Healing Madonnas
Christopher Bamford, author of Healing Madonnas: Exploring the Sequence of Madonna Images Created by Rudolf Steiner and Felix Peipers for Use in Therapy and Meditation explores a little-known example of Rudolf Steiner’s efforts to bring into being, in a practical and future-oriented way, a contemporary embodiment of the wisdom that once lived in the ancient Mysteries—in this instance a sequence of fifteen images of the Madonna, intended originally for contemplation under supervision in a clinical setting as a new form of therapy for those suffering from wounds of the soul.
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Contents
Guiding Thoughts
Preface
By Way of Introduction
Approaching the Images, or the Mystery of Seeing
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Sacred-Religious or Secular-Spiritual
Enter The Sistine Madonna
Devotion and Reverence
Sophia: Wisdom Becomes Love
The Presence of the Holy Mother
The Ancient Mysteries
Isis and Madonna
The Origins of the Madonna Sequence
A Short Prehistory of the Pentagram
The Images, Etheric Body, and Organization Underlying the Sequence
The Healing Madonna Images
Sistine Madonna (full image)
Beautiful Gardener
Alba Madonna
Alba Madonna (detail)
Pazzi Madonna
Madonna of the Goldfinch (detail)
Bridgemwater Madonna
Sistine Madonna (detail)
Tempi Madonna
The publication of this work was made possible by a grant from the Waldorf Curriculum Fund.