the coming years.
'Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.' Rudolf Steiner
once called the Lord's Prayer the 'greatest initiation prayer', and
he spoke about it many times, also referring to it as the central
prayer of Christian experience. This book is, however, the first
time that all of Steiner's comments, accounts and perspectives have
been brought together in one place, presenting the full scope and
depth of his ideas. Along the way, Peter Selg reveals some
surprising insights into the spiritual history and mission of
Christianity.
Ita Wegman, born in 1876 to a Dutch family living in Indonesia,
first met Rudolf Steiner in Berlin in 1902 when she was 26 years
old. She studied medicine at the University of Zurich and in 1917,
following Steiner's indications, developed a treatment for cancer
using mistletoe. In 1921 she founded the first anthroposophical
medical clinic, in Arlesheim, Switzerland, followed in 1922 by the
Sonnenhof home for children with special needs. Karl Koenig first
met Wegman in 1927, and she quickly recognized his great potential,
as well as his weaknesses. She invited him to work at the Arlesheim
clinic as her assistant, and encouraged and advised him in his
medical work. This book includes the complete correspondence
between Koenig and Wegman.
Unlike other Christian creeds, the creed of The Christian Community
is not a statement of belief, but rather a series of assertions
that act as a path to a deeper understanding of Christianity. Peter
Selg offers an insightful and informative overview of how, in the
time leading up to the founding of The Christian Community nearly
one hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner formulated both the creed
itself and its founding principles. He also examines the history of
Christian creeds including the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed
and compares them to each other. Finally, he explores the ongoing
significance of the creed for The Christian Community today.
Since 2006, specialists, doctors, psychologists, and therapists of
Parzival-Zentrum Karlsruhe have taken part in emergency education
crisis interventions, carried out by the organization Friends of
Friends of Waldorf Education. They work with psychologically
traumatized children and young people in war zones and disaster
areas, including Lebanon, China, the Gaza Strip, Indonesia, Haiti,
Kyrgyzstan, and most recently in Japan following the tsunami there
and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Bernd Ruf, who heads
these operations, describes in his book in various ways the basics
of anthroposophically extended "emergency education," including the
anthroposophic understanding of trauma itself. In addition, he
describes processes and experiences, focusing on recent experiences
in Japan at the center of his descriptions. Educating Traumatized
Children offers much-needed insight into this little-known area of
education and healing for traumatized children and young people.
This book will be valuable not only for those working in areas of
disaster and armed conflict, but also for any teacher or parent who
is teaching or caring for a traumatized child.
Kaspar Hauser was a young man who appeared on the streets of
Nuremberg in Germany in the early nineteenth century. His innocence
and mysterious background captured the hearts of many at the time.
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Kaspar Hauser's birth. This
timely book draws together Karl Koenig's thoughts on the enigma of
Kaspar Hauser, as well as exploring Koenig's deep connection to the
young man. The book includes Koenig's essay 'The Story of Kaspar
Hauser', as well as essays from Peter Selg on 'Koenig, Wegman and
Kaspar Hauser' and Richard Steel on how Koenig spoke of Kaspar
Hauser in his diaries, notes and letters.
Edith Maryon (1872-1924) was a trained sculptor who worked
alongside Rudolf Steiner to create the unique sculpture of Christ
(the 'Representative of Humanity') at the Goetheanum in Dornach,
Switzerland. One of Steiner's closest collaborators, she was a
highly-valued colleague and esoteric pupil. As one of his dearest
friends, Maryon kept a busy and detailed correspondence with Rudolf
Steiner, in which he confided freely about his personal situation,
his lack of true colleagues, difficulties with lecture tours, and
the embattled public standing of anthroposophy. Almost invariably,
these letters emphasized Steiner's longing for the Dornach studio
and their shared work on the Christ statue. Maryon's early death,
aged 52 - following fifteen months of illness - shook Rudolf
Steiner to the core. He was to die himself less than a year later.
