SCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE, THE
An Orientation and Introduction

• Johannes Kühl, Bodo von Plato, et al.

In 1924 Rudolf Steiner established the School of Spiritual Science within the framework of the newly refounded Anthroposophical Society. This volume represents a first attempt at describing the character, intentions and working methods of this pioneering School, and its place within modern cultural life. It describes the School's three prerequisites for membership and studies its connection with the Anthroposophical Society and movement. It also examines the role of its 'First Class' in relation to Rudolf Steiner's original intentions, and the responsibilities of its representatives.

SCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE, THE
An Introduction, Second Edition

• C. Kaliks • C. Haid • et al

In a thoroughly revised and updated second edition, this important volume describes the character, intentions and working methods of the pioneering School of Spiritual Science, as established by Rudolf Steiner within the framework of the re-founded Anthroposophical Society in 1924. It explains the School’s prerequisites for membership and examines the role of the First Class and its representatives’ responsibilities.

SCIENCE BETWEEN SPACE AND COUNTERSPACE
Exploring the Significance of Negative Space

• Nick Thomas

The scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner discovered that besides 'ordinary' space there is 'negative' space, or 'counterspace', which relates to a holistic conception of the world. Steiner suggested that it was important to understand counterspace as a necessary supplement to the conventional approach. His colleague George Adams found a way of describing counterspace through mathematics.

SEAT OF THE SOUL, THE
Rudolf Steiner’s Seven Planetary Seals
A Biological Perspective

• Yvan Rioux

‘There is one temple in the Universe and it is the body of Man.’ – Novalis

SECRETS OF ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY
The Two Marys, the Two Families of Jesus, and the Incarnation of Christ

• Gilbert Childs

For many years theologians have agonized over the contradictory accounts of the birth of Jesus as given in the Gospels of Luke and Matthew. How can they be reconciled, given their utterly different nature and contents? Demonstrating a remarkably erudite approach and authoritative knowledge of biblical sources and other primary texts, Gilbert Childs throws new light on arcane disputes by revealing some of the secrets of esoteric Christianity - in particular the mystery of the two Marys and the two families of Jesus. Such secrets, including the meaning of the 'virginal conception', have lain hidden and protected in Mystery Centres and by initiates over the ages, although in modern times they can be spoken of openly.

SECRETS OF THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND THE GRAIL BLOOD
The Mystery of Transformation

• Judith von Halle

The contents of this volume have arisen from my own spiritual experience, and do not represent any kind of hypothesis or speculation, except where I expressly say that I am unable to make any definitive statement about a particular event or set of circumstances...

SEXUALITY, PARTNERSHIP AND MARRIAGE
from a Spiritual Perspective

• Wolfgang Gädeke

Sexuality, partnership and marriage present us with some of the most difficult challenges and questions of our time. With society's attitudes in constant flux, some of these questions appear to be almost unanswerable. What is a healthy relationship? What role should a partner - whether male or female - play? How should sexuality play into a relationship? Are marriage and monogamy still relevant in the twenty-first century?

SHAPING GLOBALIZATION
Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding

• Nicanor Perlas

‘Nicanor Perlas has written a brilliant exposition of a new viewpoint in social theory and practice, one that applies to all of us in our everyday lives.’ — Paul H. Ray, author of The Cultural Creatives

SOPHIA MYSTERY IN OUR TIME, THE
The Birth of Imagination

• Mario Betti

"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

SOURCE OF SPEECH, THE
Word, Language and the Origin of Speech – From Indology to Anthroposophy

• Hermann Beckh

‘An abundance of books [by Beckh] came into existence whose significance perhaps will only be properly appreciated in the future.’ – Emil Bock (1959)

SOURCES OF INSPIRATION OF ANTHROPOSOPHY

• Sigismund von Gleich

CHRIST - POWERS OF KARMA - MICHAEL - THE GRAIL - SOPHIA.

