Rudolf Steiner has said that we must learn to live with the etheric Christ in the Earth's aura in the same way that the disciples once lived with Christ Jesus on the physical plane. To do this, it is essential to understand what took place between Christ and his disciples. In numerous lecture cycles, Rudolf Steiner spoke about the inner community of the disciples, opening up perspectives that help us see how the disciples accompanied Christ Jesus during the three years of his earthly life and after the Resurrection. Especially in his lectures on the Fifth Gospel, Steiner shed light on the...

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird der "therapeutische Blick" Rudolf Steiners methodisch aufgearbeitet. Er zeigt die Signatur einer neuen Begegnungs- und Beziehungsgestalt, in dem das Sein des Gegenübers, seine Individualität und sein Förderungsbedarf zum Vorschein kommen kann. Band II der Reihe Monographien zur geisteswissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsphysiologie und Pädagogik. "Ich möchte Ihnen erzählen, wie Rudolf Steiner Kinder, die ihm vorgeführt wurden, angeschaut hat, und was ihm wichtig vorkam zu beobachten." Ita Wegman

People will have to exchange the spirit of mere thinking for the spirit of direct vision, of direct compassion and shared experience of the Christ who is spiritually alive and walks at the side of all human souls.

"We must first become selfless. That is the task of culture today for the future. Humanity must become more and more selfless; therein lies the future of right moral life deeds, the future of all acts of love that can occur through earthly humanity." --Rudolf Steiner (Approaching the Mystery of Golgotha, pp. 67, 119)


In a lecture eight...

"Peter Selgs erhellende Kommentare zu den weit verstreuten einschlägigen Äußerungen Steiners zeigen mit überraschender Deutlichkeit, wie klar der Begründer der Waldorfpädagogik neueste Entwicklungen diagnostiziert und weit vorausschauend positiv aufzugreifen versucht hat." (Johannes Kiersch, "Erziehungskunst")

Der Geist der Gesamtheit muss letztlich als der Christus-Geist und Menschheits-Repräsentant verstanden werden, der im paulinischen Sinne im Einzelnen anwesend sein und ihn mit der Gemeinschaft verbinden kann mit seinem konkreten Mitmenschen und der tragenden Gesamtheit, deren Erfahrung sich im Ich vollzieht und zum Ursprung der sozialen Tätigkeit wird.

Maria Krehbiel-Darmstadter (1892-1943), who was killed at Auschwitz, was a highly gifted pupil of Rudolf Steiner and a member of The Christian Community. Born into a Jewish family in Mannheim, she was deported to Gurs camp in the Pyrenees on October 22, 1940, where she survived harsh conditions and helped many of her fellow inmates. Following temporary sick-leave (under police supervision) in Limonest near Lyon, and a failed attempt to flee to Switzerland, she was brought to Drancy transit camp near Paris before being taken to Auschwitz.

This book offers unique testimony of an individual...

In volume 4, Peter Selg continues his thorough and careful exploration into Rudolf Steiner's life and work, focusing on the period of 1914 to 1918 and World War I. Steiner experienced the assassination in Sarajevo as a deeply serious tragedy that would inevitably lead to war and lamented the widespread reluctance to regard such critical events with the appropriate earnestness and concern.

Steiner saw the dark time of World War I as largely the result of mounting economic tensions between England and Germany, marked by unsustainably materialistic and nationalistic thinking. In his view,...

In volume 4, Peter Selg continues his thorough and careful exploration into Rudolf Steiner's life and work, focusing on the period of 1914 to 1918 and World War I. Steiner experienced the assassination in Sarajevo as a deeply serious tragedy that would inevitably lead to war and lamented the widespread reluctance to regard such critical events with the appropriate earnestness and concern.

Steiner saw the dark time of World War I as largely the result of mounting economic tensions between England and Germany, marked by unsustainably materialistic and nationalistic thinking. In his view,...

This third volume of Peter Selg's comprehensive presentation of Rudolf Steiner's life and work begins with Steiner's invitation to lecture in the Theosophical Society during the summer of 1900. From the outset of his theosophical involvement, Steiner was resolved to serve and develop the Western path to the spirit, traversed in full, conscious clarity of thought. He was therefore critical of the tendency to avoid the modern standards of a sound knowledge process in matters of spirituality and esotericism, and instead emphasized the importance of idealist philosophy as groundwork for...

A Consideration from an Anthroposophical Point of View

The reflections in this book by Peter Selg and Sergei Prokofieff on the soul-spiritual, ethical, and medical-therapeutic issues surrounding physician-assisted suicide (and suicide as such) will provoke one's thought, feeling, and volition. Its inspiration arises from both Rudolf Steiner and the Hippocratic Oath.

Peter Selg begins by showing how Rudolf Steiner views the principle of life as immanent spirit and the living medium of the "I," or individuality and as inviolable and wise beyond our understanding. It...