Mario Betti

Goethe's poem, The Mysteries, and the twelve world views. Kant and world views. The development of Rudolf Steiner's research into Goethe's science, The Philosophy of Freedom, and his lectures on Human and Cosmic Thought,(1914) on the twelve world views. Phenomenalism: Look at and Listen to the World; Sensualism -Human Carnality; Materialism- 'Earth goes on standing firm.'; Mathematism - Measure, Number and weight; Rationalism: 'And behold, it was very good.' Idealism: the Logos that was at the beginning. Psychism: I am an I. Pneumatism : I am the Universe. Spiritualism - The Jacob's Ladder. Monadism - Universal relations. Dynamism - 'I am dynamite'. Realism - The World Scales. Humanus: the new human being in the third millennium. Study and Discussion

In 2014, the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland launched a series of conferences to deepen the impulse of the 1923 Christmas Conference, the event that Rudolf Steiner referred to as a "festival of consecration" for the "beginning of a turning point of time." The goal of the conferences was to develop a deeper understanding of the Anthroposophical Society's essential task and contribute to shaping its future. This volume presents six talks from the conference of February 2016, the purpose of which was to let the Anthroposophical Society as an archetypal phenomenon speak to us. This society planted a seed of humanity and the model of a legal entity whose future potential and perspectives are yet to be discovered. It is a social organism that exhorts us to put our karma in order, carry what is close to our hearts into the world, and by doing so experience the presence and support of the divine spirit. These edited transcriptions of six lectures--by Peter Selg, Stefano Gasperi, Mario Betti, Johannes Greiner, Gioia Falk, and Marc Desaules--encourage us to move closer to a deeper existential relationship to the Anthroposophical Society and movement, experienced through others and discovered within ourselves.

'The confrontation with evil manifests as a battle taking place on many levels, the outcome of which lies in the hands of each one of us alive today. The most important requisite is the creating of a space within us in which a new consciousness, the Imagination, will gradually be able to arise. Much in the future depends on whether a sufficient number of people succeed in reaching this level of experience...' - Maria Betti With the world in turmoil, the greatest challenge facing us today, says Mario Betti, is the inner transformation of our entire being. This rebirth from within heralds a new form of consciousness - a creative imaginative faculty - that is simultaneously a reawakening of the mysterious Sophia, the feminine aspect of the Divinity. Imagination allows us to behold the spiritual forces actively at work in the world, resulting in the possibility of a comprehensive rebirth and renewal of culture.

Jeder neue Tag, jeder Moment trägt für uns die Möglichkeit in sich, einen Neuanfang zu wagen. Das eigene Leben als schöpferischen Gestaltungsfreiraum zu begreifen, dessen Form- und Ausdrucksvielfalt in unseren Händen liegt, dazu möchte Mario Betti mit seinem neuen Buch anregen und lädt in gedanklichen und praktischen Beispielen ein ins Ateliers des Lebens:Lebe ich, oder werde ich gelebt? - Was heißt das, Lebenskunst? - Zwischen Schiffbruch und Aufbruch, oder die Stufen der Reife - Schicksal: Zufall, Notwendigkeit oder Freiheit? - Beruf und Berufung - Liebe und Partnerschaft - Tod wird Leben. Die christliche Dimension der Lebenskunst - Zwei Wege der Meditation - Das Leben beginnt heute - Gedichte und Meditationen