Keeping time, time, time

December 18, 2023 J.S. Legg

Hear the sledges with the bells --
            Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
      How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
          In the icy air of night!
      While the stars that oversprinkle
      All the heavens, seem to twinkle
          With a crystalline delight;
        Keeping time, time, time,
        In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
   From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
              Bells, bells, bells --
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

—Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

New from Peter Selg

The Anthroposophical World Society and Its
School for Spiritual Science

In light of the centenary of the Christmas Conference 1923/24, Peter Selg has written the four essays published here, which deal, each in its own way, with the past, present, and future of the Anthroposophical Society and its School for Spiritual Science. Selg outlines important historical background to the Christmas Conference, shedding light on the origins of the re-founding of the Society, what necessitated it, and what Rudolf Steiner was hoping to achieve.
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“When thousands are in the initial vanguard of a movement, these thousands have a higher, more potentized obligation...they have the obligation to practice, in every detail, greater courage, greater energy, greater patience, greater tolerance, and above all greater truthfulness in all things.” — Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, June 16, 1923

Facing Evil
The Guardian Speaks
Esoteric Lessons of the First Class

The two essays published here were written on the basis of lectures given to members of the School for Spiritual Science. Their content therefore deals directly with the path of inner development outlined in the lessons of the First Class of the School.
This book represents an ongoing effort on the part of Peter Selg and the leaders of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum to deepen and internalize the work with the Class Lessons for all members of the School for Spiritual Science.
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Back in Print

The Christmas Foundation
Beginning of a New Cosmic Age
Rudolf Grosse

This little treasure of a book, first published in English in 1984, is essential reading for anyone who, like the author, aspires to understand Rudolf Steiner "within the overall process of world history, and so come to recognize his spiritual mission." Out of his own deep personal relationship to both the first Goetheanum and The Christmas Foundation Meeting, Grosse offers a wide-ranging, detailed, and ultimately helpful spiritual-historical basis for deepening one's own connection to this unique, world-historical spiritual impulse.

New from Theresa Roach Melia

Scoochie Mouse and the Light of Love

Scoochie Mouse makes her home in the chicken coop beneath the nest of her friend Henrietta, on the farm of a kind, loving family with three children, Tom, Jessica, and Lianna, their friend Birdie, and Woof the dog. Scoochie’s adventures and growing knowledge of the world are interwoven with the life of the farm and the family, with the circle of the seasons and the fairytales told in the quiet evenings. The world in which Scoochie and the farm family live is our world too, seen through the innocent eyes of childhood.

Also in this series:
The Adventures of Scoochie Mouse
Scoochie Mouse and the Miracle of Life

Christmas Favorites for Children

From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

The Christmas Conference
For the Foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society 1923/1924

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Let us seek in the threefold being of man, which teaches us love, which teaches us the universal Imagination, which teaches us the universal thoughts; let us seek, in this threefold being, the substance of universal love which we lay as the foundation, let us seek in this threefold being the archetype of the Imagination according to which we shape the universal love within our hearts, let us seek the power of thoughts from the heights which enable us to let shine forth in fitting manner this dodecahedral Imagination which has received its form through love!
Then shall we carry away with us from here what we need.
Then shall the Foundation Stone shine forth before the eyes of our soul, that Foundation Stone which has received its substance from universal love and human love, its picture image, its form, from universal Imagination and human Imagination, and its brilliant radiance from universal thoughts and human thoughts, its brilliant radiance which whenever we recollect this moment can shine towards us with warm light, with light that spurs on our deeds, our thinking, our feeling and our willing.
The proper soil into which we must lower the Foundation Stone of today, the proper soil consists of our hearts in their harmonious collaboration, in their good, love-filled desire to bear together the will of Anthroposophy through the world. . .

—Rudolf Steiner, December 25, 1923, 10 o'clock in the morning, in
The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society 1923/1924 (CW 260)

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