SPEAKING WITH ANGELS
Life Lessons from the Angelic World

• Iris Paxino

‘If you wish to learn, you may learn. I go now and will come again. And yet I am always with you.’

SPIRITUAL EVENT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE
The Occult Significance of the 12 Years 1933-45 in the Light of Spiritual Science

• Jesaiah Ben-Aharon

Utilizing spiritual-scientific research methods, Jesaiah Ben-Aharon gives an astonishing first-hand testimony of Rudolf Steiner's declarations regarding the new Christ Revelation, and offers his own findings on the Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century. Based on occult Imaginative consciousness, he gives a unique account of events which took place in the spiritual world during the war and turmoil on earth in the period 1933-45. His words have a particular significance for an understanding of the work of the grouping of souls which the seer and spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner called the 'Michael School'.

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS OF BEEKEEPING, THE

• Iwer Thor Lorenzen

The honey bee has lived in close association with human beings for millennia. Tragically, however, humanity’s once intimate connection with this unique creature has been harmed by our increasingly utilitarian and exploitative dealings with the natural world. We are now in urgent need of re-establishing a deeper relationship, not just for the sake of the bees themselves but for the whole of nature – and of course for ourselves.

SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FUTURE MYSTERIES OF THE HOLY GRAIL, THE

• Sergei O. Prokofieff

‘And however paradoxical it may seem today, the “Grail mood” is in the fullest sense to be found in Russia. And the future role that Russia will play in the sixth post-Atlantean epoch... rests firmly upon this unconquerable “Grail mood” in the Russian people.’ – Rudolf Steiner

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Transforming Evil, Meeting the Other, and Awakening to the Global Initiation of Humanity

• Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon

With love, humour and brilliant insight, Ben-Aharon addresses some of the most critical questions of our age, ranging from artificial intelligence and global politics to education and postmodern philosophy. Although tackling diverse subject-matter, this accessible anthology – delivered initially as lectures in locations as contrasting as New York, Oslo and Munich – features a coherent inner rhythm. With his lively and intense presentation, the speaker invites us to share and participate in the creative process and the dynamic activity of incarnating new ideas – indeed, to awaken to the very Spirit of our Time.

SPIRITUAL SCIENCE IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Intellectuality Versus Anthroposophy

• Pietro Archiati

Can there be such a thing as spiritual science today? Should faith and spirit remain as purely private concerns – or, as traditionally, preserves of the Church? When Rudolf Steiner founded anthroposophy in the early twentieth century, his intention was to create a fundamentally scientific approach to the spirit. His basic works detail methods for developing spiritual consciousness, allowing the individual to replicate the results of his research. This key aspect distinguishes anthroposophy from the wealth of spiritual teachings, sects, cults and religions within the modern cultural milieu. But did Steiner fail in his endeavour to build a scientific path to spiritual knowledge? Is anthroposophy just another ‘theory’ based on intellectual thought, to be analysed and dismissed?

SPIRITUAL TASKS OF THE HOMEMAKER

• Manfred Schmidt-Brabant

What is to become of the family? What is to become of the home, which has been the foundation of society for centuries? Will it disintegrate - or can it be refounded in a new way?

SPIRITUAL TRANSLOCATION
The Behaviour of Pathological Entities in Illness and Healing and the Relationship between Human Beings and Animals
From Polarity to Triunity

• Are Thoresen

‘I wrote this book out of the needs I see at the present time. I see diseases being translocated to others – humans or animals – despite the good intentions of many therapists or doctors. The diseases are translocated because they do not exist in energetic patterns, but as expressions of spiritual beings. Energy and energy-patterns only exist in the physical world, but in the spiritual world there are only spiritual beings.’

STAR CHILDREN
Understanding Children who set us Special Tasks and Challenges

• Georg Kühlewind

"While working on this book the following happened to me: As I checked in at the airport in Hamburg a young couple was in front of me, and the mother had a three-to-four-month old baby in her arms. All of a sudden the baby turned round, looked me straight in the eye, and I was deeply shaken; for that was not the look of a baby but of a very self-aware adult, a wise one, and he appeared to see right through me..."

