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In contrast to Eastern methods of inner development, these arise from the Western, Rosicrucian stream, adapted fully to modern consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVarious exercises are given—for morning and evening, for the days of the week, and for the months of the year. 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Steiner presents great imaginative pictures that unite the heavens and the Earth through a portrayal of the activities of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the course of the lectures, Rudolf Steiner offers spiritual insight into subjects that include the alchemical processes of sulfur, mercury, and salt in the cosmos; the realms of humankind and plants; spiritual “combustion” processes; crystals; clouds and meteors; the movements of elemental beings in nature; and the conflicting efforts of Lucifer and Ahriman—the two great adversaries—to divert Earth from its true purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Four Seasons and the Archangels\u003c\/i\u003e includes five color plates of Rudolf Steiner’s blackboard drawings made during the lectures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003eDas Miterleben des Jahreslaufes in vier kosmischen Imaginationen\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 229).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322639753511,"sku":"9781855840508","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9781855840508_L.jpg?v=1748032249"},{"product_id":"9781855840584-manifestations-of-karma","title":"Manifestations of Karma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 lectures, Hamburg May 16-28, 1910 (CW 120)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do people en-counter such different events and circumstances in life? 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Steiner explains that, since the beginning of the twentieth century, this is true Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a translation of Die Philosophie Des Thomas von Aquino (GA 74).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322639851815,"sku":"9780880100441","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880100441_L_133de19a-fc2b-4570-a766-ca9a24522304.jpg?v=1748032249"},{"product_id":"9780880100465-knowledge-of-the-higher-worlds-and-its-attainment","title":"Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment","description":"\u003cb\u003ePublished in 1904 (CW 10)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Not everyone can immediately achieve spiritual vision; but the discoveries of those who have it can be health-giving life nourishment for all. 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He begins with the premise that “the capacities by which we can gain insights into the higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.” Steiner carefully and precisely leads the reader from the cultivation of the fundamental soul attitudes of reverence and inner tranquility to the development of inner life through the stages of preparation, illumination, and initiation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner provides practical exercises of inner and outer observation and moral development. By patiently and persistently following his guidelines, new “organs” of soul and spirit begin to form, which reveal the contours of the higher worlds thus far concealed from us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner in this important work becomes a teacher, a counselor, and a friend whose advice is practical, clear, and effective. The challenges we face in life require increasingly deeper levels of understanding, and Steiner’s text helps readers to cultivate the capacities for such insights and places them at the service of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Steiner’s most essential guide to the modern path of initiation he advocated throughout his life. It has been translated into many languages and has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. How to Know Higher Worlds has been admired by some of the most brilliant minds of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The methods by which a student is prepared for the reception of higher knowledge are minutely prescribed. The direction he is to take is traced with unfading, everlasting letters in the worlds of the spirit where the initiates guard the higher secrets. 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Rudolf Steiner, in a fully conscious way, laid a foundation for celebrating the Christian festivals—Christmas, Easter, St. John's, and Michaelmas. This is begun with a description of how the festival year evolved over long ages from the Earth's cycle of inbreathing and outbreathing. These forces are the Earth's soul activities in relation to the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner reveals the deep relationship between humanity and the seasons of the Earth, the solstices, and the equinoxes. And through the festivals of the seasons, he reveals humanity's relationship to the Christ Being The esoteric realities behind the festivals are also discussed in relation to sub-earthly and supra-earthly forces, the ancient Mysteries, the activity of the Archangel Michael, morality, and the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003eDer Jahreskreislauf als Atmungsvorgang der Erde und die vier großen Festeszeiten. 