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“Pueden ser antropósofos quienes sienten determinadas cuestiones sobre la esencia del hombre y del mundo como una necesidad tan vital como la que se siente cuando tenemos hambre y sed”: con estas pal

"ebemos considerar el Karma como ""la leyy espiritual de las causas"". No puede concebirse el Karma sin la producción de un efecto que recaiga sobre el objeto donde se dirige o el ser que lo ha provocado:Podemos llamar ley de Karma a una ley de causa y efecto con la condicion de que el efecto recaiga siempre sobre la causa. Encontramos esa ley en el mundo entero mientras la consideremos como algo espiritual.Las revelaciones del Karma son numerosas, variadas y se manifiestan en los dominios mas distintos. Las corrientes karmicas del individuo, de la humanidad, de la Tierra y del Universo se combinan y la vida no puede ser comprendida si en cada uno de estos actores no se sabe desenredar la accion simultanea de esas corrientes."

El fondo del Océano Atlántico fue un continente durante un millón de años, escenario de una civililzación absolutamente distinta a las modernas. En este libro se describen detalles de nuestros antepasados atlantes, habitantes de estas tierras hundidas en el decimo milenio A.C. Su caracter animico, su naturaleza interna y las condiciones en las que vivieron derivan en la historia que hoy conocemos de las actuales Asia, Africa, Europa y America.

In the years 1884-1897 Rudolf Steiner edited Goethes scientific writings for the series "German National Literature" of the publisher Kurschner.In Goethes works, each individual experience is not an end in itself, but serves to substantiate a single, great idea: the unceasing harmonious becoming of the universe, revealed in this volume."The dominant influence in Steiners life was that of Goethe. In 1833 he was invited to edit Goethes scientific writings for the planned canonical edition, and his first publications, dating from 1866, are on Goethe. In 1890 he left Vienna and for six years went to work at the Goethe Archives in Weimar, strong not only in an orthodox culture that the following year would earn him a degree in philosophy at Rostock, but also in a very large body of general knowledge about all known disciplines."James Webb

Nos anos 1884-1897, Rudolf Steiner editou os escritos científicos de Goethe para a série "Literatura Nacional Alemã" de Kürschner.Na obra de Goethe, cada experiência individual não é um fim em si, ma

Temas abordados: - La doctrina del Logos - Esoterismo cristiano. El divino antecesor del ser humano - La misión de la Tierra - La resurrección de Lázaro - La iniciación precristiana. Las bodaás de Ca

"Doce años de trabajo intensivo han pasado desde que Rudolf Steiner salió al encuentro de actores desengañados y en septiembre de 1924 diera diecinueve conferencias en el taller de carpinteros del Goetheanum quemda. Con la perdida de la "Casa de la Palabra" se perdio tambien la calida acustica que latia en la cupula, y el trabajo plastico de la madera viva". Con estas palabras, Marie Steiner puso de manifiesto la importancia de devolver al Habla la cualidad escultorica y artistica que pervive en el alma de los sonidos del lenguaje. Estas conferencias son una autentica inspiracion para cualquier persona que a traves de la armonizacion de la expresion del cuerpo, el gesto y la palabra desee volver a hacer de la Comunicacion un Arte.

"Muchas veces se tiene la impresión de que los signos y los símbolos son algo arbitrario, que simplemente tienen un significado convencional. Esto de ninguna manera es así. El propósito de esta obra es comprender su sentido, llegar a comprender su esencia, reconocer la realidad de tales simbolos.Formas y numeros, su significado espiritual. Ejercicio para lograr la luz interior. Relacion de medidas del cuerpo humano y el Arca de Noe. Los efectos de las construcciones arquitectonicas y las formas sobre los seres humanos. El arte gotico como creacion de Iniciados, su contraste con el mundo de las formas que rodean al ser humano de la actualidad. El simbolo de la serpiente como ser terreno, del pez como ser acuatlco, de la mariposa como ser aereo y de la abeja como ser calorico.Simbologia de los numeros. El uno, imagen de la dividad indivisible. El dos, numero de lo manifiesto. El tres; involucion y evolucion, ejemplos de la naturaleza y de la historia; creacion desde la nada. La trinidad como conexion de lo divino con lo manifiesto. El cuatro, signo del cosmos y de la creacion. El cinco como numero del mal y su significado en relacion a las enfermedades y a la biografia humana. El siete como numero de la perfeccion. Los siete sellos del Apocalipsis, imagenes del desarrollo de la humanidad."

