The landscape where I lie
Again from boughs sets free
Summer; all night must fly
In wind's obscurity
The thick, green leaves that made
Heavy the August shade.
Soon, in the pictured night,
Returns—as in a dream
Left after sleep's delight—
The shallow autumn stream:
Softly awake, its sound
Poured on the chilly ground.
Soon fly the leaves in throngs;
O love, though once I lay
Far from its sound, to weep,
When night divides my sleep,
When stars, the autumn stream,
Stillness, divide my dream,
Night to your voice belongs.
—Louise Bogan, ”Song for a Lyre”
New Releases
Mystery of the Christ
Aspects of Christology in the Work
of Rudolf Steiner
Oskar Kürten
Who is the Christ? What is the “Sun spirit?” How should we understand the person of Jesus in relation to the Cosmic Christ or even to the Holy Trinity? Oskar Kürten creates a mutually reconcilable and coherent text in his majestic overview of Rudolf Steiner’s extensive references to Christ and Jesus dispersed throughout his numerous writings and lectures.
Reflexes, Movement, Learning & Behaviour
Analysing and Unblocking Neuro-motor Immaturity
Sally Goddard Blythe
This book covers an area of education and emotional wellbeing that tends either to be overlooked or to fall between professional domains. It provides information that helps parents, teachers, and other professionals to understand what lies behind the underachieving children and adults who suffer from balance-related anxiety disorders.
Friedrich Schiller and the Future of Freedom
With Aspects of His Occult Biography
Sergei O. Prokofieff
Sergei Prokofieff shines new light on Friedrich Schiller’s character and destiny, helping to establish his position as a crucial antecedent to Rudolf Steiner in the spiritual history of humanity.
The Language of Color in the
First Goetheanum
A Study of Rudolf Steiner’s Art
Hilde Raske
Hilde Raske provides a detailed examination of the artistic work on the two cupolas of the First Goetheanum, including Steiner’s draft sketches and his written and verbal statements. Featuring 30 color and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations, this edition presents a high-quality facsimile of the long out-of-print original edition of 1983.
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New for Children and Families
Woodland Crafting
30 Projects for Children
Patrick Harrison
Woodland Crafting guides the reader through making things with wood—in the woods—with a series of beautifully hand-drawn illustrations. The author provides essential knowledge and skills to complete a range of craft projects, ranging from simple to advanced and from functional structures to creative outdoor play forms.
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2024 Calendars
Elsa Beskow Calendar 2024
Illustrated by Elsa Beskow
A month-to-view calendar with space for writing in appointments, beautifully illustrated with seasonal artwork from Elsa Beskow's books. With eco-friendly printing and packaging.
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Stargazers’ Almanac 2024
A Monthly Guide to the Stars and Planets
A beautiful illustrated monthly guide to exploring the stars and planets which is designed for naked-eye astronomy – perfect for both enthusiasts and beginners. With eco-friendly printing and packaging.
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New in the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
The Mystery of Death
The Nature and Significance of Central Europe and the European Folk-Spirits
15 lectures, various cities, January 31 – June 19, 1915 (CW 159)
Translated by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
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In America, there exists the tendency to develop a culture that is wholly immersed in materialism, in the ahrimanic element, that—even when there is an aspiration toward spiritualism—is wholly pervaded by a material outlook. Even where people strive toward the spirit there is a wish tangibly to conjure up spirits in a spiritistic way. This will become ever stronger, and the longing to make everything “matter-of-fact” will become ever greater. It will gradually take hold of the west of Europe. Then will the mission of bringing the ahrimanic element into culture be fulfilled . . . . But one needs to know how one should oppose it, for the course of the ahrimanic element is the passage through materialism. And this passage through materialism must be undertaken; the reason for this has a deep, wisdom-filled connection. . .
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture of May 15, 1915, in The Mystery of Death (CW 159)