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    ANGELS

    ANGELS

    'Selected Lectures' series

    Religious and spiritual writings have always made reference to beings from the spiritual hierarchies, especially those known in Christian tradition as Angels. These spirits are the closest to human beings and act as our invisible guides and companions. They influence the life of the individual as well as the evolution of humanity and the cosmos.

    ARCHANGEL MICHAEL

    ARCHANGEL MICHAEL

    His Mission and Ours

    Edited and introduced by Christopher Bamford

    "The Michael age has dawned. Hearts begin to have thoughts. Enthusiasm no longer flows from mystical obscurity, but from the inner clarity that thought conveys. To grasp this is to receive Michael into one's soul. Thoughts that today seek to grasp the spirit must spring from hearts that beat for Michael as the fiery cosmic prince of thought." Rudolf Steiner

    BECOMING THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL'S COMPANIONS

    BECOMING THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL'S COMPANIONS

    Rudolf Steiner's Challenge to the Younger Generation

    'The younger generation is always faced with the dilemma of being heir to the old while about to become a guide for the new.... This cycle of lectures "to the younger generation" speaks of a pathway to a Michaelic harvest for ears that have the goodwill to hear.' - Carlo Pietzner

    THE FALL OF THE SPIRITS OF DARKNESS

    THE FALL OF THE SPIRITS OF DARKNESS

    'Spirituality will come to human beings because Michael won his victory in 1879 . . . On the other hand, the spirits of darkness are now here among us’. - Rudolf Steiner (from lecture 13)

    THE FALL OF THE SPIRITS OF DARKNESS

    THE FALL OF THE SPIRITS OF DARKNESS

    The Spiritual Background to the Outer World: Spiritual Beings and their Effects, Vol. 1

    Speaking towards the end of the catastrophic Great War, Rudolf Steiner reveals the spiritual roots of the crises of our times. Since 1879, he says, human minds have been influenced by backward angels, ‘spirits of darkness’, who – following their defeat in battle with Archangel Michael – were forced out of the heavens and ‘fell’ to the earth. This war in the spiritual worlds had consequences, and it is essential that people today are sufficiently awake to the retrogressive influences around them. In a positive sense, we can choose freely to engage with the spirits of light, who seek to emancipate human beings from bonds of race, nation and blood.

    GOOD AND EVIL SPIRITS

    GOOD AND EVIL SPIRITS

    and their Influence on Humanity

    ‘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

    GROWING OLD

    GROWING OLD

    The Spiritual Dimensions of Ageing

    ‘And that is one thing we need to relearn, that all of life brings its gifts – not only the first two or three decades.’ – Rudolf Steiner

    GUARDIAN ANGELS

    GUARDIAN ANGELS

    Connecting with our Spiritual Guides and Helpers

    Throughout the ages, traditional folklore has spoken of guardian angels as spirits who guide and protect human beings. In modern times, however, their existence has largely been written off as myth and superstition.

    THE INCARNATION OF AHRIMAN

    THE INCARNATION OF AHRIMAN

    The Embodiment of Evil on Earth

    While we know of Ahriman from Persian mythology, Rudolf Steiner spoke of him as an actual, living spiritual entity. This being, he said, works to embed people firmly into physicality, encouraging dull, materialistic attitudes and a philistine, dry intellect. In these extraordinary lectures Steiner, in rare prophetic mode, talks about an actual incarnation of Ahriman on the earth and the potential consequences. Just as Christ incarnated in a physical body, so would Ahriman incarnate in the Western world - before 'a part' of the third millennium had passed.

    THE INFLUENCES OF LUCIFER AND AHRIMAN

    THE INFLUENCES OF LUCIFER AND AHRIMAN

    Human Responsibility for the Earth

    In these lectures, Steiner focuses on the vital task of developing the proper orientation toward a free spiritual life. With great compassion and understanding, he offers telling examples of how humanity must walk a conscious middle way between the two tempting powers of Lucifer and Ahriman. He describes the incarnation of Lucifer in the third millennium before the Christ event, out of which flowed not just the wisdom of paganism, but also the conscious intellect we enjoy today. Ahriman, on the other hand, is shown approaching human beings through such phenomena as materialism, nationalism, and literalism, all in preparation for his incarnation in the third millennium.

    ISIS MARY SOPHIA

    ISIS MARY SOPHIA

    Her Mission and Ours

    Compiled with an introduction, commentary and notes by Christopher Bamford

    The rebirth of the feminine surrounds us in many forms, from the global movement for women's rights to a renewed interest in feminine spirituality, the Goddess, and the Divine Mother. What is the spiritual meaning of this rebirth? What is the feminine divine? Who is she?