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) fundador de la Antroposofía, tuvo la potencia espiritual de una alma iluminada. Su misión esclarecedora fue constante. Este libro sobre el Evangelio de Mateo muestra su aba

If we can bring nothing up out of ourselves except fear of the illnesses which surround us at the seat of an epidemic, and if we go to sleep at night filled with nothing but thoughts of this fear, then we create unconscious replicas, imaginations, which are drenched in fear. And this is an excellent method for nurturing bacteria... - Rudolf Steiner. Based on brief, pithy quotations from Rudolf Steiners collected works, the spiritual perspectives in this volume present core concepts on the subject of epidemics. These brief extracts do not claim to provide exhaustive treatment of the subject, but open up approaches to the complexity of Steiners extraordinary world of ideas. Some readers will find these fragments sufficient stimulus in themselves, whilst others will use the source references as signposts towards deeper study and understanding.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. (From the first Leading Thought.) This key volume contains Rudolf Steiners so-called Leading thoughts and Letters written for members of the Anthroposophical Society. In brief paragraphs, they succinctly present Rudolf Steiners science of the spirit, Anthroposophy, as a modern path of knowledge. Invaluable as clear summaries of Rudolf Steiners fundamental lines of thought, they are intended not as doctrine, but as a stimulus and focus for study and discussion. Their intention, as Rudolf Steiner states, is to contribute to a unity and organic wholeness of the work of the Society without there being any question of constraint

The concepts of thinking with the heart or emotional intelligence are often used today, usually in contrast to intellectual thought. When Rudolf Steiner used the phrase heart thinking, however, he meant it in a very specific sense. Drawn primarily from his lectures, the compiled texts in this anthology illuminate his perspective that heart thinking is intimately related to the spiritual faculty of Inspiration. The heart, he says, can become a new organ of thinking through the practice of exercises that work towards the transformation of feeling, shedding its personal and subjective character.The exercise sequences presented here call for two fundamental gestures. Firstly, renunciation, which extends from an extinguishing of images engendered in meditation, through inner silence, to a conscious suppression of sense perception. The second gesture involves the development of new feelings towards natural phenomena as well as to the reports of spiritual-scientific research. By practising these methods, we can attain a kind of thinking that is in harmony with the true nature and reality of what we seek to know.Rudolf Steiners texts are collected together by Martina Maria Sam, who contributes a lucid introduction and notes.

How was the world created? Battle lines are currently drawn between two dogmatic camps: the fundamentalist Creationists who believe that creation took place in six days, and the scientific reductionists who expound theories of big bangs and so on. From a direct spiritual perception of the facts, Rudolf Steiner presents a new perspective which transcends these bipolar arguments. He affirms that clairvoyant research accords with the biblical descriptions, but he emphasizes that the text of Genesis has to be interpreted in a special way. In this extraordinary document, Steiner speaks of the six days of creation as a reawakening of the previous phases of the Earths development. He describes the work of mighty spiritual entities called the Elohim, and how they co-operated with other spiritual hierarchies in the creation of Earth. He also clarifies the relationship of the Elohim and the biblical Jehovah. In addition, Steiner discusses themes of light and darkness, the meaning of Adam and Eve, the day of rest on the seventh day, the stages of human development on Earth, and the special character of the Hebrew language. Also featured in this new edition is a previously unpublished introductory lecture on the meaning of mystery drama.

