In cyclic causality, the effects themselves become the cause of the causes. The view from the center—a summation of all...
In June 2024, there was a staged reading of Jacques Lusseyran’s Das wiedergefundene Licht [And There Was Light] with Richard...
Kafka and the Anti-Semitism of 2024. On the 100th Anniversary of the Writer’s Death. I have no mandate and am not a moral authority. I am just a citizen who is amazed at how we have left Jews, our fellow human beings, alone since October 7, because that is how...
Elemental beings live on the threshold between the sensory and spiritual worlds. They belong to both dimensions, the sensual and...
Many years ago, I read the following: “The ‘I’ receives its being and meaning from that with which it is...
Our relationship to nature is largely determined by the imaginary world in which we live and by the direction in which we – unfortunately still mostly automatically – direct our consciousness. Usually, we experience ourselves surrounded by a world of objects, which could be there without us, as they appear...
The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible—due to external solidity—to...
Andreas Laudert has written a biography of Rudolf Steiner, Unter den Augen des Himmels [Under the eyes of heaven]. He...
In Jesus, the Logos itself has become a person. This book is not the first where Rudolf Steiner “became openly completely esoteric.” He’d already taken this step by writing on Goethe’s “Fairy Tale” in his Magazin für Literatur [Magazine for Literature] in 1899 (Goethe’s 150th birthday). But it is the...
Goethe maintained a lifelong interest in foreign cultures, particularly in their literature. He engaged deeply with the “oriental,” Indian, Chinese,...
Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns...
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