{"title":"New in The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781621483861-eurythmy-forms-for-the-calendar-of-the-soul","title":"Eurythmy Forms for the Calendar of the Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese eurythmy forms and indications (CW A 23\/2), published here for the first time in English, were given by Rudolf Steiner for the weekly verses of \u003ci\u003eThe Calendar of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e. The wealth of forms and metamorphoses in the cycle of the year is study material for all students of eurythmy. The forms can also be stimulating for those who are not practicing eurythmists but are interested in deepening their relationship with the calendar’s verses and the cycle of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe forms and indications illumine many aspects of the verses that are otherwise hidden. Through the changing number of performers, the forms acquire their unique character. The white dresses, which are worn for all fifty-two verses, are enlivened through the changing colors of the veils. Whether a specific color is in the middle of the form or at the periphery, whether the color belongs to a large or a small form, and so on—all of these aspects create a differentiated play of forces that offers refreshment for the soul. Over the years, the forms have been frequently traced and copied by eurythmists. This has resulted in distortions of the original and inaccuracies. A faithful reproduction of the original forms is therefore necessary. In many instances, the verse is written on the same page as the form, and the form and text create a whole. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this English edition, a translation of the indications for the forms (written by Rudolf Steiner directly on the forms themselves) has been provided by Dorothea Mier. This allows the reader not only to engage with the forms themselves but also with the specific movement indications for each verse. Rudolf Steiner’s lighting and costume indications for the verses are also included, along with the classic English translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Calendar of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e by Ruth and Hans Pusch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50246826852647,"sku":"9781621483861","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9781621483861.jpg?v=1755882304"},{"product_id":"9781621481812-the-seasonal-festivals-as-soul-experience","title":"The Seasonal Festivals as Soul Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEleven Lectures held in Bern, Dornach, Prague, Stuttgart, and Berlin from April 6 to July 11, 1923 (CW 224)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The true value of the Anthroposophical Society can only be assessed by verifying whether it understands not only dead anthroposophy, which concerns itself with what is past, but whether it also understands living anthroposophy. Living anthroposophy can also be a sum of flaming sparks! But these sparks of fire will be inside a temple that is not made of external material. Physical flames consume temples that consist of outer materials. The flames of genuine spiritual enthusiasm, of true spiritual life—which must permeate the temple because they must illuminate it with what lights up in the spirit—these flames cannot destroy the temple; they can only give an ever more glorious form to this temple. Let us think of what living anthroposophy is; let us think of it as the fiery flame that will lead us ever further, like the living spirit of anthroposophy itself—which shall lead us to the further evolution of humanity and to the rebuilding of what is now in such an evident decline.” —Rudolf Steiner, Berlin, May 23, 1923\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume, published here for the first time in English, contains lectures given in the first half of 1923, a year of trials for Rudolf Steiner and the anthroposophical movement. Having suffered the loss of the Goetheanum, that house of the Word into which he had poured his forces for ten years, Steiner was faced with the possible, and even likely, splintering of the anthroposophical movement and its Society. Representing an upbuilding impulse after the tragedy of the Goetheanum fire, these lectures have as a common thematic thread the connection of the human being with the work of the hierarchies through the rhythms of human life and the cycles of time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of the volume is drawn especially from the later lectures, which are centered around a renewal of the seasonal festivals. Rudolf Steiner speaks about Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, St. John’s, and Michaelmas, illuminating new paths toward the celebration of true festivals in our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Berlin lecture on the founding of a new Michael Festival is of particular significance. It was the last that Rudolf Steiner ever gave in Berlin, the city where he had lived and worked on behalf of anthroposophy for many years. In the lecture, Rudolf Steiner draws a parallel between the autumn and spring seasons. Just as we experience the death and resurrection through the spring festival of Easter, so, in the autumn, when outer nature dies away and the human being hears the inner call to awaken, he can, out of his inner forces of consciousness during earthly life, experience a resurrection in spirit before death, so that when he passes through the gate of death, he will have first accomplished this resurrection and will thereby find