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A Miscellany of Books
about Anthroposophy

Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom: This series offers selections from Rudolf Steiner's lectures and writings on single topics. As an overview of Steiner's views on any of these topics, the Pocket Library is an outstanding resource (and a fascinating way to read Steiner, as well!)

The Goddess
From Natura to the Divine Sophia

Selections from the Work
of Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$15.95

The Goddess - From Natura to the Divine Sophia

 


In this collection, you will find Steiner's insights on The Goddess, including:

  • Rediscovering the Goddess Natura
  • Retracing our Steps - Mediaeval Thought and the School of Chartres
  • The Goddess Natura in the Ancient Mysteries
  • The Goddess in the Beginning - the Birth of the Word
  • Esoteric Christianity - the Virgin Sophia
  • The Search for the New Isis
  • The Renewal of the Mysteries
  • The Modern Isis
  • The Divine Sophia

This volume also features an editorial introduction, commentary and notes.

 

The Druids
Esoteric Wisdom of the Ancient Celtic Priests

Selections from the Work
of Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$15.95

The Druids - Esoteric Wisdom of the Ancient Celtic Priests

 


In this collection, you will find Steiner's insights on The Druids, including:

  • The Sun Initiation of the Druid Priests and their Moon Science
  • The Mysteries of Ancient Ireland
  • Celtic Christianity - the Heritage of the Druids
  • Teachings of the Mysteries - the Spirit in Nature
  • The Great Mysteries - the Mystery of Christ
  • The Function of the Standing Stones
  • Spiritual Imaginations

This volume also features an editorial introduction, commentary and notes.

 

Christian Rosenkreutz
The Mystery, Teaching and Mission of a Master

Selections from the Work
of Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$15.95

Christian Rosenkreutz - The Mystery, Teaching and Mission of a Master

 


In this collection, you will find Steiner's insights on Christian Rosenkreutz, including:

  • The Mystery of Christian Rosenkreutz
  • The Working of Christian Rosenkreutz Today and in the Past
  • Christian Rosenkreutz as the Guardian of Modern Knowledge
  • From Ancient to Modern in Rosicrucian Teachings
  • Christian Rosenkreutz at the 'Chymical Wedding'
  • The Cosmic Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz
  • The Question of 'Rosicrucian' Literature

This volume also features an editorial introduction, commentary and notes.

 

The Holy Grail
The Quest for the Renewal of the Mysteries

Selections from the Work
of Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$15.95

The Holy Grail - The Quest for the Renewal of the Mysteries

 


In this collection, you will find Steiner's insights on The Holy Grail, including:

  • From the Mysteries to Christianity
  • Death and Resurrection in Ancient Egypt - the Miracle of Initiation
  • The Mystery of Golgotha
  • The Mystery of the Higher Ego - the Holy Grail
  • The Grail and the Spiritual Evolution of Humanity
  • The Gnostic Crisis and the Loss of the Mysteries
  • Stages of Evolution - Archaic Clairvoyance
  • The Role of the Mysteries
  • The Secret of Evolution - the Holy Grail

This volume also features an editorial introduction, commentary and notes.

 

Atlantis
The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge

Selections from the Work
of Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$15.95

Atlantis - The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge

 


In this collection, you will find Steiner's insights on Atlantis, including:

  • The Continent of Atlantis
  • The Moving Continents
  • The History of Atlantis
  • The Earliest Civilizations
  • The Beginnings of Thought
  • Etheric Technology - Atlantean 'Magic' Powers
  • Twilight of the Magicians
  • The Divine Messengers
  • Atlantean Secret Knowledge - It's Betrayal and Subsequent Fate
  • The Origins of the Mysteries
  • Atlantis and Spiritual Evolution

This volume also features an editorial introduction, commentary and notes.

 

Alchemy
The Evolution of the Mysteries

Selections from the Work
of Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$15.95

Alchemy - The Evolution of the Mysteries

 


In this collection, you will find Steiner's insights on Christian Rosenkreutz, including:

  • Alchemy and the Rise of the Modern Mysteries
  • The Loss of the Divine and the Alchemical Quest
  • Mysteries of the Metals
  • The Standpoint of Human Wisdom Today
  • Alchemy and Consciousness - the Transformation
  • Alchemy and Archangels
  • The Alchemical Nature - Mercury, Sulfur, Salt
  • Beyond Nature Consciousness - the Spiritual Goal

This volume also features an editorial introduction, commentary and notes.

 

Answers to Questions Series: All the books in this lively and fascinating series are collections of discussions Rudolf Steiner had with the constructions workers who built the first Goetheanam. The workers chose the topics and posed the questions - Steiner answered them, and in so doing gave us some of his clearest, most straightforward, and most interesting comments on the widest possible range of subjects.