With this book, the author's central aim is to illuminate the
spiritual signature of Edith Maryon's relationship with Rudolf
Steiner and their mutual work in anthroposophy and on the sculpture
of Christ. Building on Rex Raab's (1993) biography, Peter Selg's
moving study features dozens of photos and facsimiles of letters,
utilizing previously unpublished sources from Edith Maryon's and
Ita Wegman's literary estates and the Rudolf Steiner Archive in
Dornach. -- The most essential and intrinsic quality of her soul
... was not a particular branch of human endeavour, not even art;
the most salient of her soul tendencies, her soul intentions, was
the striving for spirituality...' - Rudolf Steiner
From 2009 to 2010, Sergei Prokofiev and Peter Selg-two leading
authorities and spiritual researchers into the life and work of
Rudolf Steiner-gave a series of conferences on the Christological
foundations of Anthroposophy. Their aim was to show the power of
anthroposophic Christology. Consequently, they focused on key
turning points in Rudolf Steiner's exposition: his major work, An
Outline of Esoteric Science; the first Goetheanum; the Reappearance
of Christ in the etheric realm and the relationship of this event
to Rudolf Steiner's lectures on the Fifth Gospel; and the Christmas
Conference (1923-24) and the founding of the New Mysteries. The
lectures from the conferences (published as four booklets in
German) are collected here in a single volume. The Creative Power
of Anthroposophical Christology is essential reading for all those
who are interested in the true meaning and depth of Rudolf
Steiner's experience and understanding of Christ's deed on Golgotha
and his continuing presence among us and within Anthroposophy.
Why is it so difficult actually to understand and implement the
"intentions of the Christmas Conference" (in Rudolf Steiner's
words), which represent a very concrete answer to the
Anthroposophical Society's identity crisis'? - Peter Selg More than
100 years after its founding, the Anthroposophical Society faces
serious questions - some of an existential nature - regarding its
purpose and tasks in the present day. On 30 March 2012, in the
course of the Society's Annual General Meeting in Dornach, both
Sergei Prokofieff and Peter Selg gave lectures in which they
addressed difficult issues relating to the General Anthroposophical
Society and its global headquarters, the Goetheanum in Switzerland.
These lectures were met with a mixture of enthusiastic support and
stern disapproval. They are reproduced here in full - together with
supplementary material that helps broaden and deepen their themes -
in order for each and every interested individual to have access to
them. 'The intention of my lecture was to draw attention to the
fact that the recent development of the Goetheanum is no longer
heading in the right direction; rather, it is heading in a
direction that can be considered neither in the spirit intended by
Rudolf Steiner, nor of service to anthroposophy. Before it is too
late, this direction must be altered...Otherwise, the Goetheanum is
in danger of being degraded to spiritual "insignificance", and of
becoming a mere combination of museum and conference centre.' -
Sergei O. Prokofieff
"Every moral deed and every physical action in human life is
connected in the human heart. Only when we truly learn to
understand the configuration of he human heart will we find the
true fusion of these two parallel and independent phenomena: moral
events and physical events." -Rudolf Steiner Today we know very
little about the true nature of the human heart. Our knowledge
arises only from a materialistic or an emotional standpoint.
However, the human heart, as Rudolf Steiner knew and taught, is
both spiritual and physical-the place where body and soul come
together. It is the place of their unity. We have lost this
knowledge, yet it is integral to the Western understanding of what
gives humanity its vocation-our spiritual/physical, our
earthly/heavenly nature. In this astonishing and inspiring book,
Peter Selg focuses on the evolution of the spiritual understanding
of the heart as transmitted through Aristotle, the Gospels, and
Hebrew Scriptures to the Middle Ages, when, in the light of the
Mystery of Golgotha and its sacramental life, it was synthesized
and transformed by Thomas Aquinas, after whom, with the rise of
modern science it, was lost until Goethe began a process of
recovery and development that led to its complete renewal and
transformation in Rudolf Steiner. The Mystery of the Heart tells
this story in three parts. Part one, "The Anthropology of the Heart
in the Gospels," examines the spiritual anthropology of the heart
in the Gospels in the light of Ezekiel's prophetic saying: "I will
give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove
from you your heart of stone and give you a living heart of flesh."
Part two, "De Essentia et Motu Cordis," describes Aristotle's
understanding of the heart and its transformation and deepening in
Aquinas. Part three, "The Heart and the Fate of Humanity," examines
the spiritual-scientific view of the heart as developed in Rudolf
Steiner's teachings. Also included is an appendix containing
selected meditative verses and therapeutic meditations for the
heart.