STIGMATA, THE
Destiny as a Question of Knowledge

• Peter Tradowsky

Stigmata - the spontaneous appearance of bodily marks in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ - have long been a controversial phenomenon. Former well-known stigmatics, such as Saint Francis of Assisi, Anne Catherine Emmerich and Therese Neumann, have mostly been associated with the Catholic Church. Judith von Halle however, who received the stigmata at Passiontide in 2004, is a member of the Anthroposophical Society, and has to date published a dozen notable volumes of spiritual-scientific research.

STORY OF EMERSON COLLEGE, THE
Its Founding Impulse, Work and Form

• Michael Spence

"Emerson was really a working together - a sum total of all the life's paths, the working of karma and the fulfilling of pre-birth impulses and intentions of so many people, both staff and students. Every person who came to Emerson in some way touched it and changed it. Each year had its own biography. It was never an institution to which people came and passed through without leaving any mark on it." - Michael Spence

STRUGGLE FOR A HUMAN FUTURE, THE
5G, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things

• Jeremy Naydler

With its wireless networks encompassing the globe, the Digital Revolution is altering the very fabric of our lives with alarming rapidity. New technologies are bringing about an ever closer union between human beings and machines, whilst at the same time transforming our planet into an increasingly hybrid ‘cyber-physical’ world.

SUN KING’S COUNSELLOR, CECIL HARWOOD
A Documentary Biography

• Simon Blaxland-de Lange

‘He [Harwood] is the sole Horatio known to me in this age of Hamlets…’ – C. S. Lewis, from Surprised by Joy

SYMPHONIES OF CREATION
The Primal Elementary Kingdoms in the Work of Rudolf Steiner

• Oskar Kürten

‘No true understanding of the world is possible without an understanding of the elementary kingdoms.’ – Oskar Kürten

TEMPLAR SPIRIT, THE
The Esoteric Inspiration, Rituals and Beliefs of the Knights Templar

• Margaret Jonas

What spiritual or esoteric practices took place within the mysterious and often controversial Knights Templar? Whilst little is known about this aspect of the Order's history, speculation and wild rumours continue to persist.

TEMPLE AND THE GRAIL, THE
The Mysteries of the Order of the Templars and the Grail and their Significance for Our Time

• W. F. Veltman

In the popular imagination, the Holy Grail – part of the legendary romance of King Arthur – belongs to the realm of myth. The Knights Templar also have a legendary, enigmatic aspect. Despite the immense volume of historical research available, plausible explanations to the ‘mystery’ at the core of their practices have yet to be revealed.

THINKERS, SAINTS, HERETICS
Spiritual Paths of the Middle Ages

• Virginia Sease • Manfred Schmidt-Brabant

Whether souls have returned in physical incarnations as Platonists, as Aristotelians, as pupils of Chartres, as members of the Dominican Order, as Templars, as Cathars, or whether these souls accompany us as spiritual beings, a stream of spiritual continuity that begins in the Middle Ages flows through human history.

THREE MEETINGS, THE
Christ, Michael and Anthroposophia

• Yeshayahu (Jesaiah) Ben-Aharon

‘How can our souls unite with the etheric Christ, experienced in the etheric world since the end of the last century? What steps should we take, in the second century of the age of Michael, to unite with Him?’

THREEFOLD NATURE OF DESTINY LEARNING

• Coenraad van Houten

'Destiny Learning', a path of adult education conceived and developed by Coenraad van Houten (based on the work of Rudolf Steiner), is here expanded to show a threefold way of working with karma: understanding, transforming and ordering. This threefold approach opens new vistas for healing relationships and conflicts, for developing creative faculties for community building, and for taking initiatives based on freedom. The author widens and deepens his previous work on the theme, showing that learning from destiny, as well as awakening the forces of will, are ongoing processes. He offers practical advice that is directly applicable to everyday life.

