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Here is a thing my heart wishes the world had more of:
I heard it in the air of one night when I listened
To a mother singing softly to a child restless and angry in the darkness.
—Carl Sandburg, from "Poems Done on a Late Night Car"
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The Archetypal Feminine in the Mystery Stream of Humanity
Towards a New Culture of the Family
In ancient times, people's experience of the divine was imbued with the feminine archetype. The world of spirit was seen to be populated by goddesses, and women were honored as priestesses and guardians of sacred rites. This unique book goes way beyond the usual studies on gender. The authors maintain that, during ancient times, people experienced the divine as imbued with the archetypal feminine.
Isis Mary Sophia
Her Mission and Ours
The rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms—from the global movement for women’s rights to a renewed interest in feminine spirituality, the Goddess, and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning of this rebirth? What is the feminine divine? Who is she? This classic book contains most of Rudolf Steiner’s statements on Sophia. READ MORE
What Is This Childhood?
Finding the Spirit of Early Childhood in Language and Creative Living with Our Families
”This book succinctly explores the consciousness of the young child through a weaving of journal entries (made as a teacher, a young mother, and later, a grandmother), observations and musings, as well as practical activities from my parenting workshops. It is a journey through the child’s world, trails marked by their own words.” READ MORE
Heaven on Earth
A Handbook for Parents of Young Children
As we see a shift of old forms that were once the foundations of our daily lives, parents have more questions today than ever before. Although our cultural values and family structures may change, it is the atmosphere in the home that continues to form the foundation of a child’s life. Sharifa Oppenheimer reveals how parents can make the home environment warm, lively, loving, and consistent with their highest ideals. READ MORE
A Woman's Path
Motherhood, Love, and Personal Development
Drawing on her own thirty-three year journey of marriage and motherhood, Almut Bockemühl presents the complexities faced by modern women—balancing motherhood, work, and personal growth. Examining the intersection of family care and individual fulfillment, she offers profound spiritual insights and guidance for navigating the unique challenges of womanhood.
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New Life – Mother and Child
The Mystery of the Goddess and the Divine Mother: Rudolf Steiner’s Madonna Painting
In 1924, Rudolf Steiner painted a watercolor of the Madonna and Child, giving it the title “New Life.” Through Steiner’s depiction of Mary, mother of the Divine Child, this painting draws us to the feminine expression of spirituality. Highly illustrated in full-color, Angela Lord studies this feminine principle and offers insights to the myths and legends of female deities and goddesses.
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She Was Always There
Sophia as a Story for Our Time
“Who, or perhaps what, is she?” Signe Eklund Schaefer poses this question as she leads us into a heartfelt exploration of the great mystery that is Sophia. This book does not take an academic or theological path but one that is personal and full of warmth and genuine interest in discovery that goes toward living reality, well beyond mere names and fixed ideas.
Raising Happy Healthy Children
Why Mothering Matters
This book examines the crucial early years from a child’s perspective. It draws on the latest scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way children develop, body and mind, for the rest of their lives. The keys to this development are parents, and in particular mothers. A society which really cares for its children, says Sally Goddard Blythe, values parents, and makes it possible for them to spend time and be actively involved with their children for at least the first two years of life.
Honoring mothers around the world…
Mama
A World of Mothers and Motherhood
Powerful, emotive, unforgettable—Mama speaks to all mothers in the international language of love. This is a stunning collection of vivid portraits and intimate reflections on motherhood from around the globe. Mama uniquely portrays the emotions and experiences that unite mothers from different times and from diverse cultures. (limited quantity)
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“We are at a point in the fifth post-Atlantean age when current
views must be directed to spiritual forms in art.”
—Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, August 31, 1918
Four Large Watercolour Motifs of Rudolf Steiner
The paintings reproduced in this book—also including a selection from the works of the painter Gerard Wagner—arose from direct color experience and “imagination,” as Rudolf Steiner describes this inner capacity. The purpose of this volume is to focus on unique possibilities that can open up for the future of art in the world and become a means and path for spiritual-scientific inquiry.
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From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
Goethe's Faust in the Light of Anthroposophy
Volume Two of Spiritual–Scientific Commentaries on Goethe’s Faust
13 lectures in Dornach & Prague, Sept. 30, 1916 – Jan. 19, 1919 (CW 273)
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“The Mothers” is a term that is not without significance for the entrance into this world. Keep in mind the connection between the word “mothers” and everything growing and evolving. In the concept of “the maternal,” everything physical and sensory is included along with everything that is not physical and sensory. Imagine the coming-into-being of a single human individual, its physical development, its incarnation. You have to picture to yourself a certain process that takes place through a working-together between the cosmos and the maternal principle before the actual union of the male and the female. The physically developing human being prepares itself within the female organism. At this moment we are envisioning this preparation in such a way that we contemplate it only up to the moment of fertilization, namely, before fertilization. It is a totally insufficient, one-sided, materialistic concept if one believes that all the forces are simply lying there, pre-formed, in the woman, all the forces that lead to the human germ-cell, the physical human germ-cell. That is not the case; what is going on is the working of cosmic, spherical forces. The forces of the cosmos are working down into the woman. The human germ-cell is always the result of cosmic activities. What science—scientific materialism—describes as the egg cell or ovum is produced, so to speak, only on the “motherly” foundation [of the Earth], but in reality it is a likeness, produced out of the great egg of the cosmos.
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture of November 2, 1916, "Faust and the Mothers" in Goethe's Faust in the Light of Anthroposophy (CW 273)
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