While we know of Ahriman from Persian mythology, Rudolf Steiner spoke of him as an actual, living spiritual entity. This being, he said, works to embed people firmly into physicality, encouraging dull, materialistic attitudes and a philistine, dry intellect. In these extraordinary lectures Steiner, in rare prophetic mode, talks about an actual incarnation of Ahriman on the earth and the potential consequences. Just as Christ incarnated in a physical body, so would Ahriman incarnate in the Western world - before a part of the third millennium had passed. Steiner places this incarnation in the context of a cosmic triad - Lucifer, Christ and Ahriman. Ahriman will incarnate as a counterpoint to the physical incarnation of Lucifer in the East in the third millennium BC, with the incarnation of Jesus Christ in Palestine as the balancing point between the two. Over the period during which Steiner developed anthroposophy - a speaking career that spanned two decades and more than six thousand lectures - he referred to the idea of Ahrimans incarnation only six times. These six lectures, together with an additional supporting excerpt, are reproduced in their entirety, and under one cover, for the first time.

In a concise study, Rudolf Steiner presents an inspirational sketch of the evolution of the Mysteries from ancient Persia through Egypt and Greece, to the Christian era and the present day. He traces the line of initiates from Egyptian divinities Isis and Osiris to Moses, King Arthurs Round Table and the Holy Grail in the twelfth century. Steiner focuses on the process of initiation as a historical topic: how initiation worked in ancient Egypt and in the late Middle Ages. But his presentation is also inspirational, leading to the question: How can we advance to initiation now? He underscores the potential for achieving enlightenment today without a teacher in the flesh, and explains the four stages of the process towards initiation. He also highlights the need for strenuous efforts to overcome the subtle power of evil in the form of Lucifer and Ahriman through selfless work.The four lectures collected here form an important landmark in Rudolf Steiners biography: the first being delivered on 3 February 1913 the very day that the Anthroposophical Society was founded. First published in English under the title The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity and unavailable for many years, this edition has been re-edited by Professor Frederick Amrine and features appendices, an index as well as an introduction by Robert McDermott.

In a previously-unavailable series of talks to the general public, Rudolf Steiner builds systematically, lecture by lecture, on the fundamentals of spiritual science from the nature of spiritual knowledge and its relationship to conventional science, the path of personal development and the task of metaphysical research, to specific questions on the mystery of death, the meaning of fairy-tales, the significance of morality and the roles of individual figures in human evolution, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Jacob Boehme.At the time of these presentations, Steiner had already worked in Berlin for many years, and thus, could reckon with a regularly returning audience to whom what mattered was to enter ever more deeply into the areas of knowledge that were newly opening up to them (Marie Steiner). As a consequence and through a series of inter-connecting lectures whose themes are entwined with one another he was able to communicate a coherent and challenging spiritual perception of reality, based on his personal research.Presented here with notes, an index and an introduction by Simon Blaxland-de Lange, the 14 lectures include: How is Spiritual Science Refuted?; On What Foundation is Spiritual Science Based; The Tasks of Spiritual Research for both Present and Future; Errors of Spiritual Research; Results of Spiritual Research for Vital Questions and the Riddle of Death; The World-Conception of a Cultural Researcher of the Present, Herman Grimm and The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century.

Rudolf Steiner shows how deeply and intimately human beings, the microcosm, are related to the macrocosm. But for Steiner the macrocosm is more than just the physical universe. It includes many hidden realms like the world of Elements and the world of Archetypes which lie behind outer manifestations such as our physical body. The macrocosm works within us continuously in the daily alternation between sleeping and waking and in the great cyclical interchange between incarnation on earth and our time between death and rebirth. Steiner discusses the various paths of self-development that lead across the threshold to spiritual dimensions, transforming human soul-forces into organs of higher perception. In future we will even have the capacity to evolve a form of thinking that is higher than the intellect the thinking of the heart. In this classic series of lectures, now retranslated and featuring a previously-unavailable public address, Rudolf Steiner also discusses: the planets and their connection with our sleeping and waking life; the inner path of the mystic; the greater and lesser guardians of the threshold; the Egyptian mysteries of Osiris and Isis; initiation in the Northern mysteries; The four spheres of the higher worlds; mirror-images of the macrocosm in man; the strengthening powers of sleep; the symbol of the Rose Cross; reading the Akashic Record; four-dimensional space; the development of future human capacities, and much more. The volume includes an introduction, notes and index.

