Rudolf Steiner

When asked how one might find a way into Christianity, the Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast advised, "Meditate the sacred year." In the same vein, when asked what a lifetime's study of Anthroposophy had given him, the English philosopher Owen Barfield replied, "I now have some idea of the reality of the living year." For readers who like to chew meditatively on poetry, Weekly Meditations will put them firmly on the path to realizing both of these great realities. Rudolf Steiner's weekly verses allow attentive readers to follow the course of the year in body, soul, and spirit. In addition, from the perspective of one who has sought to live inwardly with the sacred, living year, Patsy Scala's poetic reflections, which arose from her deep practice of the verses, provide an accessible and complementary guide to one's daily practice. Weekly Meditations is a book to keep handy and reread throughout the seasons of the year.

5 lectures in Berlin, October 31, 1911-December 5, 1911 (CW 132)In this most remarkable and in many ways unique course of lectures, Rudolf Steiner describes the inner experience of the states of consciousness known as the Saturn, Sun, Moon, and Earth stages of evolution. Lecture by lecture, Steiner details the experiences of these states available to one who practices the spiritual scientific path of meditation. By this means, these stages and states gain an unexpected and existential reality: suddenly, we recognize what Steiner is talking about. Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is the description of the Earth state with its experience of death, which Christ knew on the Cross at Golgotha, transforming earthly and human evolution. LECTURES: The Inner Aspect of the Saturn Embodiment of the Earth The Inner Aspect of the Sun Embodiment of the Earth The Inner Aspect of the Sun Embodiment of the Earthand the Transition to the Moon Embodiment The Inner Aspect of the Moon Embodiment of the Earth The Inner Aspect of the Earth Embodiment of the EarthInner Experiences of Evolution is a translation from German of Die Evolution vom Gesichtspunkte des Wahrhaftigen (GA 132). These lectures were previously included as part of The Spiritual Hierarchies & the Physical World: Reality and Illusion (1996). A previous translation also appeared as Evolution in the Aspect of Realities (Garber).

Steiners intensjon var å forbinde en klarsynt anskuelse av den åndelige verden med den europeiske tenkings høyeste utpregning;det naturvitenskapelige tenkesett. I boken er dette ideal oppfyllt. Her fremstilles tingenes indre sammenheng;menneskets syvdelte vesen,auraen,etterdødsopplevelsene,sjelelandet og rene åndssfærer, reinkarnasjon og karma, den indre skolningsvei med samme nøkternhet og saklig presisjon som naturvitenskapsmannens fremstilling av naturlovene. Teosofi er en milepel i vårt århundrets indre biografi; en øvelsesbok til erobring av en ny bevissthet.

Rudlf Steinerin neljäs mysteerinäytelmä "Sielujen herääminen" kertoo erään ihmisryhmän yksilöiden havahtumisesta siihen, mikä yhdistävänä ja erottavana elää heidän suhteissaan toisiinsa ja itseensä. Yritysjohtaja haluaa uudistaa liikeyrityksensä palvelemaan myös henkisiä tarpeita käytännön työssä. Hän muodostaa työryhmän, johon hän on pyytänyt henkistä koulutustietä kulkevan tiedemiehen ja taiteilijan sekä henkisen opettajan. Työtoverit kuitenkin vastustavat asiaa ja syntyy ristiriitoja, joiden kautta pinnalle nousevat henkilöiden todelliset, syvät, varhaisempiin inkarnaatioihin perustuvat suhteet toisiinsa. Jokainen joutuu kohtaamaan itsensä tavalla, joka avaa uusia ulottuvuuksia ristiriitojen tiedostamiseen ja herättää uusia sosiaalisia kykyjä. Näytelmä kuljettaa lukijan tai katsojan ulkoisten tapahtumien kulissien taakse ihmisen sielun ja hengen maisemaan. Sielujen herääminen on viimeinen Steinerin vuosina 1910-13 kirjoittamasta neljästä mysteerinäytelmästä.

Rudolf Steinerin kolmas mysteerinäytelmä "Kynnyksenvartija" vie lukijan syvälle oman aikamme kulttuuritilanteeseen. Miten yksilön tie, joka on johtanut hänet lähelle henkistä kokemista, voi jatkua niin, että ihminen kykenee kohtaamaan kynnystä vartioivan hahmon ja saa astua kynnyksen yli. Vain todellinen itsetuntemus avaa ihmiselle mahdollisuuden astua henkiseen todellisuuteen ja löytää uudella tavalla yhteisö ja oma tehtävänsä aikamme kulttuurissa. Tätä tietä uuteen kulttuuriin etsivät draaman jo tutuiksi tulleet keskushahmot Maria, Johannes Thomasius, Strader ja Capesius. Kykeneekö vanha mystien liitto, joka vuosisatojen ajan on toiminut salaisena, nyt uudistumaan ja alkaa vaikuttaa ihmiskunnan kulttuurissa?

Tämän antroposofisesti laajennetun lääketieteen perustoja käsittelevän teoksen Rudolf Steiner kirjoitti yhdessä lääkäri Ita Wegmanin kanssa. Suomenkielinen laitos on syntynyt Arto Ingervon suomennoksen pohjalta, jota Suomen antroposofisen lääketieteen lääkäriyhdistyksen työryhmä on työstänyt vuosina 2002-07. Suomennoksen rinnalla kulkee aukeamittain aseteltuna saksankielinen alkuteksti.