From Beetroot to Buddhism
Answers to Questions

Rudolf Steiner

$24.95

From Beetroot to Buddhism

The remarkable discussions in this volume took place between Rudolf Steiner and the workers building the first Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. The varied subject matter was chosen by his audience at Rudolf Steiner's instigation and usually Steiner answered the questions immediately. In this volume, Steiner deals with topics ranging from Christianity and Islam, Egyptian mummies, astronomy, Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Freemasonry, star wisdom, nutrition, moon and sun religions, the Mysteries, the Trinity, Moses, Easter, the Ancient Indians, Egyptians, Babylonians and Jews, Kant and Schopenhauer, and nationalism. A fascinating collection of "Steiner says." Good reading.

 

From Comets to Cocaine
Answers to Questions

Previously published as Health and Illness, Vols 1 & 2

Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$30.00

From Comets to Cocaine

 


In this volume Steiner discusses, among other things, nicotine and alcohol, causes and timing of illness, pregnancy, vegetarian and meat diets, the human ear, eye and hair color, influenza, hay fever, haemophilia, planets and metals, mental illness, the ice age, the thyroid gland and hormones, beavers, wasps and bees, the nose, smell and taste, jaundice, smallpox, rabies.

 

From Elephants to Einstein

Rudolf Steiner

$22.00

From Elephants to Einstein

 

In these discussions with the workers at the Goetheanum, Steiner fields questions and offers fascinating answers on such topics as ants and bees, shells and skeletons, animal and plant poisons, arsenic and lead, nutrition, potatoes, the human eye and its color, fresh and salt water, fish and bird migration, human clothing, opium and alcohol, thinking, bodily secretions, and, of course, elephants and Einstein. Another great collection of "Steiner says" on topics that are enlivening for their variety alone.

 

From Limestone to Lucifer
Answers to Questions

Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$26.00

From Limestone to Lucifer

 


Topics include technology, the living Earth, natural healing, color and illness, rainbows, childhood diseases, seances, sleep and sleeplessness, dreams, reincarnation, life after death, and much more.

 

From Mammoths to Mediums
Answers to Questions

Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$30.00

From Mammoths to Mediums

 


In this collections of discussions with the workers of the first Goetheanum, Steiner discusses dancing and sport; guardian angels; effects of the stars; potatoes, beets and radishes; the Druids; Roman Catholic and Masonic rituals; proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and salts; Aristotle; nutrition; blood circulation adn the heart; honesty and conscience; boredom and opinions; lungs and kidneys; fertilazation in plants and humans; light and color; breathing.

 

From Crystals to Crocodiles
Answers to Questions

Rudolf Steiner

Originally published in English as
The Human Being in Body, Soul and Spirit

Softbound

$22.00

From Crystals to Crocodiles

 


In another of his fascinating discussions with the workmen at the Goetheanum, Steiner answers the questions from the audience ranging this time from crystals to crocodiles. He discusses, amonth other things: speech and languages; lefthandedness; dinosaurs; Lemuira; turtles and crocodiles; oxygen and carbon; ancient giant oysters; the moon, sun and earth; the Old Testament; the real nature of Adam; breathing and brain activity; dreams; sugar; the liver and perception; brain cells and thinking; cancer and its origin; diabetes; the eyes of animals; Paracelsus; alcohol; and migraine.

 

From Sunspots to Strawberries
Answers to Questions

Rudolf Steiner

Originally published in English as The Evolution of the Earth and Man and the Influence of the Stars

Softbound

$26.00

From Sunspots to Strawberries

 


Here Steiner's discussions with the workers include: Lemuria and Atlantis; chinese and Indian cultures; raw food; vegetarianism; children's nutrition; manure and soil; hardening of the arteries; the sense of smell; planetary influences; weather and its causes; creation of the world; origin of the human being; Saturn, Sun and Moon; Darwinism; earth strata and fossils; Biela's comet; star wisdom; evolution of human culture; lightning; and volcanoes.

 

Other books not in the above series:

Harmony of the Creative Word
The Human Being and the Elemental, Animal, Plant and Mineral Kingdoms

Formerly titled: Man as Symphony of the Creative Word

Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$20.95

Harmony of the Creative Word - The Human Being and the Elemental, Animal, Plant and Mineral Kingdoms

 


In this important series of lectures given near the end of his life, Rudolf Steiner brought together many aspects of his research into man and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship to the ancient and sacred animal representatives--eagle, lion, and bull--and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is deepened in the second group of lectures, approach the plant and animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits--the purely spiritual beings that complement plants and animals--and the cooperation that these beings offer to mankind. In the fourth series, man himself is placed with in this harmony of nature--in the symphony of the Creative Word.

 

Chance, Providence and Necessity

Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$10.95

Chance, Providence and Necessity

 


Chance, necessity, and providence are related to love, loyalty, and grace. Into the central theme of necessity, chance, and providence, Steiner introduces a fascinating description of the nature spirits, particularly the gnomes. He also relates his penetrating insights into the question of the death of children and the significant role this plays in earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.