    MICHAEL’S MISSION

    MICHAEL’S MISSION

    Revealing the Essential Secrets of Human Nature

    ‘...This will generate a struggle covering the face of the whole earth. The one and only remedy for this nonsense being made of human evolution will be the path that can lead humanity to the spirit – the path of Michael, which finds its continuation in the path of Christ.’ – Rudolf Steiner

    THE MISSION OF THE FOLK-SOULS

    THE MISSION OF THE FOLK-SOULS

    in relation to Teutonic Mythology

    'If we wish to understand the inner life of an individual we must study the soul as well as the body, and if we desire to gain real insight into national characteristics we must explore the psychic and spiritual element underlying them. This psychic and spiritual element, however, reflects not merely the activity of individual human souls working in concert, but has its origin in a higher order... Either one must seek a basis for the psychology of peoples in a spiritual reality or one must abandon such a psychology in total.' - Rudolf Steiner (from the Preface)

    NATURE AND SPIRIT BEINGS

    NATURE AND SPIRIT BEINGS

    Their Activity in our Visible World

    ‘Suppose you have seen an event, have formed an idea about it, and you say something that is not true – in other words, something that is a lie. Then what flows from the object is correct and what flows from you is false and this collision is a terrible explosion; and each time you do this, you attach a gruesome being to your karma which you cannot get rid of again until you have made good what you lied about.’ – Rudolf Steiner

    NATURE SPIRITS

    NATURE SPIRITS

    Selected Lectures

    Based on knowledge attained through his highly-trained clairvoyance, Rudolf Steiner contends that folk traditions regarding nature spirits are based on spiritual reality. He describes how people possessed a natural spiritual vision in ancient times, enabling them to commune with nature spirits. These entities - which are also referred to as elemental beings - became immortalised as fairies and gnomes in myth, legend and children's stories.

    THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES  AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD

    THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD

    Zodiac, Planets and Cosmos

    The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

    In these remarkable lectures, Rudolf Steiner re-establishes the human being as a participant in an evolving, dynamic universe of living spiritual beings: a living universe, whole and divine. He does so in concrete images, capable of being grasped by human consciousness as if from within.

    SPIRITUAL SCIENCE AS A FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL FORMS

    SPIRITUAL SCIENCE AS A FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL FORMS

    Since the end of the nineteenth century the spiritual evolution of humanity has led toward a more mobile living thinking in which the abstract and fixed relation of consciousness to language is dissolved. Language becomes more gesture-like in character as consciousness is filled with colour and image.

    THE WORK OF THE ANGEL IN OUR ASTRAL BODY

    THE WORK OF THE ANGEL IN OUR ASTRAL BODY

    'A great deal is happening all the time in world evolution; and it falls to human beings, particularly those of our own time, to acquire real understanding of the world events in which they are involved.'

    THE WORK OF THE ANGEL IN OUR ASTRAL BODY

    THE WORK OF THE ANGEL IN OUR ASTRAL BODY

    Audio Book

    read by Peter Bridgmont

    In this popular lecture Rudolf Steiner reveals that the angels - the spirits closest to human beings - are seeking to create images in human astral bodies. These images are given with the intention of bringing about 'definite conditions in the social life of the future' related to brotherhood, religious freedom, and conscious spirituality. Other spiritual beings, however, are working against the angels. If, as a result of their disruption, humanity sleeps though the angels' spiritual revelation, the consequences will be dire, and aberrations connected to sexuality, the misuse of medicine, and the misapplication of mechanical forces will begin to manifest.

  • SPIRITUAL BEINGSOTHER AUTHORS

    ANTHROPOSOPHY AND THE ACCUSATION OF RACISM

    ANTHROPOSOPHY AND THE ACCUSATION OF RACISM

    Society and Medicine in a Totalitarian Age

    Peter Selg

    “No longer should the blood that runs through the ancestors be of sole account. From this point onward, what every single person achieves in one’s soul shall count. Every single human being shall be of value during their incarnation...” — Rudolf Steiner

    FAIRY WORLDS AND WORKERS

    FAIRY WORLDS AND WORKERS

    A Natural History of Fairyland

    Marjorie Spock

    The Middle Kingdom! Various times and peoples have given it different names. To some it was Paradise, to others Tir-nan-Og; Arthurian Avalon; Fairyland; the World of Immortal Youth; the Land of Heart’s Desire. Where exactly is that country? Well, if God’s is the world of creative power and ours the world of created objects, the fairy world is the land of life that lies between them, serv­ing as the bridge for their interaction.

    HOW TO CREATE THE STAR OF YOUR FAMILY CULTURE

    HOW TO CREATE THE STAR OF YOUR FAMILY CULTURE

    The Heaven on Earth Workbook

    Sharifa Oppenheimer

    In this gem of a book, parents are offered an exploratory approach to the principles introduced in Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children. Using excerpts as leading thoughts, as well as “The Star of Family Culture” as a guiding image, parents are given a warmhearted lens through which to view their family life.

    THE MOST HOLY TRINOSOPHIA

    THE MOST HOLY TRINOSOPHIA

    And The New Revelation of the Divine Feminine

    Robert Powell

    The rising interest in goddess spirituality expresses our current need to understand the feminine side of God, the Sophia (or Divine Wisdom), and her relationship to the masculine aspects of God. Offering a new perspective, the author draws on his own research and on the teaching of Russian philosopher Pavel Florensky, according to whom Sophia has a relationship to the masculine Trinity as an independent spiritual being. Robert Powell discusses Sophia as a Trinity - as Mother, Daughter, and Holy Soul - and as the feminine aspect of Divine Godhead. He connects our reawakening to the feminine aspect of God with many of the changes now taking place in the world.

    SHE WAS ALWAYS THERE

    SHE WAS ALWAYS THERE

    Sophia as a Story for Our Time

    Signe Eklund Schaefer

    We should face that world not with our opinions but with our questions, indeed in a questioning mood and attitude. — Rudolf Steiner, The Fifth Gospel