In all four of the gospels – but especially in Luke – the organ of the heart plays an essential,...
Come! Come! Thou art the Soul, the Soul so dear, Revolving!Come! Come! Thou art the Cedar, the Cedar’s Spear, Revolving!O...
Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns into action through consolidation. Will ‹is› indeed in essence sympathy or – to put it loftily – love of the world. However, not love of the world in order to...
Rudolf Steiner sharply distinguishes the spiritual meaning of the term ‘intuition’ from its everyday usage. If one generally associates the...
Jacques Lusseyran lost his eyesight as a child, but he learned to see with his inner senses. As a resistance...
A reflection on the Johannine logos The beginning of the prologue of the Gospel of John, translated from Greek, is well known: «In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God» (John 1:1). In the following reflection, I do not want to criticize this common transmission,...
When, in 1924, student Rudolf Hauschka asked Rudolf Steiner his most important question, “Doctor, what is life?”, he did not...
The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible—due to external solidity—to...
The spirit doesn’t reside in the head, nor does it do so in the pineal gland, or in the neocortex. In the latter, only the consciously appearing, poor copy of the spirit is delivered in the form of conceptions, systems, models, diagrams, constructions, etc. The real, effective spirit, lies in...
Fairy tales are a path of thinking with the heart: living pictures that carry us beyond the sensory world and...
Kafka and the Anti-Semitism of 2024. On the 100th Anniversary of the Writer’s Death. I have no mandate and am...
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