They were handsome, smoked a lot, loved women, nature, and light—and they resisted the Nazi occupation. Albert Camus and Jacques...
Herein lies the paramount importance of memory as the stepping-stone from sentient to intellectual soul. Memory, as the German word...
Rudolf Steiner sharply distinguishes the spiritual meaning of the term ‘intuition’ from its everyday usage. If one generally associates the word with a somewhat unclear, unconscious, and emotional intuition, then intuition in anthroposophy is comparable to the clear, pure concept of a mathematical theorem. ‘Intuition’ is the first supersensory form...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
Every increase, every true higher development of the organism, can only be achieved by outgrowing itself. Each expansion is followed...
When I make my way through a bewildering landscape, after a long and strenuous effort, and can survey the whole scene from atop a mountain peak, many things become clear—almost as if in one fell swoop. Some things I had to laboriously explore “down below”; others were not even on...
Life is always designed. It is always a present appearance that changes in time. In general, we perceive as alive...
SteinerBooks, the publishing house for Rudolf Steiner’s works in the United States, has just opened a new bookstore at their...
With their upright posture, human beings lose a large part of their outer capacity for movement. At the same time they lose the stability that is given in the animal by its quadrupedalism and low centre of gravity. The human centre of gravity lies above the middle of the body,...
Who was Arthur Owen Barfield? Rudolf Steiner’s foremost interpreter in the English-speaking world, some might say; the «wisest friend» of...
The path to thinking and ‹seeing› of the heart goes through the sacrifice of everything familiar, all elements of the...
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