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An Exercise for Karmic Insight
An Exercise for Karmic Insight
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9781855842205
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: AB

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'There is the possibility of a comparatively quick maturing of insight into karmic relationships if, for a considerable time, we try patiently, and with inner energy, to picture with greater and greater consciousness an experience which would otherwise simply take its course, without being properly grasped, and fade away in the course of life...'

In this unique lecture, Rudolf Steiner presents a practical exercise for gaining insight into karma. He draws our attention to the ordinary ...read more
 
Anthroposophy in Everyday Life
Anthroposophy in Everyday Life
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104279
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

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The first lecture, "Practical Training in Thought" concerns the fundamental human activity of thinking. In the second, "Overcoming Nervousness" Steiner gives exercises in thinking that work toward strengthening the "I" which gives us inward calm and centredness. The third lecture, "Facing Karma", takes us to the heart of life, to the place where we experience suffering and happiness. Finally in the "The Four Temperaments", we learn how the union of hereditary factors and our own inner spiritual ...read more
 
Christ and the Human Soul
Christ and the Human Soul
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9781855842038
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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In these four remarkable lectures, Rudolf Steiner contends that Christ has been working on humanity’s behalf since the very beginnings of its existence, long before the inception of the Christian religion. Steiner indicates how - in both the ancient Mystery schools and in the miraculous events depicted in the Old Testament - the guiding hand of Christ shaped and developed peoples’ cognition.

The ultimate divine intervention took place in the incarnation of Christ in human form - God in ...read more
 
Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855840839
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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In addition to the outer manifestation of Christianity as we know it from history, there exists a second, hidden stream of Christian thought and development, sometimes referred to as ‘esoteric Christianity’ or ‘Rosicrucian Christianity’. Displaying an intimate knowledge of his subject, Rudolf Steiner throws light on this once secret, spiritual movement. But rather than relying on historical tradition or teaching, he presents wisdom and insight directly from the original metaphysical sources of ...read more
 
Exercise for Karmic Insight, An
Exercise for Karmic Insight, An
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855841541
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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‘There is the possibility of a comparatively quick maturing of insight into karmic relationships if, for a considerable time, we try patiently, and with inner energy, to picture with greater and greater consciousness an experience which would otherwise simply take its course, without being properly grasped, and fade away in the course of life...’

In this unique lecture, Rudolf Steiner presents a practical exercise for gaining insight into karma. He draws our attention to the ordinary ...read more
 
Founding a Science of the Spirit
Founding a Science of the Spirit
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9781855840775
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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In this fine introduction to his teaching, Steiner speaks with great clarity and precision on the fundamental nature of the human being in relation to the cosmos, the evolution of the earth, the journey of the soul after death, reincarnation and karma, good and evil, and the modern path of meditative training. Throughout, Steiner's emphasis is on a scientific exposition of spiritual phenomena.

Previously published as 'At The Gates of Spiritual ...read more
 
Four Mystery Dramas: The Portal of Initiation, The Soul's Probation, The Guardian of the Threshold
Four Mystery Dramas: The Portal of Initiation, The Soul
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9780880105811
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

Price: £19.95

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Rudolf Steiner's four mystery dramas are powerful portrayals of the complex laws of reincarnation and karma. They transport us into a landscape of the human soul and spirit, where suprasensory beings are active. Through the perception of these hidden worlds, we are given the opportunity to understand the struggles we face in attempting to apply spiritual knowledge to our everyday lives and relationships.

Written between 1910 and 1913 during periods of intense inner and outer work, ...read more
 
From Jesus to Christ
From Jesus to Christ
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855841959
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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Once experienced intuitively by early gnostic thinkers, knowledge of the cosmic significance of Christ and his mission has faded over the centuries. As theologians and historians of the Church critically scrutinized the Gospel records, their focus shifted from Christ to the human figure of Jesus of Nazareth.

Today, many are beginning a new search for an understanding of the life, death and resurrection of Christ and its meaning for their lives. In these enlightening lectures, Rudolf ...read more
 
Interior of the Earth, The: An Esoteric Study of the Subterranean Spheres
Interior of the Earth, The: An Esoteric Study of the Subterranean Spheres
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855841192
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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Modern science can speak with authority regarding only a tiniest fraction of the earth’s interior. We have, quite literally, scratched just the surface of our planet. Can we truly know what lies beneath our feet, in the unimaginably deep depths of the earth? Can the phenomenon of spiritual investigation add to this question?