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The Illumine a path rather than asserting a truth.” —\u003cb\u003eWolf-Ulrich Klünker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligious and spiritual writings have always referred to beings of the spiritual hierarchies, especially those understood in Christian tradition as Angels, which are the closest to human beings and act as invisible human guides and companions. They influence the lives of individuals, the evolution of humanity, and the cosmos as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his own clairvoyant vision, Rudolf Steiner confirmed the existence of such spiritual beings and showed how modern minds can gain access to their world. 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What will be given may be called ‘the teachings of esoteric science.’” — \u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e (chapter 1)\u003cp\u003eIn 1904, in the magazine \u003ci\u003eLucifer-Gnosis,\u003c\/i\u003e Rudolf Steiner published some of his earliest articles on self-development, which became his classic \u003ci\u003eHow to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation\u003c\/i\u003e. Steiner continued his articles as “The Stages of Higher Development.” He wrote of his intention in 1914: “A second part [of \u003ci\u003eHow to Know Higher Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e] is to be added to this first part, bringing further explanations of the frame of mind that can lead to the experience of higher worlds.” Though Steiner never found time to publish those articles as a book, they are collected in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stages of Higher Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e records some of Steiner’s early esoteric instructions, revealing how he became a pioneer of modern inner development and spiritual activity. He carefully guides the reader from an ordinary, sensory-based “material mode of cognition” through the higher levels of knowing he calls \u003ci\u003eImagination, Inspiration,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIntuition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Most difficult was the awakening of a sense for inner freedom, self-reliance, fully answerable to itself. With scrupulous regard for this goal, Rudolf Steiner desired no other role among humanity than that of instructor and, when so requested, advisor, awakener to spiritual goals of humankind. He was able to present spiritual facts because his thinking and seeing were permeated with life and unfolded, step by step, with the power of an organism of nature. His spiritual work stands before us—the restored unity of science, art, and religion.” — \u003cb\u003eMarie Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e (from the preface)\u003cp\u003eThis small handbook will help anyone who wishes to take a serious approach to Anthroposophy as a path of knowledge, especially those who have already studied and worked with \u003ci\u003eHow to Know Higher Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from \u003ci\u003eDie Stufen der hoeheren Erkenntnis\u003c\/i\u003e (1931) by Lisa Monges and Floyd McKnight. Originally Published in \u003ci\u003eLucifer–Gnosis\u003c\/i\u003e 1905–1908. 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Such matters have changed over millennia of human and earthly evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the evolution human consciousness is the Christ event. Today, we must experience the Christ within ourselves as light, life, and love. By adopting the appropriate path of knowledge, we can become citizens of the universe rather than \"hermits\" on the Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lectures are crucial reading for a deeper understanding of the anthroposophic view of our place as human beings in the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume is a translation of \u003ci\u003eErdenwissen und Himmelserkenntnis\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 221).","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322643128615,"sku":"9780880102940","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880102940_L_3fcbc0b5-f8e9-4f9b-b642-b2b1db887f27.jpg?v=1748032254"},{"product_id":"9780910142625-life-between-death-and-rebirth","title":"Life between Death and Rebirth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 lectures, various cities, Oct. 26, 1912 - May 13, 1913 (CW 140)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during and after death. On the basis of precise clairvoyant observations, he describes the events experienced during the millennium of the soul’s journey within the vast realms of soul and spirit between death and rebirth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner describes the states of consciousness experienced by our deceased loved ones and how we—by considering their new consciousness—can communicate with them and even help them. Reading these descriptions, it becomes clear that excarnated souls need the spiritual support of those presently incarnated, and that those still on earth, in turn, derive enlightenment and support from their former earthly companions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife between Death and Rebirth\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of 16 lectures from \u003ci\u003eOkkulte Untersuchungen über das Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. 