6 lectures, Hanover, Dec. 1911 - Jan. 1912 (CW 134)

"When we consider the plant world in all its greenery, or the stars with their golden glory; when we look at all this without forming any judgment from within ourselves but instead permit the things to reveal themselves to us... then all things are transformed from what they were in the world of the senses into something entirely different--something for which no word exists other than one which is taken from our very life of soul." --Rudolf Steiner

One of Rudolf Steiner's most fundamental objectives was...

13 lectures, Berlin, Jan.-Jun. 1908 (CW 102)

"We learn gradually to raise our eyes not only to material existence; instead we discover spiritual entities and their actions wherever we look in the universe... We get to know the deeds of these spirits. We are alive and active and we are within the spiritual entities and their activities." --Rudolf Steiner

This classic series of lectures presents systematic knowledge on many different spiritual entities, ranging from the higher hierarchies of angels down to hindering demons. Basing his presentation on...

16 lectures, various cities, Nov.-Dec. 1920 (CW 202)

"Our contemporaries--who wish to keep to a narrow-minded and superficial outlook, are annoyed to find that spiritual science continually seeks the whole picture--that it has to create a bridge between the body and the soul, and truly explores how the psyche becomes corporeal and the body becomes psychological."

How do the soul and the spirit live in human physical bodies? In our materialistic age, in which the very existence of the metaphysical is widely rejected, such questions are rarely posed let alone addressed. In this...

Rudolf Steiner: Die Philosophie der Freiheit - Grundzuge einer modernen Weltanschauung. Vollstandiger Text der Ausgabe von 1918."

From the preface: "One who undertakes to represent certain results of scientific spiritual research of the kind recorded in this book, must above all things be prepared to find that this kind of investigation is at the present time almost universally regarded as impossible. For things are related in the following pages about which those who are today esteemed exact thinkers, assert that they will probably remain altogether indeterminable by human intelligence. One who knows and can respect the reasons which prompt many a serious person to assert this impossibility, would fain make the attempt...

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (1861 - 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he founded a spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy; other influences include Goethean science and Rosicrucianism. In this book: An Outline of Occult Science The Way of Initiation or, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher...

Rudolf Steiner The unconscious wisdom contained in the beehive - the hive is in reality permeated by love - and how this relates to the human experiences of health, civilization, and the cosmos is amply described in this unique book. Nine of fifteen lectures given by Rudolf Steiner to the workmen at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland in 1923. They are part of the lecture series entitled, The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.

This book offers considerable help to both teachers and parents in supporting children at crisis moments in their development. Clues as to what is appropriate as the child wrestles with leaps in growth and consciousness that are demanding and exhilarating. Monica Ruef has compiled a comprehensive collection of what Rudolf Steiner has said and written about the nine year change and the three important ages of childhood: age 7, age 9, and age 12. Rudolf Steiner (1861 to 1925, Austrian) introduced and explained a unique and effective way to view child development, in seven-year cycles. Within...

10 lectures, various cities, Jan.-Dec. 1913 (CW 150)

"By cultivating spiritual thoughts here on Earth we can provide nourishment for the dead.... When fields lie fallow, they produce no crops to feed humanity, and people may die of starvation. The dead cannot die of starvation, of course; all they can do is suffer when spiritual life lies fallow on Earth." --Rudolf Steiner


The founding of the Anthroposophical Society in 1913 marked a major change in Rudolf Steiner's work. Although Steiner had always been an independent spiritual researcher, the break...