his rightful path in the spiritual worlds. Thus the death and resurrection at Easter is mirrored in the resurrection and death at Michaelmas. This inner path of Michaelic self-transformation leads to the possibility of moving beyond mere talk about social change to an actual capacity to become socially creative, not merely to understand through the head the meaning of the old festivals, but rather to create festivals out of an inner sense for the course of the year, out of a will to awaken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sparks of fire that set the Goetheanum, that temple of the Word, ablaze flashed forth from the jealousy of man. The human world, in that moment, denied the spirit. But the spirit could not and cannot be irradicated. It lights up anew wherever human beings give it a dwelling place. This is the real story of the year 1923 in the life of Rudolf Steiner and his work on behalf of the spirit, of anthroposophy: the continuation of the spiritual fire in the hearts of those willing to freely work in service of the true spirit of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50404475306279,"sku":"9781621481812","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9781621481812.jpg?v=1761323827"},{"product_id":"9781621483236-the-hour-of-decision","title":"The Hour of Decision","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEighteen lectures held in Stuttgart, Dornach, and The Hague from January 1 to April 1, 1921 (CW 203)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“These two things—knowledge of the human being and feeling for the entire cosmos—these are what give the human being equilibrium. But this he can find if, in the most modern sense, he can really grasp the Christ mystery, grasp it as anthroposophical spiritual knowledge can give it to him. For there we speak of Christ as a cosmic being that has descended to the earth from cosmic infinitude. We learn to feel cosmically, and need only imbue this cosmic feeling with content. This we can do only through anthroposophical spiritual science, otherwise the concept of Christ remains empty for us. The concept of Christ turns into mere phrase if we do not grasp the cosmos itself as human.” (Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, January 30, 1921)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished here for the first time in English, these lectures offer a unique glimpse into Rudolf Steiner’s activity during the challenging post-war years. As Steiner’s work struck ever more broadly and deeply into the wider culture, challenging the status quo in every field of social, cultural, and economic life—with initiatives such as the movement for social threefolding and the founding of the first Waldorf School—unprecedented opposition to anthroposophy arose from all sides, most vehemently from certain academic and clerical circles. The response of the members of the Anthroposophical Society to the opposition, though well intentioned, was often woefully naïve and inadequate. This opposition, together with the lack of wakefulness on the part of the membership of the Anthroposophical Society, would lead, less than two years after these lectures, to the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Years’ Eve 1922\/23. Already in the lecture of January 30, 1921, reading the signs of the times, Steiner warned:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf things continue like this, then Ahriman will get his due. . . . The ahrimanic spirit, this cold, ossified, bald Ahriman—if I may express myself pictorially—creeps around our modern centers of learning; he wants them to stay as they are. He will certainly lend a hand if it comes to something like the destruction of this Goetheanum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lectures were not intended as a self-contained lecture cycle but were rather spread out over the first months of 1921, some in Stuttgart, one in The Hague, and the rest in Dornach—hence their wide-ranging nature. And yet, a red thread runs through them: a picture of humanity at the hour of decision. The word \u003ci\u003edecision\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas if written in golden letters, stands at the heart of these lectures. It appears nearly twenty times in the course of the lectures, as in: “the hour of decision,” “this age of decision,” “a decision that comes from the depths of human nature,” etc. And while Steiner speaks of many decisions facing us today in all aspects of life, at the core of this age of decision lie the three paths open to humanity: the path of Lucifer, the path of Ahriman, and the path of Christ. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a must-read for anyone seeking deeper insights into the nature of our times and the decisions facing humanity today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in German as \u003ci\u003eDie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVerantwortung des Menschen für die Weltentwickelung durch seinen geistigen Zusammenhang mit dem Erdplaneten und der Sternenwelt\u003c\/i\u003e, 3rd edition,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eby Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach, Switzerland, 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50404475240743,"sku":"9781621483236","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9781621483236_02f1167a-7753-4af5-bfb8-3c4b8cc35d3d.jpg?v=1759421529"}],"url":"https:\/\/steinerbooks.org\/collections\/new-in-the-collected-works-of-rudolf-steiner.oembed","provider":"SteinerBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}