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Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life

As a thank you to our members, SteinerBooks would like to share a preview of our first audiobook, Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life: 1861-1907 by Rudolf Steiner.

Written in weekly installments for Das Goetheanum, December 9, 1923 - April 5, 1925 (CW 28)

Rudolf Steiner seldom spoke of himself in a personal way, but in his Autobiography we are offered a rare glimpse into some of the most intimate aspects of his inner life, his personal relationships, and significant events that helped to shape the philosopher, seer, and teacher he became.

This edition restores the original format of seventy chapters, just as Rudolf Steiner wrote them and submitted them to the Goetheanum weekly newsletter. This autobiography is not merely a narrative of his successes and failures, but primarily the story of a soul possessed of a precise and probing scientific mind and a natural clairvoyant ability to see into the spiritual world.

Although naturally clairvoyant, Rudolf Steiner always recognized the integrity and importance of modern scientific methods. Thus he developed a modern discipline he called Anthroposophy and Spiritual Science. During the century that followed the events related in this autobiography, Steiner's insights have touched and enriched numerous areas of life in ways that continue to transform people’s lives in the twenty-first century.

Series Foreword, Introduction, and Chronological Context
Part 1: Seeds of Awakening, Wiener-Neustadt to Vienna, 1861-1890
Part 2: Fertile Ground, Weimar, 1890-1897
Part 3: Must I Remain Unable to Speak?, Berlin, 1897-1907
A Chronology of Rudolf Steiner’s Life and Work by Paul Allen
Editorial and Reference Notes by Paul Allen (updated)
Annotated Bibliography
Index

Update: 9/29/2018

We have added the complete audio book above.

Healing Madaonnas with Chris Bamford

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

1. By Way of Introduction

2. Approaching the Images, or the Mystery of Seeing

3. Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

4. Sacred-Religious or Secular-Spiritual

5. Enter The Sistine Madonna

6. Devotion and Reverence

7. Sophia: Wisdom Becomes Love

8. The Presence of the Holy Mother

9. The Ancient Mysteries

10. Isis and Madonna

11. The Origins of the Madonna Sequence

12. A Short Prehistory of the Pentagram

13. The Images, Etheric Body, and Organization Underlying the Sequence

The Healing Madonna Images

1. Sistine Madonna (full image)

2. Beautiful Gardener

3. Alba Madonna

4. Alba Madonna (detail)

5. Pazzi Madonna

6. Madonna of the Goldfinch (detail)

7. Bridgemwater Madonna

8. Sistine Madonna (detail)

9. Tempi Madonna

The publication of this work was made possible by a grant from the Waldorf Curriculum Fund.