Recently a friend sent me a poem, the religious hymn ‹Lord of the Dance› by Sydney Carter (The United Methodist...
The Mysteries of Eleusis, located near Athens, can be thought of as the “Mysteries of Mysteries.” Its cult was based on the myth of the abduction of Persephone by Hades, the god of the underworld; the mourning of her mother Demeter; the resulting barrenness of the Earth; and the renewal...
In his new book, Wolfgang Gädeke shines a light on the origins of the Christian Community. He deconstructs myths, organizes...
Prayers are invisible arrows that we aim directly at God. These arrows do not always reach their target. In times...
When a being evolves, is it still the same being, or does it become something else? Does this also apply to a being like Michael? Might Michael appear today not with a spear but with a magic wand that animates matter. Rudolf Steiner’s idea that “self-knowledge is rooted in world-knowledge;...
The new pope is a cosmopolitan. He has French, Spanish, Italian, and Cuban roots. His ancestors came from New Orleans....
Our longing for revelation of the universe culminates on St John’s Day, the only Christian festival of the year named...
Marginalia on Rudolf Steiner’s Life and Work 26 In his Autobiography, Rudolf Steiner wrote in detail about a personality who would later turn both against him and Anthroposophy: the “liberal politician” Dr. Heinrich Fränkel (1859–1939), “an adherent of Eugen Richter and politically active in the same spirit.” Richter represented the Deutsche...
Every temple is a bridge, a bridge between the human being and God, humanity and divinity. In the case of...
Anthroposophists have always heard that the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) was not the incarnation of the Maitreya Bodhisattva of...
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