A Western Approach to Reincarnation and Karma by Rudolf Steiner and Rene Querido (1997) The soul’s immortality and its repeated earthly births are not new ideas in Western thought. They are implicit in the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions, as well as in some branches of esoteric Judaism and Cabbala. But it was not until the … Read more
Between Death and Rebirth by Rudolf Steiner (1975) 16 lectures, various cities, Oct. 26, 1912 – May 13, 1913 (CW 140) In these lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during and after death. On the basis of precise clairvoyant observations, he describes the events experienced during the millennium of the soul’s … Read more
The Fourth Dimension: Sacred Geometry, Alchemy and Mathematics by Rudolf Steiner (2001) 6 lectures, Berlin, March – June 19052 lectures, November 7, 1905 & October 22, 1908 (CW 324) The point, line, plane and solid objects represent the first three dimensions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a … Read more
The Inner Nature of Man And Our Life Between Death and Rebirth by Rudolf Steiner ‘When we know how to enter deeply into the realm of the soul, we reach understanding of the harmony that exists between successive lives on earth and the whole of the physical world outside us.’ – Rudolf Steiner. In these … Read more
Human and Cosmic Thought by Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner demonstrates that there are twelve main philosophical standpoints, and that the future of philosophy rests not upon defending one and refuting the others, but in learning to experience the validity of them all. What convinces us of the truth of a certain point of view? Why … Read more
An Esoteric Cosmology by Rudolf Steiner (2008) Based on a series of lectures delivered by Rudolf Steiner in Paris, 1906 and transcribed by Eduard Schuré, An Esoteric Cosmology is a concise but powerful book and essential reading for students of Steiner. A wide variety of topics are covered, including Intellect, the Mission of Christianity, … Read more
Astronomy and Astrology: Finding a Relationship to the Cosmos by Rudolf Steiner In the Middle Ages, Astronomia – one of the Seven Liberal Arts – was as much about astrology as astronomy. In fact the two disciplines only parted company in the seventeenth century, as the materialistic world-view gained greater prominence. Where once human … Read more
Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: Lectures by Rudolf Steiner 12 Lectures, Leipzig, September 2-14, 1908 (CW 106) Rudolf Steiner emphasizes the astonishing and special relationship between our own time and that of ancient Egypt–how, in the natural rhythm of the ages, the so-called third post-Atlantian (Egyptian) epoch is mirrored by the fifth (present) epoch. In this … Read more