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Religion & Spirituality
Rudolf Steiner devotes parts of various lectures to what he calls "the principle of spiritual economy." This is a very exceptional chapter of the story of reincarnation and karma. The etheric and astral bodies that have been... See More
Goethe's Willhelm Meister novels, widely held to be the most significant and influential in all of German literature, have traditionally been classed as Bildungsroman, or 'novels of formation'. In Goethe and the Myth of... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A meditation on music as a non-sensory experience. See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Rudolf Steiner are shown to be the great pioneers of what today is called "emergence." Parallels with the great Danish semiotician Jesper Hoffmeyer are especially striking. We see all three... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
These pieces were first published in Steiner's magazine Lucifer-Gnosis in December 1903. They are little gems that are buried in that untranslated volume. Only in his Karma lectures of 1924 does Steiner surpass the clarity... See More
History
This booklet offers excerpts from three lectures by Rudolf Steiner on ancient Greek consciousness. The lectures are disparate: they date from 1911, 1921 and 1922, and they are all different in style. But they are unified by... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This is one of the most beautiful and moving single lectures that Rudolf Steiner ever gave. He places love into a cosmic context. Only love is truly divine. It is the creative force in the world. Only love is integral and... See More
Classics
Rudolf Steiner's three essays, two on Goethe's Faust and one on his enigmatic Fairy Tale, provide an excellent introduction to the esoteric side of Goethe. See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This study begins by recapitulating briefly Rudolf Steiner's ideas about reincarnation and karma. The heart of the argument is a comparison of Steiner's views with those of John Rawls and Peter Singer, perhaps the two... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This third volume of Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works was originally his doctoral dissertation. Terse and to the point, it truly is a prelude to his later Philosophy of Freedom -- indeed, one can sense an excitement of... See More
ClassicsGoethe's wonderfully enigmatic poem "Kore" cannot be dated. It is a paean to the goddess Persephone. See More
World LiteratureThis is the second volume of Novalis' unpublished notebooks in which he speculates, often boldly and beautifully, after the manner of Fichte's Science of Knowledge. See More
Politics & Social SciencesThis first volume of Novalis Studies a la Fichte are not about Fichte, but rather original thought-exercises after Fichte's manner. Thus these studies, not intended for publication, were a kind of propaedeutic. Although not... See More
World LiteratureThis is, I believe, the first English translation of the notes that Novalis made for himself during his philosophical studies in the years 1797, and the fifth of 12 volumes of Novalis' philosophical writings as a whole. Much... See More
World Literature
This is the first of what will eventually become a 12 volume translation of Novalis' philosophical writings. Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) was a brilliantly original and spiritual thinker, whose fragments often startle... See More
Mythology & Folk Tales
This is likely the first esoteric talk that Steiner gave, originally in 1899. Thus it is important for anthroposophy generally, and specifically for its subsequent influence on Steiner's first Mystery Drama. This version was... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
I have long felt that Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom (1894) exhibits a twofold nature. Certain parts transcend the time of their writing, and stand today as fresh and valid as ever. These parts of The Philosophy of Freedom... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Three Steps of Anthroposophy: Philosophy, Cosmology, and Religion is an unusually concise and elegant formulation of many of the main tenets of anthroposophy. It is unusual in that what first began as lectures were then... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This present lecture was originally published in Steiner's periodical Lucifer-Gnosis in the October/November issue of 1903. It is truly exceptional in Steiner's work, and it is a pity that it is buried in an untranslated... See More
Science & MathsThese supplemental materials to GA 201; Mystery of the Universe: The Human Being, Model of Creation offer substantive emendations to the extant translation. They also supply color plates (produced in color however only in... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Anthroposophy: An Introduction is one of Steiner's most important lecture cycles. In it, Steiner begins anew in light of the Christmas Conference, presenting anthroposophy in a language and approach that is fresh, concrete... See More
Politics & Social SciencesThe first lecture in the important cycle contains many practical karma exercises, and the second is a subtle comparison of the results of such exercises with ordinary memory. Unlike normal "representational" memory, which is... See More
Politics & Social SciencesThis is a very important and unusual lecture, for a number of reasons. Steiner gave very few presentations at academic conferences; indeed, this may be the only one he gave after becoming the head of the Theosophical Society... See More
Biography & True AccountsAll new ideas begin outside the mainstream and gradually move in. This introduction to Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy seeks to show that many of his ideas have already entered the mainstream, or are on the cusp of doing so. See More
Religion & Spirituality
These first three lectures provide an important foundation for all that follows. What Steiner offers is actually a kind of Goethean phenomenology of karma. Two kinds of fundamentally different human encounters are read as... See More
Education & Reference"What do we have to do so that education can have a heart again?" This is the question that recurs throughout Steiner's lecture cycle of 1923. Above all, we need to learn to see all of human life as an interconnected whole... See More
Supplementary materials to the extant translation of GA 232: Mystery Knowledge and Mystery Centres (Rudolf Steiner Press, 2012) which include colored plates, much expanded notes, and several important texts from the German... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This is one of Steiner's very most important books. Written on what would turn out to be his deathbed, it contains summaries of all of anthroposophy in the lapidary form of epigrams. This is the first of seven volumes... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Immediately after the Christmas Conference, Rudolf Steiner set about to renew and deepen anthroposophy, which had been the ultimate goal of that Conference. Beginning already in January, he gave a series of nine lectures... See More
It these three marvelous lectures, Steiner first describes the karma of jealousy and mendacity. Wonder is the precondition for all cognition, and it is based on an astral apprehension of the whole, as opposed to the... See More