In this comprehensive volume, with notes and an introduction, Rudolf Steiner’s utterances on this theme have been brought together for the first time under one ...read more
 
Karma of Anthroposophy, The
Karma of Anthroposophy, The
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9781855842199
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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Subtitle: Rudolf Steiner, the Anthroposophical Society and the tasks of its members

'If such authentic souls, such honest anthroposophists can be found ... then an upward movement and dynamic will arise. If such souls do not appear, then decadence will take its inexorable downward course... Today humanity stands before a great crisis: either it will see all civilization collapsing into the abyss, or else spirituality will raise civilization up by the power of the Michael impetus, through ...read more
 
Karma of Untruthfulness Volume 1, The
Karma of Untruthfulness Volume 1, The
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 185584186x
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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Although these lectures were given during 1916, they have much to teach us about the political spin, media distortions, propaganda and downright lies we encounter on a daily basis in public life. Rudolf Steiner’s calm and methodological approach penetrates the smokescreen of accusations and counterclaims, of illusion and untruth, surrounding the Great War. Hiding behind this fog, and under the guise of outer events, he reveals the true spiritual struggle that is taking place. His words give a ...read more
 
Karma of Untruthfulness Volume 2, The
Karma of Untruthfulness Volume 2, The
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855841916
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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Although these lectures were given during 1916, they have much to teach us about the political spin, media distortions, propaganda and downright lies we encounter on a daily basis in public life. Rudolf Steiner’s calm and methodological approach penetrates the smokescreen of accusations and counterclaims, of illusion and untruth, surrounding the Great War. Hiding behind this fog, and under the guise of outer events, he reveals the true spiritual struggle that is taking place. His words give a ...read more
 
Karma of Vocation, The
Karma of Vocation, The
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9780880100861
Publisher: Steiner Books
Format: PB

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Steiner takes us behind the scenes of routine activities, showing how the combined vocational work of all humanity affects the higher suprasensory realms. This activity mobilizes forces that lead to future worlds, which is the 'karma of vocation'. No human work is insignificant; it all contributes to grand cosmic processes.

Trans. Olin D. Wannamaker (10 lectures, Dornach, November 4-27, 1916, GA 172); 232pp; ...read more
 
Karmic Relationships volume 1
Karmic Relationships volume 1
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0854402608
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

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During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the underlying laws of reincarnation and karma, and explore in detail the incarnations of certain named historical figures. In Rudolf Steiner's words, the study of karma is '?a matter of penetrating into the most profound mysteries of existence, for within the sphere of karma and the course it ...read more
 
Karmic Relationships volume 2
Karmic Relationships volume 2
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0854402810
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

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Individual karmic relationships in history - for example Marx and Engels - as well as surveying karma in human life, the shaping of karma after death, and the "cosmic form" of karma.


Trans: G. Adams, rev. M. Cotterell, C. Davy, & D. S. Osmond (16 lectures, Dornach, between 6 Apr-29 Jun 1924, GA ...read more
 
Karmic Relationships volume 3
Karmic Relationships volume 3
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0854403132
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

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During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the underlying laws inherent in reincarnation and karma, and explore in detail the incarnations of specific historical figures. In Rudolf Steiner's words, the study of karma is "... a matter of penetrating into the most profound mysteries of existence, for within the sphere of karma and the ...read more
 
Karmic Relationships volume 4
Karmic Relationships volume 4
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0854404120
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

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The karmic groups of souls connected to Aristotelianism and Platonism, the karma of the anthroposophical movement, as well as the individual incarnations of Ernst Haeckel, Vladimir Solovioff and others. This new edition also includes Steiner's last address.

Trans: G. Adams, C. Davy, & D. S. Osmond (11 lectures, Dornach, between 5-24 Sept 1924, GA ...read more
 
Karmic Relationships volume 5
Karmic Relationships volume 5
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0854404325
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

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The difference between "moon karma" and "sun karma", the influences of Christian and Mohammedan thinking, the transformation of inner human qualities from one life to the next, and much more.

