English Issue 10/2024

In his Interdisciplinary Astronomy lecture series, Steiner suggested that we think of the paths of the planets not as circles or ellipses, but as lemniscates following the sun through space. This week’s issue takes us on such a lemniscate journey, back and forward. A gem from the archives of our German edition looks back to Egypt, where the sentient soul and star wisdom blossomed. Wolfgang Held reflects on how this epoch still lives within us, and how we must consciously develop the rich feeling life that was awakened back then through intimacy with the earth and cosmos. Next, we consider the strange desk fire Rudolf Steiner experienced in 1898 and the importance of that difficult year as a turning point in his path. Finally, two academics who lead a “spiritual scientific research guild and study group”, offer their reflections on the importance of Steiner’s Interdisciplinary Astronomy lecture series in pioneering a new, participatory form of scientific study wherein we can experience ourselves as a part of the cosmos again.