TIME IS AT HAND!, THE
Ahrimanic and Michaelic Immortality and the Apocalypse of the Age of Michael

• Jesaiah Ben-Aharon

‘The twenty-first century is the second, middle century of the three centuries of the present age of Michael, and it is the most decisive one. If humanity again misses Michael’s goal, it will hardly be possible to recuperate from it, and human evolution will be derailed for a long time. The present age of Michael can therefore rightly be called ‘the Apocalypse of the age of Michael’. – Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon

TONGUES OF FLAME
A Meta-Historical Approach to Drama
The Actor of the Future, Vol. 1

• Dawn Langman

Building on her fundamental texts The Art of Acting and The Art of Speech, Dawn Langman shows how the great dramas of Western heritage illuminate the evolution of human consciousness – from the past and into the future – thus providing a context in which actors can consciously evolve their art. Having laid her foundation by exploring the Eleusis Mysteries – the seed point of Western drama – she moves to the end of the nineteenth century, when drama and performance practice prepared for its next great evolutionary leap. She explores the connection of this leap to the evolutionary threshold facing human beings at the end of what occult history calls Kali Yuga.

TOUCHING THE HORIZON
A Woman's Pilgrimage Across Europe to the Castle by the Golden City

• Karin Jarman

"There is gold at the end of the rainbow..."

TOWARDS SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTER
Everyday Sacramental Meetings

• Albert Smit

In his general practice as a doctor, Albert Smit observed numerous psychological issues in his patients – issues that often caused an existential crisis for the individual concerned. These experiences led Smit to change his career and to begin a path of research to discover how genuine inner healing could be achieved. In this succinct and inspiring study, the author offers a clear way forward that allows for individual and social transformation.

TRANSFORMATION OF EVIL
And the Subterranean Spheres of the Earth

• Sigismund von Gleich

Written in the years immediately following the Second World War, this brief booklet is a powerful meditation on evil and its eventual transformation. Focusing on the realm of 'sub-nature' or 'the subterranean spheres', Gleich shows how the various layers of the earth's interior are intimately linked with the mystery of evil.

TRANSFORMING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS
The Seven Steps of Spiritual Development

• Margarete van den Brink

Individuals, groups and organizations find themselves in a process of continual change, transformation and growth. Margarete van den Brink suggests all people, whether individually or in groups, experience the same archetypal process of development, consisting of seven steps. Giving practical examples, she describes how these steps or phases can be recognized in individuals, in relationships and groups, and even in commercial and voluntary organizations. A knowledge of the various steps allows for clarity and vision, helping to prepare for the sorts of challenges and rewards we might face.

TRANSPARENT REALITIES
The Anthroposophical Impulse in the Environmental Movement and The 33-Year Rhythm in the History of the Anthroposophical Society

• Hans Peter van Manen

Van Manen presents his original ideas borne out of years of research.

TRAVELS ON THE NORTHERN PATH OF INITIATION
Vidar and Baldur, the Three Elemental Realms and the Inner and Outer Etheric worlds

• Are Thoresen

In March 2020, Are Thoresen contracted Covid-19. Whilst convalescing from the disease and suffering great exhaustion, he experienced a breakthrough in his daily meditation. Although he has always been able to ‘see’ into the spiritual world, now deeper, unknown realms appeared to his inner vision. In the soapstone surround of the fireplace in his Norwegian home, he perceived the elemental beings and forces that make up the mineral at an atomic level. A few days later, an even deeper dimension revealed itself, in the form of a void or vacuum. Here, astonishingly, was an open portal to the entire cosmos...