Trans: D. S. Osmond (7 lectures, Prague & Paris, between 29 Mar-25 May 1924, GA ...read more
 
Karmic Relationships volume 6
Karmic Relationships volume 6
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 085440242X
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

Price: £8.00

Currently out of print.

A study of the karma of the anthroposophical movement and society, the spiritual gates of the sun and moon, and much more.

Trans D.S. Osmond (9 lectures, various cities 25 Jan to 20 Jul 1924, GA235, 236, ...read more
 
Karmic Relationships volume 7
Karmic Relationships volume 7
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0854402764
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

Price: £12.95

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During 1924, before his last address in September, Rudolf Steiner gave over eighty lectures on the subject of karma to members of the Anthroposophical Society. These profoundly esoteric lectures examine the underlying laws inherent in reincarnation and karma, and explore in detail the incarnations of specific historical figures. In Rudolf Steiner's words, the study of karma is "... a matter of penetrating into the most profound mysteries of existence, for within the sphere of karma and the ...read more
 
Manifestations of Karma
Manifestations of Karma
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855840588
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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Why do people have such differing events and circumstances to deal with in their lives? What are the meanings of diseases, illnesses, accidents and natural disasters? From his clairvoyant spiritual research, Rudolf Steiner speaks of karma, or destiny, as a reality - an actual scientific phenomenon which can and should be understood today.

We create our own karma in all areas of existence, says Steiner, laying the foundation in one incarnation for the following one. We cannot seek for a ...read more
 
Necessity and Freedom
Necessity and Freedom
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880102608
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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The age-old question of free will is still a mystery to most people today. Even religious and philosophical circles have difficulty reconciling the concepts of morality, destiny, karma, and necessity with true freedom. Steiner illuminates questions of freedom and necessity, and guilt and innocence, by discussing various aspects of evolution, history, and culture and showing that human beings carry the responsibility for these developments. He shows that the past represents necessity, whereas ...read more
 
Occult History
Occult History
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 085440371X
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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These lectures are concerned with spiritual forces and influences working in world history and in the karma of human beings. Steiner's penetrating insights into the events and personalities history are one of his major contributions to modern times.

Steiner's focus here is on the Babylonian and Greek cultures and the threads that run between individual personalities—Plato, Copernicus, Raphael, and Galileo—and the evolution of humanity as a whole. He shows the inadequacy of viewing ...read more
 
Occult Science: An Outline of Esoteric Science
Occult Science: An Outline of Esoteric Science
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855841363
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

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Out of his training as a scientist, Steiner developed a "science of the spirit" with the same rigorous impersonal discipline as used in the hard sciences or mathematics. Here he discusses such themes as the higher spiritual members of the human being, the life of dreams and sleep, reincarnation and karma, the life between death and rebirth, and the path to higher development. This book also contains a comprehensive discussion of the evolution of the Earth and ...read more
 
Reincarnation and Karma
Reincarnation and Karma
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880105011
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

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“Just as an age was once ready to receive the Copernican theory of the universe, so is our own age ready for the ideas of reincarnation and karma to be brought into the general consciousness of humanity.” —Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner introduced the West to his detailed, scientific knowledge of reincarnation and karma. He gave concrete descriptions of the way individuals metamorphos during the course of successive incarnations and specific examples of how karma works.

Steiner also ...read more
 
Significance of Spiritual Research for Moral Action, The
Significance of Spiritual Research for Moral Action, The
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880101016
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: BT

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Here Steiner counters the notion that esoteric inner development is outside the realm of morality. Steiner says here:

"People continually embrace illusions. they fancy themselves separate by virtue of what is enclosed within their skins.... At the moment in which man realizes that he is embedded within the total organism of earth and has no business being a festering boil on the earth's body—at that moment there exists an objective basis for morality."

In this lecture, Steiner ...read more
 
Souls' Awakening, The
Souls
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0880104260
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

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Rudolf Steiner said of his mystery dramas—written between 1910 and 1913—that they contain the whole essence of anthroposophy and that if, through some unlikely chance, only these dramas were to survive, the essential content of anthroposophy would nevertheless be preserved. Steiner’s dramas powerfully portray the complex processes of reincarnation and karma. In them, we are led to inhabit the living landscape of the human soul and spirit, where suprasensory beings weave destinies.

