Marginalia on the Life of Rudolf Steiner, Number 27. While in Weimar, Rudolf Steiner maintained a friendship with the Bock family. He was probably introduced to them in October 1890 by the Danish writer Rudolf Schmidt because, like Schmidt, the engineer and brickworks owner Otto Bock (1850–1913) was originally from...
The question of war and peace has preoccupied humanity for millennia. When the Greek comic playwright Aristophanes wrote his play ‹Peace›, he was really advocating against war. Actually, we might expect that civilisation, through its moral and technical development, would learn to avoid devastating wars, but this is not the...
Alan Hovhaness was exposed to the most varied influences when he created his symphonies. His music is transcultural and anticipates future togetherness. People in the Old World often think that good music and eminent achievements can only come from the old Europe. This is certainly not true for popular music,...
How did anthroposophists live during the years of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989)? Could they work at all? For security reasons, almost nothing...
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