From 1933 to 1935, Ita Wegman was confronted by both Nazi fascism
and internal crises in the General Anthroposophical Society. During
those years, she traveled to Palestine in the fall of 1934
following a grave illness that nearly ended with her death. Her
correspondence during this period, as well as her notes on the
trip, reveal the great biographical importance to her of these
travels and indeed the whole scope of her spiritual experiences in
1934. Ita Wegman had unambiguous perspectives and a uniquely clear
view of both the political threat and her social-spiritual task
during this period. There was, however, a radical change in her
inner stance toward the opposition, aggression, and defamation she
encountered within anthroposophic contexts in reaction to her
intense, purely motivated efforts. She tried to live and work in
true accord with her inner impulses and, ultimately, with Rudolf
Steiner's legacy, especially within the anthroposophic movement.
Doing so, she increasingly found her way to her own distinctive and
uncompromising path. The author reveals the general nature of those
three years-a period whose distinctive spiritual and Christological
task and dramatic dangers Rudolf Steiner had foreseen in 1923: "If
these men the Nazis] gain government power, I will no longer be
able to set foot on German soil." Ita Wegman's efforts in 1933 to
confront the dark powers of National Socialism and the convulsions
in Dornach, which she experienced firsthand, as well as her
subsequent illness and the clarity of her "Christological
conversion" in 1934 to '35, reveal a very specific, intrinsically
comprehensible and forward-looking quality whose spiritual
signature is clearly prefigured in Rudolf Steiner's
spiritual-scientific predictions. In this book, Peter Selg focuses
exclusively on Ita Wegman, her development, and her words, simply
presenting the processes she went through and, implicitly, their
extraordinary spiritual nature, without any attempt at
interpretation. This focus arises from the governing premise that
the mysteries of a great life such as that of Ita Wegman reveal
themselves in the details. Tracing the subtle steps in her life
allow us deeper insight into Ita Wegman's being. She herself wrote,
"In general meetings or gatherings, people always understood me
poorly because I lacked a smooth way of expressing myself. But
people of goodwill always understood what I meant." This book was
originally published in German as Geistiger Widerstand und
Uberwindung. Ita Wegman 1933-1935 by Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach,
Switzerland, 2005.
"Only in our time has it become possible once again to unlock the
sources of Rosicrucian wisdom and allow them to flow into the whole
of culture... Christian Rosenkreutz has always lived among us and
he is with us today too as the guide of spiritual life.... "The
spiritual stream related to Christian Rosenkreutz offers the most
potent assistance to those who strive to understand the Christ
impulse." -Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner spoke often of the
relationship of Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science to
Rosicrucianism, but he spoke less of the being of Christian
Rosenkreutz himself. As he said, "To speak of Christian Rosenkreutz
presumes a profound trust in the mysteries of the life of the
spirit-a trust or faith not in the person of Christian Rosenkreutz,
but in the mysteries of spiritual life." For Steiner, Christian
Rosenkreutz was active in at least three ways. First, as one of the
"great leaders of humanity," he worked to bring esoteric
spirituality into the modern world and to lead it into the future.
Second, as "the greatest teacher of Christianity" he worked to
bring to humanity true "heart knowledge" of Christ through the
continued unveiling of the Mystery of Golgotha in the etheric.
Third, as a concrete, particular individual being, Steiner had a
living, actual, personal relationship with him. As such, because of
our failure to understand, Steiner called him "a noble
martyr...who, through his way of working, endured, and will in
future endure, more than any other person. I say 'person, ' for the
suffering of Christ was the suffering of a god." In the first part
of this inspiring book-a work of devotion both to Rudolf Steiner
and to Christian Rosenkreutz-Peter Selg, as "The Great Servant of
Christ Jesus," gives a detailed, chronological, and fascinating
account of Steiner's portrayal and, as much as possible,
experiences of Christian Rosenkreutz. He shows how Steiner had
essentially two teachers: the Master Jesus (Zoroaster) and
Christian Rosenkreutz. Moreover, Selg shows how these two, with
Rudolf Steiner, unfolded spiritual science for our time. In the
second part, he shows how all this culminates, astonishingly and
miraculously, in the Michael School as it manifested in the First
Class. Rudolf Steiner and Christian Rosenkreutz concludes with an
appendix containing the text of the original (1614) Fama, or
"Announcement of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood." Anyone interested in
the esoteric foundations of Anthroposophy or in the true meaning of
Rosicrucianism will be find this book of great value.