TREE OF LIFE AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Ancient and Modern Spiritual Paths and the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château

• Sylvia Francke

Recent works of fiction and popular history have promoted the idea that the Holy Grail symbolizes a physical bloodline resulting from the union of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. This, supposedly, is the 'secret' that esoteric movements have kept tirelessly for the past 2,000 years. From her groundbreaking research, Sylvia Francke exposes this notion to be a blatant misinterpretation of the mystery traditions that preceded and ran parallel to the birth of Christianity. She traces the ancient spiritual paths of knowledge from the Cathars, the Knights Templar and the enigmatic Rosicrucians, to the work of Rudolf Steiner in the twentieth century. Here, she concludes, is true Grail knowledge: the Tree of Life and the Holy Grail itself explained in their metaphysical context. From her research she suggests a solution to the riddle of the sudden wealth and strange behaviour of Bérenger Saunière, the mysterious priest of Rennes-le-Château in southern France.

TRUMPETS OF HAPPINESS
and Other Stories

• Brien Masters

Following on from his popular first reader Patter-Paws the Fox, Brien Masters presents us with twelve further stories for school children. This time, however, his exuberant tales are related more closely to the modern, urban experience of the town-dweller. We are introduced to many new and delightful characters, both animal and human, such as Rory the guide-dog and his master Scotty, Trevor the puzzled postman, Wriggly-Caterpillar, and Fudge-fed Bee. Once again, the narratives are complemented by the inspiring illustrations of Brian Gold.

TRUTH, BEAUTY AND GOODNESS
Steiner-Waldorf Education as a Demand of Our Time
An Esoteric Study

• Dr Gilbert Childs

Rudolf Steiner argued that the primary function of education is to exercise pupils' faculties of thinking, feeling and willing. These basic human qualities manifest in civilization as the "eternal verities" of truth, beauty and goodness, and these in turn in science, art and religion.

TWELVE HOLY NIGHTS AND THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES

• Sergei O. Prokofieff

Prokofieff draws on the whole extent of Rudolf Steiner's work and combines it with his own original spiritual research to form an intricate picture of the cosmic forces at play between Christmas and Epiphany. We are led on a tour through the circle of the zodiac and spiritual hierarchies, and shown how they form a path from Jesus to Christ. The author further explains that the Starry Script is a key to anthroposophical Christology, and shows how it relates to the conception of the First Goetheanum. Prokofieff guides us imaginatively through the interior of Steiner's architectural masterpiece, destroyed by fire in 1922, whose structure and decorations are seen to constitute a coherent esoteric map. Our task now, he suggests, is to build the First Goetheanum in ourselves and, through a new schooling of the self, strive for a truly modern path of initiation. Supplementary essays focus on the cosmic aspects of Sophia as well as the being of Michael.

TWILIGHT AND RESURRECTION OF HUMANITY, THE
The History of the Michaelic Movement since the Death of Rudolf Steiner
An Esoteric Study

• Yeshayahu (Jesaiah) Ben-Aharon

This unique work – the fruit of many decades’ research and experience – throws new light on the supersensible history and karma of the Michaelic movement since Rudolf Steiner’s death. It describes that movement’s evolution and transformation in the etheric world during the twentieth century, from the world-changing apocalypse of the 1930s and 40s through to the beginning of its incarnation on Earth at the end of last century. The book also focuses on developments in the practical and social work of building the community of the School of Spiritual Science, which embodies the new Michaelic movement in our time.

TWILIGHT YEARS, THE
Thoughts on Old Age, Death and Dying

• Almut Bockemühl

‘Growing old is a constant battle... One has the experience of being squeezed out of one’s bodily home, and one sets out to protect oneself against it, and holds on to what one can.... But when we make an effort to grow old in the right way, which means transforming what is earthly into what is spiritual, we are working at the transubstantiation of the earth.’

TWO JESUS BOYS, THE
and the Messianic Expectations of the Essenes

• Christoph Rau

The two contradicting genealogies of Jesus in the Gospels have long puzzled biblical scholars. Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research led him to the controversial theological conclusion that historically there existed two Jesus boys, born of two holy families. These two boys, he said, were necessary as part of the spiritual preparation of forming a suitable human body for the incarnation of Christ into the earthly realm. Both apocryphal texts and the writings of the Essenes – as discovered at Qumran by the Dead Sea – now appear to support this conception, with references to Messianic figures from both royal and priestly lines.