Here ...read more
 
Theosophy
Theosophy
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 1855841312
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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Given his energetic involvement in practical initiatives and extensive lecturing, Rudolf Steiner had little time to write books. Of those he did write - belonging almost entirely to the earlier years of his work - four titles form an indispensable introduction to his later teaching: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, Occult Science, The Philosophy of Freedom and Theosophy.

Theosophy focuses on a psychology based not on the usual duality of body and mind, but on the more ancient division of ...read more
 
Theosophy of the Rosicrucian
Theosophy of the Rosicrucian
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 0
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: HB

Price: £9.00

An excellent overview of Steiner's fundamental views on the nature and constitution of the human being, life after death and before birth, the laws of karma, the epochs of evolution, the nature of initiation and the future of humanity. The forms an important part of Steiner's basic ...read more
 
Way of Self Knowledge, A: Meditation and the Soul's Path to Spiritual Experience
Way of Self Knowledge, A: Meditation and the Soul
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9780880104432
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Format: PB

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I hope that reading this book can become a kind of inner conversation. If this conversation unfolds in such a way that it reveals the hidden inner forces that can be awakened in every soul, then reading this book may lead to genuine, inner soul work. As a result you may find yourself gradually impelled to undertake that journey of the soul which truly leads to vision of the spiritual world.

Part one, "A Way of Self-Knowledge," contains eight meditations that take the reader on a journey ...read more
 
Western Approach to Reincarnation and Karma, A
Western Approach to Reincarnation and Karma, A
by Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 088010399x
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

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Edited by René Querido. René Querido presents an historical overview of the western perspective of karma and rebirth, which he places in context with the spiritual-scientific research of Rudolf Steiner. He has chosen a representative selection of Steiner's lectures and writings that discuss the causes and effects of karma in relation to world events, natural phenomena, illness, and much ...read more
 

Life and Times of Rudolf Steiner, The: Volume 2: Origin and Growth of His Insight
Life and Times of Rudolf Steiner, The: Volume 2: Origin and Growth of His Insight
by Emil Bock
ISBN: 9780863156847
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

Price: £16.99

Not yet published - due 21 May 2009

Emil Bock lectured widely on Rudolf Steiner after the Second World War, and during the course of his research he uncovered many previously unknown aspects of Steiner’s life. This book, the second of two volumes, explores some of the themes and ideas in Steiner’s work, as well as exploring the nature of destiny.

The early years of Jesus, the Christmas festival and the break from the Theosophical Society to the Anthroposophical Society are just ...read more
 
Inner Development
Inner Development
by Valentin Tomberg
ISBN: 0880103639
Publisher: Anthroposophic Press
Format: PB

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The focus of these lectures is the spiritual work in the "school" or community of Michael. What does this mean? At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Michael wrought a mighty deed in the spiritual worlds: he revealed the new mystery which shines forth on earth in the form of anthroposophy. Its content is the renewal of the cognition of the mysteries of nature and of the cognition of the mysteries of karma or human destiny. Souls drawn to this school have a special relationship ...read more
 
Seeds for Social Renewal: The Camphill Village Conferences
Seeds for Social Renewal: The Camphill Village Conferences
by Karl König
ISBN: 9780863157042
Publisher: Floris Publishers
Format: PB

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In these lectures König explores the human being and social life, the individual and community, from an imaginative and often radical perspective. These explorations range majestically from masks and archetypal images, the threefold constitution in man and woman, the karma of vocation, and the fundamental social law, to the place of work, religion and culture within the threefold social organism, and karma and reincarnation.

These lectures arose from Karl König's experiences in building ...read more
 
Rudolf Steiner's Core Mission
Rudolf Steiner
by T.H. Meyer
ISBN: 9781906999100
Publisher: Temple Lodge
Format: PB

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subtitle: The Birth and Development of Spiritual-Scientific Karma Research

Rudolf Steiner's core mission, repeatedly delayed due to the incapacity of colleagues, was to pursue contemporary spiritual-scientific research into the phenomena of reincarnation and karma. This stimulating book describes the winding biographical path this mission took, and in particular focuses on the mystery of Rudolf Steiner's connection with the influential medieval philosopher and theologian, Thomas Aquinas. ...read more
 

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