Rudolf Steiner entrusted the Esoteric Section and the Mathematics
and Astronomy Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, to
Elisabeth Vreede (1879-1943) because of her special abilities. He
commented, "Miss. Vreede is one of the people who best understands
my lectures." Elisabeth Vreede was recognized as the "esoterically
educated" member of Steiner's governing body. Nevertheless, in 1935
she was stripped of all her positions at the Goetheanum in Dornach
and prevented from resuming them. Lili Kolisko wrote of her, "Dr.
Elisabeth Vreede was a member of the Executive Council whose
opinion was considered of very little or--one could almost say--no
importance." Herbert Hahn wrote to Elisabeth Vreede, "I feel we
must thank your loyal custodial task and your unfailing enthusiasm
for all of Anthroposophy for much, much more than we can grasp at
this time." This book--employing numerous, previously unpublished
documents dealing with tragic misunderstandings in the
anthroposophical movement--offers testimony to the greatness of
this singular individual. C O N T E N T S Foreword 1. "All of
Heaven seemed to be called down" (1879-1913): The Way to Rudolf
Steiner 2. "Dr. Steiner was very pleased with my lectures"
(1914-1923) Dornach 3. "Tested to the ultimate degree" (1924-1925):
The Christmas Conference and the Esoteric Executive Council 4.
"Executive Council's Idylls" (1925-1935): The Decade after Rudolf
Steiner's Death 5. "May soul live in this house" (1935-1943): The
Final Years Appendices: Elisabeth Vreede: The Christmas and Michael
Impulses: Lecture at the Opening of the Second Goetheanum, 1928
Elisabeth Vreede: Isis-Sophia, Christmas Essay, 1928 This book was
originally published in German as Elisabeth Vreede: 1879-1943
(Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, 2009).
Maria Krehbiel-Darmstadter (1892-1943), who was killed at
Auschwitz, was a highly gifted pupil of Rudolf Steiner and a member
of The Christian Community. Born into a Jewish family in Mannheim,
she was deported to Gurs camp in the Pyrenees on October 22, 1940,
where she survived harsh conditions and helped many of her fellow
inmates. Following temporary sick-leave (under police supervision)
in Limonest near Lyon, and a failed attempt to flee to Switzerland,
she was brought to Drancy transit camp near Paris before being
taken to Auschwitz. This book offers unique testimony of an
individual rooted in esoteric Christianity and Spiritual Science
who found sources of inner resistance during one of history's
darkest periods. As the portrait of a highly ethical and sorely
tried woman amid catastrophic conditions, it describes her
existential efforts to summon powers of concentration, meditation,
and dedication to others, showing how these continued to inform her
outlook and actions to the very end. Polish Jews in Drancy referred
to Maria Krehbiel-Darmstadter as Mere Maria. They experienced her
distinctive spirituality and personal qualities and a profound
religiosity that retained an inner connection with the Christian
sacramental world, even in the most desolate circumstances. From
Gurs to Auschwitwitz adds an important voice to literature on the
Holocost and shines a light on the nature of spiritual, inner
resistance during the dark years of World War II in Europe.
Ita Wegman spent the last three years of her life in Tessin, in the
Casa Andrea Cristoforo. In this secluded province, largely
protected from the destructive events of those years and imbued
with certain forces, she developed a great work for the future,
gathering, leading, and nurturing people both therapeutically and
spiritually, preparing for the war's end with the full intensity of
her being. Her last three years were a period of devotion to Rudolf
Steiner and his work, as well as to esoteric Christianity-to the
forces of the Archangel Michael and to Christ for the present and
future. She continued to take a great interest in the difficulties
of her time and never ceased to participate in events-taking in
refugee children and the homeless, keeping up extensive
correspondences with others, struggling with aid organizations and
various agencies, caring daily for the afflicted and for patients
and colleagues. On March 4, 1943, Ita Wegman passed into the
spiritual worlds, well prepared and with all of the spiritual
intentions of a Christian initiate. This book contributes to
documenting the final phase of Ita Wegman's life, focusing on the
forces of the future that emerged in her. It draws on her notebooks
from her time in Ascona, as well as from her extensive
correspondence and memories of those who lived and worked at Casa
Andrea Cristoforo. She remained upstanding, free, and positive with
an esoteric Christian orientation and felt that she was obligated
only to her conscience and to the spiritual world for which Rudolf
Steiner stood and that she served. This book was originally
published in German as Die letzten drei Jahre. Ita Wegman in Ascona
1940-1943 (Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, 2004).
"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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