Our contemporaries who wish to keep to a narrow-minded and superficial outlook, are annoyed to find that spiritual science continually seeks the whole picture that it has to create a bridge between the body and the soul, and truly explores how the psyche becomes corporeal and the body becomes psychological. How do the soul and the spirit live in human physical bodies? In our materialistic age, in which the very existence of the metaphysical is widely rejected, such questions are rarely posed let alone addressed. In this exceptional series of lectures, Rudolf Steiner speaks in scientific detail about the connection of the subtle aspects of human nature our soul and spirit to our physical constitution. At the heart of this course are the well-loved Bridge lectures, which appear in English for the first time in their wider context. Steiner discusses the solid, fluid, air and warmth bodies, and how these are connected with the various ethers, the I and human blood. He goes on to describe how ideals and ideas impact the various aspects of the human constitution how morality is a source of world creativity with moral thinking imbuing life into substance and will. Moral ideas have a positive effect, he says, whereas theoretical ones have a negative impact. In the realm of the moral, a new natural world comes into being, and thus the moral order and the natural order are intertwined. This volume also features Steiners classic lecture on the Isis legend and its renewal today as divine wisdom Sophia. Other themes include the mystery of Christ as the connection between the spiritual and physical sun; the permeation of the life of thought with will (love) and permeation of the life of will with thoughts (wisdom); the path to freedom and love and their importance in the universe; the metamorphosis of head and limbs through successive lives on earth; the threefold nature of the human form (head, thorax, limbs), the threefold nature of the soul (thinking, feeling, will) and the threefold nature of the spirit (waking, dreaming, sleeping).

Rudolf Steiner draws a clear distinction between the spiritual meaning of the word Intuition and its ordinary definition. As the highest form of spiritual perception, Intuition has an existential significance for our process of knowledge. Through systematic schooling, thinking can be developed into an intuitive organ by means of which the spiritual can consciously be understood and penetrated. Intuition can reveal the essence of the spirit, the processes through which human beings and the world came into existence, and the events in our life after death. In his later works, Steiner spoke of Intuition as a form of supersensible knowledge that could provide direct insight into practical life, as exemplified here in his commentary on geometry, architecture, education, medicine, eurythmy, painting and the social organism.The concept of Intuition is fundamental to Rudolf Steiners spiritual philosophy. It denotes a clear, pure mode of comprehension akin to a mathematical concept. We meet it in his earliest writings on Goethe, in the development of his philosophical ideas and in his many lectures and addresses. Ably compiled and introduced by Edward de Boer, this volume clarifies a concept that evolved in Steiners thinking. By following the idea of Intuition in its gradual transformation and amplification throughout Steiners writing and lecturing career, the book offers not only inspiring paths to spiritual knowledge, but also insights into how anthroposophy developed.Chapters include: The Perceptive Power of Judgement Goethes Intuition; Moral Intuition Experiencing Thinking; The Human Being Intuition as a Bridge to the Spirit; The Schooling Path Spiritual Development and the Power of Intuition; Intuition Exercises; Three Stages of Consciousness Intuition in Relation to Imagination and Inspiration; Knowledge of Destiny Intuition and Repeated Earth Lives; Intuition in Practice Examples from Various Specialist Fields.

Rudolf Steiners beautiful meditative verses for the yearly cycle have been used by countless people over the years. Their purpose is to awaken a feeling of unity with nature, and at the same time to stimulate a discovery of self. In listening to the changing language of the year and awakening a profound sympathy for it, we can in turn discover our own individual nature. Steiners original and unique meditations facilitate this process, leading to a healthy feeling of being at one with the natural world.This edition features Anne Stocktons 52 celebrated and evocative paintings, which are a wonderful complement to Steiners text. Steiners words are newly translated for this edition by John Thomson.