I lift them up

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Things are now more complicated than people generally think. Essentially, only the science of initiation can provide the means that lead to a correct understanding of modern social problems . . . .

—Rudolf Steiner, Education as a Force for Social Change (lecture of August 9, 1919, CW 296)

Dear Friends,

One way to portray the problems facing our world today — in matters great and small; personal and external; in the realms of politics, economics, spirit, and of life itself; both generally and down to the details — is the question of balance. It seems at times as though the incidental, everyday circumstances associated with merely being alive and awake in the twenty-first century are themselves a challenge to human equilibrium, insight, and understanding at a deeper (more spiritual) level.

And yet, while this is so, it seems incorrect to wish it to be altogether otherwise. Though I concede the temptation! Instead, I choose to commit myself to the practical, healing impulse of Rudolf Steiner’s work, to making it known and understood by ever more individuals as a basis for meeting, transcending, and ultimately transforming the would-be chronic imbalances of contemporary life. Thus, I am grateful, and humbled, that destiny has placed me here at SteinerBooks, with its relatively simple mission of publishing in English, and making known to the world-at-large, the works of Rudolf Steiner, which includes their intrinsic value for humanity, now and for the future.

And although it may seem a small movement, and we a small publisher — and it is and we are, by certain external measurements — the spiritual significance of humanity coming to an understanding of itself, which can only come about through love and in freedom, is unquantifiable, and also effective, as it has been for more than a century, though not always in the most obvious of ways.

With that said, I am happy to report that our work at SteinerBooks is alive and growing, and we wish to do more to peaceably oppose an inappropriately entrenched materialistic worldview by offering a positive, sensible, truthful, and spiritual one, that is within anyone’s grasp who has the goodwill to meet it.

Still, part of the current reality is that we are in need of financial support for this work, particularly The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner in English project, and are ever grateful to those who are in harmony with our mission and who feel called to help.

Thank you for reading, and for your consideration and generosity — and do keep in touch!

With warm greetings from all of us at SteinerBooks,

John-Scott Legg
Executive Director 

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