NEW CAIN, THE
The Temple Legend as a spiritual and moral impulse for evolution and its completion by Rudolf Steiner
With the ritual texts for the first, second and third degrees

• Edited by T. H. Meyer

Who was Cain and what does he represent? The first part of this book invites us to revise the traditional, biblical, view of Cain as his brother’s murderer. Rudolf Steiner shows how the original Cain was ready to sacrifice his being to something higher, but this pure impulse was perverted into the desire to murder. Our earthly knowledge has an affinity with the fallen Cain, but there is also a path by which we can ascend to the condition of Cain before his fratricide – through the stages of higher knowledge. Only the descendants of Cain, coming to full and real ‘I’ development, can sustain themselves in the face of earthly forces.

NEW EXPERIENCE OF THE SUPERSENSIBLE
The Anthroposophical Knowledge Drama of Our Time

• Jesaiah Ben-Aharon

According to the spiritual-scientific research of Rudolf Steiner, the greatest spiritual event of our time is the renewal and reawakening of the human being's supersensible relationship to higher spiritual worlds. The force that brings about this development - referred to by different names in various cultural and religious traditions - is known in spiritual science, in accordance with Christian terminology, as the 'Christ Impulse'.

NEW LIFE – MOTHER AND CHILD
The Mystery of the Goddess and the Divine Mother
Rudolf Steiner’s Madonna Painting

• Angela Lord

Rudolf Steiner’s intuitive artistic knowledge enabled him to use colours in a unique way, giving expression to their individual natures. Together with his many lectures on art, Steiner’s paintings provide artists with fresh ways of understanding colour, allowing for an entirely new creativity and aesthetics.

NEW MYSTERIES
And the Wisdom of Christ

• Virginia Sease • Manfred Schmidt-Brabant

"Christianity is not a matter of a religion or even a denomination; it is not a question of a particular culture. Christ is there for all humanity."

NINTH CENTURY AND THE HOLY GRAIL, THE

• W.J. Stein

One of the most valuable and original works on the Grail yet to appear in any language.' - John Matthews, author of The Mystic Grail

NORTHERN ENCHANTMENT, THE
Norse Mythology, Earth Mysteries and Celtic Christianity

• Margaret Jonas

The idea of "north" suggests much more than wintry cold, ice and snow. To many, it hints at something magical, enchanting and mysterious. This book explores the spiritual aspect of this attraction through a survey of ancient history, Norse mythology and contemporary studies of earth mysteries and sacred sites. From her detailed research, Margaret Jonas traces the birth of Celtic Christianity in the British Isles, Ireland, Scandinavia and Germany, revealing a time when ancient prophecies relating to the sun and divine beings came to fulfilment. A new spiritual wisdom gradually spread across Europe - not only from the south northwards, but also from west eastwards. The author describes how a paradisiacal element from the earliest stages of earth evolution was preserved and nurtured in hidden places associated with the northern mysteries.

OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF FORGIVENESS

• Sergei 0. Prokofieff

A survey of recent history reveals a gloomy picture: an ongoing series of conflicts, wars and general turmoil. As a result of all this, the human emotional landscape has become littered with angry, bitter and vengeful feelings. The modern justice system, preoccupied as it is with finding and proving guilt, does little to remedy this tragic situation. However, many individuals and groups are seeking ways to break the never-ending cycle of recrimination.

ORIGINS OF THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IN THE LIGHT OF THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES, THE

• Frank Teichmann

In conducting his research into the mysteries of antiquity, Frank Teichmann made a series of discoveries that connect directly to contemporary events and the tasks of the present-day. Whilst scholarly in nature and based on extensive documentation of historical sites, Teichmann’s work is no dry academic study. In The Origins of the Anthroposophical Society, he offers incisive new insights into Rudolf Steiner’s seminal esoteric deed – the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference of 1923-24 – and considers how it impacts us today. The Conference itself, says Teichmann, ‘...did not just appear out of nowhere, nor did it happen merely as the result of a decision on Rudolf Steiner’s part. It was prepared for long beforehand.’

PARZIVAL
An Introduction

• Eileen Hutchins

"Eschenbach is the first medieval poet to represent a character who has to win his way through trial and error, from ignorance to wisdom, and from fascination with the world of the senses to recognition of higher realms of experience. In this sense he is representative of modern man." - from the Introduction

PATHS OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES
From Compostela to the New World

• Virginia Sease • Manfred Schmidt-Brabant

Those who of three thousand years
Have no account to give
Are caught in darkness unawares
From day to day shall live.
Goethe

PHILOSOPHY AS AN APPROACH TO THE SPIRIT
An Introduction to the Fundamental Works of Rudolf Steiner

• Richard Seddon

'What was important for Steiner was less the body of his ideas themselves than the transformation they can bring about in the reader by opening the mind to the real nature of the spiritual world. Philosophy, properly regarded, is not the intellectual solution of abstract questions not being asked, but an activity that helps to resolve the questions which arise in the course of life itself. It must therefore itself become organically alive.' (From the Preface.)

PRACTISING DESTINY
Principles and Processes in Adult Learning

• Coenraad van Houten

More and more people are beginning to realize that education needs to continue throughout life. As individuals and collectively, we face the choice of either staying as we are, or striving constantly to develop.

PROPHECY OF THE RUSSIAN EPIC
How the Holy Mountains Released the Mighty Russian Heroes from their Rocky Caves

• Sergei 0. Prokofieff

A full interpretation and analysis of the Russian epic together with a clear introduction to anthroposophy.

READING THE FACE
Understanding a person's character through physiognomy

• Norbert Glas

As a boy travelling to school by tram, Norbert Glas often passed the time by studying his fellow passengers' faces. He would muse on what the shapes and contours of their noses, eyes and mouths signified. Later in life, having become a medical doctor and a student of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual-scientific world view, Glas gained numerous insights into the mysteries of human physiognomy. In this, the first translation into English of his seminal work, Glas begins by defining the three parts of the human face and explaining the importance of their relative proportions. A person with a face that is more pronounced in one of these areas will tend to have certain personality traits, as well as specific physiological characteristics. People with a strong mouth and chin, for example, tend to have a strong will and an active, driven and assertive nature.

REALITY, TRUTH AND EVIL
Facts, Questions and Perspectives on September 11, 2001

• T.H. Meyer

Using the events of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as his backdrop, T.H. Meyer studies questions of reality, truth and evil, offering important new perspectives. He shows that Anglo-American political practice (influenced by secret societies such as Skull and Bones) is based on an ideology of polarity and conflict. Meyer offers instances of this tendency, encouraging what Huntington famously referred to as a 'clash of civilizations'. For example, a week before George Bush senior spoke in Congress about the need for a 'new world order', a 'humorous' cartoon map in the Economist divided the world's continents into religious and philosophical blocks, creating a new region called 'Islamistan'.