{"title":"Peter Selg","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9780880107181-unbornness","title":"Unbornness","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Not only do we pass through the gate of death as immortal beings, we also enter through the gate of birth as unborn beings. We need the term \u003ci\u003eunbornness,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the term \u003ci\u003eimmortality,\u003c\/i\u003e to encompass the whole human being” (Rudolf Steiner).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs anyone who has had a child knows, newborns enter the earthly world as beings different from their parents. They arrive with their own individuality, being, and history. From the beginning, they manifest an essential dignity and a unique “I,” which they clearly brought with them from the spiritual world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unborn life of a person’s higher individuality guides the whole process of incarnation. It frames our lives, but we fail to recognize this because of a single-minded focus on immortality, or life-after-death, which makes us forget the reality of our “unbornness.” This unbornness extends not only from conception to birth, but also includes the whole existence and history of one’s “I” in its long journey from the spiritual world to Earth. Unbornness—the other side of eternity—allows us to experience the fact that birth is just as great a mystery as is death. In a new and striking way, unbornness poses the mystery of our human task on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was one of Rudolf Steiner’s great gifts that he returned the concept of unbornness to human consciousness and language. In this brief, stunning, and moving, almost poetic work, Peter Selg gathers the key elements and images needed to begin an understanding of—and wonder at—the vast scope of our unbornness. Drawing on and expanding on Steiner’s work, as well as Raphael’s \u003ci\u003eSistine Madonna\u003c\/i\u003e and the poems of Nelly Sachs and Rainer Maria Rilke, Selg unveils this deepest mystery of human existence. After reading it, one will never look at a child or another human being in the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife after death \u003cbr\u003elife before birth; \u003cbr\u003eonly by knowing both\u003cbr\u003edo we know eternity. \u003cbr\u003e(Rudolf Steiner)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnbornness\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of \u003ci\u003eUngeborenheit: Die Präexistenz des Menschen und der Weg zur Geburt\u003c\/i\u003e (Verlag Ita Wegman Institut, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Selg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322662461735,"sku":"9780880107181","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880107181_L.jpg?v=1748032278"},{"product_id":"9780880106603-rudolf-steiner-and-christian-rosenkreutz","title":"Rudolf Steiner and Christian Rosenkreutz","description":"“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....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The spiritual stream related to Christian Rosenkreutz offers the most potent assistance to those who strive to understand the Christ impulse.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudolf 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRudolf Steiner and Christian Rosenkreutz\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with an appendix containing the text of the original (1614) \u003ci\u003eFama,\u003c\/i\u003e or “Announcement of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll those interested in the esoteric foundations of Anthroposophy or in the true meaning of Rosicrucianism will be find this book of great value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Selg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322664100135,"sku":"9780880106603","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880106603_L.jpg?v=1748032279"},{"product_id":"9781621483731-the-confirmation-of-kaspar-hauser","title":"The Confirmation of Kaspar Hauser","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the 2018 Kaspar Hauser Festival in Ansbach, Germany, Peter Selg assumed the task of understanding the individuals in Kaspar Hauser’s life and comprehending their significance for his destiny. He begins by unfolding the sociopolitical and philosophical milieu during Hauser’s life, starting with Friedrich Hölderlin and other significant luminaries of the time. A fellow student and friend of Hölderlin said of Kaspar Hauser, “His fine facial features, his gentle expression, his beautiful bearing, his carefully tended attire, and the unmistakable loftiness expressed in his being have always remained with me,” saying further, “Whoever saw him loved him, and whoever became acquainted with him remained his friend.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelg compares the biographies of Kaspar Hauser and Rudolf Steiner, who stated, “If Kaspar Hauser had not lived and died as he did, the contact between the earth and the spiritual world would have been completely broken.” And Selg points out, “Through his path of suffering, Hauser prepared something that would allow new life and a new ‘teaching’ to enter the earthly realm.”\u003c\/p\u003e“It was not only fame that Kaspar Hauser and Rudolf Steiner shared, but also the common fate of suffering under the methodical campaign of their opponents. From the very beginning, the aim was to divert Hauser from his task—indeed, from his very individuality—through subjecting him to long years of confinement, through the assassination attempt in Nuremberg, and finally the fatal stabbing in the Hofgarten in Ansbach.” — \u003cb\u003ePeter Selg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are also able witness Kaspar Hauser’s confirmation ceremony of May 20, 1833, in the Swan Knight Chapel of the Gumbertus Church in Ansbach. Eckart Böhmer, director of the Kaspar Hauser Festival, wrote, “Kaspar Hauser’s confirmation, probably in his 21st year, is possibly the brightest event of his short life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a translation from German of the book \u003ci\u003eSchicksals-Weihe. Die Konfirmation Kaspar Hausers\u003c\/i\u003e (Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Stuttgart, 2018) and chapters 1 \u0026amp; 2 from \u003ci\u003eDas andere Deutschland. 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