5 lectures, Stuttgart, Dec. 18, 1919-Jan. 1, 1920 (CW 195) During Christmastime of 1919 to 1920, Rudolf Steiner was in Stuttgart to celebrate the end of the first semester of the first Waldorf school and participate in its Christmas festivities. During his visit, he gave not only two courses for teachers (The Light Course and The Genius of Language), but also the five lectures for Anthroposophical Society members collected in this book. As with all of Steiner's lectures given around the Holy Nights, these jewel-like lectures are both inspiring and sobering. The Archangel Michael is once again the "world regent." He shows us a new path to Christ and to the spirit world, calling on us to create new relationships to spiritual realities. Yet, inertia or lack of will, materialism, and powerful opposing forces make his and our task more difficult. World War I had ended, but peace was still a distant hope. Prescient to our own moment, these stirring lectures are more relevant than ever, still inspiring a call to arms. CONTENTS: Introduction by Christopher Bamford 1. STUTTGART, DECEMBER 21, 1919: The three streams of cultural life: The Mysteries of The Light, of the Human Being, and of the Earth. 1) Origin in the old Eastern spiritual life. Social impact of the old initiation. The scientific path from above to below. Increasing filtration in ancient Greece to the abstraction of our time. Represented in the social sphere by aristocracy and feudalism. 2) Origin of the rights life in the Egyptian mysteries. Its development in Roman times. Legalization of Christianity in the Roman Catholic Church. Represented in social life by the bourgeoisie. 3) Origin of the economic life in the Nordic mysteries. Festivals related to the economic life. The way upward from below. Examples: Newton, Darwin, Mill, Spencer, Hume. The three streams rolled up together in the cultural chaos of today. Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt. The Russian revolutionaries. Opponents of Anthroposophy: Domkapitular, Ferri re. 2. STUTTGART, DECEMBER 25, 1919: A Christmas lecture. The Michaelic way to Christ. Can we still be Christians? (David Friedrich Strauss.) The anti-Christian thoughts of Tirpitz and Ludendorff. Harnack's conception of Christ. The beginning of Michael's regency in 1879. Michael today. The "cosmic lie" of the freedom of nations. The past incarnation of Lucifer and the future one of Ahriman. The Christian way as a balance between these two powers. The Christmas festival. The need for a new revelation. 3. STUTTGART, DECEMBER 28, 1919: The mystery of the human will. The connection between the will and processes of destruction. Effects of the will and the course of nature. Lucifer's incarnation in ancient China. Eastern mysteries: their becoming abstract in Greek philosophy and fixed in phrases at the present time. The preparation for the incarnation of Ahriman. The erroneous interpretation of the Gospels as a means to prepare the incarnation of Ahriman. 4. STUTTGART, DECEMBER 31, 1919: The relationship of human life to the past and the future regarded as a mirroring process. Perception of the "I" as a result of the interruption of consciousness during the night time. The necessity for the new revelation. The present day as a kind of Cosmic New Year. The necessity for a new experience of Christ. Gogarten's book Spiritual Science and Christianity. The attacks of the Jesuit Zimmermann. After the Cosmic New Year there must come a new year of the spiritual future. 5. STUTTGART, JANUARY 1, 1920: Rudolf Steiner's early essay "The Spiritual Signature of the Present." Fichte and Hegel. The dogma of revelation and the dogma of mere sense experience. Lenin's social ideas. Spiritual science strives for a social order in which a balance exists between capacities and needs, i.e., between Lucifer and Ahriman. The characteristics of present East European culture (Lenin, Trotsky) with regard to the social sphere. In Middle Europe, the denial of the German spiritual life represented by Goethe and Schiller. Heinrich Deinhardt. Cosmic New Year is a translation from the German book Weltsilvester und Neujahrsgedanken (GA 195). A previous translation was published in 1932 under the same title.

Forfatteren beskriver her det han omtaler som Goethes verdensanskuelse og gir ei framstilling av det ei betraktning av Goethes åndsliv har gitt han.

I de tre foredragene "Nordens folk mellom øst og vest" beskriver Steiner Norges og Sveriges spirituelle fremtidsoppgave i lys av den sosiale situasjon i Europa etter den første verdenskrig. Foredraget "Kristus i det tyvende århundre" handler om den nye Kristusåpenbaring og dens betydning for samfunns- og kulturutviklingen i vårt århundre.

I Fra Jesus til Kristus gir Rudolf Steiner en grunnleggende innføring i sin kristologiske forskning. Her rettes nytt lys på sentrale motiver i kristendommen og gjennom en ny forståelse av mysteriet på Golgata beskrives ikke bare en historisk hendelse, men et mulig nytt trinn i jordens og menneskehetens åndelige evolusjon. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) var filosof, pedagog, naturvitenskapsmann og dessuten grunnlegger av antroposofien. Fra Jesus til Kristus er basert på en forelesningsrekke han holdt i Karlsruhe i 1911.