And as the time of the fifty days neared its fulfilment, they were waiting with shared devotion for the beginning...
Three images define the Pentecost event in the Bible. First, everyone is gathered in the house. It is the community...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in Agriculture›. Shiva can speak authoritatively about the ‹sacred› in part due to her experience of the ‹profane›. She has seen the ‹Green Revolution› – and the associated use of fertilizers and genetically...
Is the earth just a collection of lifeless matter—a solid rock floating in the vast cosmic void? Is life just...
“Nothing can have a goal that it doesn’t already have as its origin,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil....
«Who is the Grail?» asks Parsifal. «There’s no telling,» replies Gurnemanz – describing the path to it: «Time becomes space here.» In this time that has become space, Richard Wagner opens a variety of windows on the Grail quest throughout his opera. Without revealing himself on the way, Gurnemanz leads...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
Thee heaven appears in ‹Faust› three times: at the beginning, when God and Mephisto negotiate the soul of Faust, at...
Our language was made for earthly things. It’s harder to speak about the realm of the ethers. They’re difficult to differentiate; their individuality isn’t distinct. They aren’t like the elements which go from warmth through air and water to earth, expressing ever-increasing multiplicity and distinctiveness. No, the ethers tend towards...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on...
He was drawn to the sea. At age 20, he joined the French Navy and began navigating on the surface...
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