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Two clinics were opened; two publications began. He lectured in Germany, Switzerland, Amsterdam, The Hague, and Oslo, often giving two or three and occasionally four lectures a day. Anthroposophy was becoming more known with all this activity, but opposition was also growing stronger. Steiner said: \u003c\/p\u003e“The modern materialistic worldview is a product of fear and anxiety. This fear lives on in the outer actions of human beings, in the social structure, in the course of history.... Why did people become materialists? Why would people admit only the outer—what is given in material existence? People were afraid to descend into the depths of the human being.” \u003cp\u003eThe mind–body split is the result of this fear to penetrate the inner human being; our lack of courage rebounds on society, producing the terrible conditions of modern civilization. Healing will come only when we summon the courage to penetrate the hidden mysteries of the inner human being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Anthroposophical Society itself, Steiner sought to awaken the local groups from their comfortable complacency. Cosmosophy, volume 1, is the first part of a two lecture courses Steiner gave in Dornach in the fall of 1921 to members of the Society on Anthroposophy as \u003ci\u003ecosmosophy\u003c\/i\u003e—wisdom of the human being as cosmic wisdom. 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Through this, Steiner shows the significance of scientific research and the mode of thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought us, we may have a feeling like the pain we feel over the death of a loved one. According to Steiner, this feeling of loss will eventually become our most important stimulation to seek the spirit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003eDer Entstehungsmoment der Naturwissenschaft in der Weltgeschichte und ihre seitherige Entwicklung\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 326).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322643357991,"sku":"9780880101400","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880101400_L_254a8901-3c3a-41cf-bd1e-e470841527db.jpg?v=1748032258"},{"product_id":"9780910142038-the-bridge-between-universal-spirituality-and-the-physical-constitution-of-man","title":"The Bridge between Universal Spirituality and the Physical Constitution of Man","description":"\u003cb\u003e3 lectures, Dornach, December 17-19, 1920 (CW 202)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRudolf Steiner addresses the following topics in these lectures:\u003cbr\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSoul-and-Spirit in Man's Physical Constitution:\u003c\/b\u003e The physical organism of man is considered today to consist of more or less solid-fluid substances; but as well as his solid, physical body, man has within him as definite organisms, a fluid body, an air-body and a warmth-body. — The connections of these organisms with the members of man's whole being and with the different Ethers. — Thought and Tone; Ego and circulating Blood. — Man in the sleeping state. — Man's relation to the universal Spirituality. — Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition. — The circumscribed view of the human organism prevailing today is unable to build any bridge between the physical body and the soul-and-spirit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power:\u003c\/b\u003e Recapitulation of previous lecture. — Connection of the moral world-order with the physical world-order. — The moral world-order has no place in the natural scientific thinking of today. — The positive effect of moral ideals and ideas and the negative effect of theoretical ideas on the four organisms in man. — The materialistic conception of the imperishability of matter and energy. — Matter and energy die away to nullity; but man's moral thinking imbues life into substance and will. — The natural world dies away in man; in the realm of the moral a new natural world comes into being; thus are the moral order and the natural order connected. — Absence of spirituality in the modern picture of the world which is based on the Copernican system. — Kepler and Newton. — We need a spiritual view of the universe. — The sun is not a globe of burning gas but the reflection of a spiritual reality revealed in the physical. — The moral power developed by man rays out and is reflected as the spiritual Sun. — Julian the Apostate. — The connection of the spiritual Sun with the physical sun is the Christ-Secret.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Path to Freedom and Love and Their Significance in World-Events:\u003c\/b\u003e Man as a being of Thinking, Action and Feeling. — The connection of the life of thought with the will. — Pure thinking: irradiation of the life of thought by will. — This leads to Freedom. — Irradiation of the life of will by thoughts leads to Love. — The meaning of the ancient expressions: Semblance, Power, Wisdom. — To speak of the imperishability of matter and energy annuls Love. — The significance of Freedom and Love in world-happenings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322643915047,"sku":"9780910142038","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780910142038.jpg?v=1781285303"},{"product_id":"9780880102896-the-universal-human","title":"The Universal Human","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 lectures, Munich and Bern, 1909–1910, 1916 (CW 117, 124, 165)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is one of the meanings of the Mystery of Golgotha: the attainment of the unity of humanity from within. Externally, human beings are becoming more and more different. The result will be not sameness but difference over the Earth, and human beings must exert all the more force from within to attain unity\" (lecture 4).