Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats,...
“As long as one doesn’t see their own part in a wound, the healing power cannot come.” Joachim Eckl said...
This juxtaposition of depth and height, visible at the Externsteine, can be found in practically all forms of initiation because it is essentially a path that leads from the depths to the heights—or, to express it in two concepts used to describe initiation, from catharsis (purification) to photismos (enlightenment). The...
A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two...
Sometimes, everyday life is better than secluded meditation to get to the bottom of one’s own soul. When we talk...
The fairy tale in this issue speaks of three brothers: “Faith,” “Love,” and “Hope.” Where do these names come from? The search for clues leads to Paul’s “Song of Songs.” He was the first to characterize these three Christian virtues. From Paul, the path leads back to Plato. The three...
‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
If you ask people what is sacred to them, after some consideration, they’ll offer an answer: family, tranquility, freedom, peace, and many other things—depending on the individual—even “my soccer club” or “the work of Rudolf Steiner.” But what the sacred itself is remains elusive. The Romanian religious philosopher Mircea Eliade...
That’s the feeling when you walk in the countryside, that feeling of fullness, often also of beauty. Certainly also about...
The perception of the other takes place in the tension between self-surrender and self-assertion. When two people meet, we attempt...
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