\u003cp\u003eIn this collection, Rudolf Steiner describes the evolutionary task facing contemporary humanity in preparing to enter the sixth epoch. In the past, human souls felt a strong connection with the group soul to which they belonged. Today, all \"group soul\" characteristics—such as race and nation—must be stripped away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudi Lissau wrote of the last lecture: “No anthroposophist should approach racial problems without first pondering this lecture and its implications.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteiner also explains that we must overcome such preconception as are formed by our normal notions and feelings of good and evil: \u003c\/p\u003e\"Most people picture Ahriman and Lucifer as evil beings—albeit much more intensely evil than human beings. But this is not true; we must keep in mind that certain earthly feelings we associate with our concepts lose their meaning when we go beyond the earthly realm. Thus, we cannot say that there are good gods on the one hand and evil gods Ahriman and Lucifer on the other.... The opposing forces were created by the good gods themselves in an earlier period so that they would be able to bring to bear their full force for the development I have described\" (lect. 4).","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322643783975,"sku":"9780880102896","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880102896_L_d963c5f4-3255-44b3-8580-5dfcef3e9226.jpg?v=1748032258"},{"product_id":"9780880103978-a-psychology-of-body-soul-and-spirit","title":"A Psychology of Body, Soul, and Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 lectures, Berlin, Oct. 23, 1909 – Dec. 16, 1911 (CW 115)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“Steiner does not talk \u003ci\u003eabout\u003c\/i\u003e soul; he speaks \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e soul. That is the entire method. There is, however, an entrance fee for doing psychology. The fee is that you need to leave behind your well-known-to-you self-identity. You must suffer the experience of leaving behind not only what you know, but also what you \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c\/i\u003e you know of yourself. This requirement qualifies psychology as integral to the work of initiation.” — \u003cb\u003eRobert Sardello\u003c\/b\u003e (from his introduction)\u003cp\u003eThis series of lectures provides the basis for an entirely new psychology. The first four lectures give a precise, dynamic understanding of the human soul in relation to the activity of the senses and to the subtle processes that make up the human being on Earth. The next four lectures focus on what we can know of the human soul based on direct observation alone. No theorizing takes place. To show what we can know of soul life through the immediacy of engaged observation of oneself and others, Rudolf Steiner refrains from using his own higher capacities of clairvoyance to form a picture of our soul life. The concluding lectures portray the relationship of soul life to spirit life, showing us how to awaken individual spirit life and how to distinguish between illusory and genuine spiritual experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented more than a century ago, we might be tempted to think that, insofar as psychology is concerned, the content of these lectures is outdated. It is also tempting to think that, because Steiner is not usually associated with the founders of modern psychology, his efforts must be considered, at best, an interesting aside. On the contrary, these lectures are actually a wellspring for the true stream of psychology, as the term itself means “soul study.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Psychology of Body, Soul, and Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to anyone interested in deeper understanding psychology, as well as by those interested in inner development. Whether we are involved in education, medicine, art, drama, economics, or business, the perspectives contained in this book have the potential to restore the frequently missing element of soul in psychology today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Robert Sardello’s in-depth introduction places Steiner’s lectures in the context of modern life and psychology and provides insights into how to read and use this text for inner development and a deeper understanding of spiritual science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA previous translation of these lectures was published as \u003ci\u003eAnthroposophy, Psychosophy, Pneumatosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and as \u003ci\u003eWisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit.\u003c\/i\u003e This volume is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003eAnthroposophie, Psychosophie, Pneumatosophie\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 115)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49322644144423,"sku":"9780880103978","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/files\/9780880103978_L_0cd3e029-6fcc-4c8b-8793-5a7b5cd70593.jpg?v=1748032255"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/6283\/5495\/collections\/Rudolf_Steiner_2ad61306-8d74-4899-b2fb-c1c3a53fbbd4.png?v=1731500917","url":"https:\/\/steinerbooks.org\/collections\/rudolf-steiner.oembed?page=38","provider":"SteinerBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}