EAST IN THE LIGHT OF THE WEST, PARTS 1 - 3, THE
Part 1: The Teachings of Agni Yoga in the Light of Christian Esotericism
Part 2: The Teachings of Alice Bailey in the Light of Christian Esotericism
Part 3: The Birth of Christian Esotericism in the Twentieth Century and the Occult Powers that Oppose it

• Sergei O. Prokofieff

This major work comprises a comprehensive study of Eastern and Western esoteric streams and the occult powers that stand behind them. In Part 1 Prokofieff discusses the spiritual movement of Agni Yoga, presented to the world by Helena Roerich and her husband, the painter Nicholas Roerich. Part 2 focuses on the teachings developed by Alice Bailey, whilst Part 3 considers the relationship between Eastern and Western spiritual masters and the occult streams they represent.

EDITH MARYON
Rudolf Steiner and the Sculpture of Christ in Dornach

• Peter Selg

‘The most essential and intrinsic quality of her soul … was not a particular branch of human endeavour, not even art; the most salient of her soul tendencies, her soul intentions, was the striving for spirituality…’ – Rudolf Steiner

EDUCATING THE SOUL
On the Esoteric in Shakespeare

• Josie Alwyn • Brien Masters

‘The power of Shakespeare lies in his evidently conscious knowledge, skill and understanding of how to work with the alchemical potential in the human soul in the crafting of his plays. Each play is made as an exquisitely unique transformative device for the education of the soul.’

EIGHTFOLD PATH, THE
A Way of Development for those Working in Education, Therapy and the Caring Professions

• Joop van Dam

Centuries before the birth of Christ, Buddha taught a path of love, compassion and forgiveness originating from his experiences of suffering in the world. The cause of suffering, he believed, lay within the soul, which had become self-centred and egotistic. Buddha inaugurated the Eightfold Path for purification and transformation – eight exercises which could lead to a new relationship with the world, from self-centredness to a warm interest in one’s environment and in other people. The exercises, described and explained here in their correct sequence – with each preparing the individual for the next step – are: the right view, the right resolve, the right word, the right action, the right standpoint, the right effort, the right remembrance and the right contemplation.

ENCOUNTER WITH EVIL AND ITS OVERCOMING THROUGH SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
With Essays on The Foundation Stone

• Sergei 0. Prokofieff

In our everyday lives, we are constantly challenged by the phenomenon of evil in all its many manifestations. But how can we cope with this seemingly eternal hindrance?

ENCOUNTERS WITH VIDAR
Communications from the Outer Etheric Realm
From Clairvoyance to Clairaudience

• Are Thoresen

At the threshold that divides the elemental and etheric worlds, Are Thoresen encounters two spiritual entities – Vidar and Balder, ‘guardians of the threshold’ – whose task is to protect the spiritual border from uninitiated intruders. Building on previous reports, Encounters with Vidar offers startling new esoteric teachings, gleaned – through processes of spiritual knowledge – from these enigmatic gods. Here, Vidar and Balder emphasize the importance of clairaudience as opposed to clairvoyance (the latter particularly being open to attack from adversary beings). Through the process of working with the communications, the author begins to experience a transformation of his head chakras, leading to an awakening of ‘spiritual ears’. Whilst clairvoyance is like reading the holy script, clairaudience is akin to hearing the holy script, he learns.

ESOTERIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SPIRITUAL WORK IN ANTHROPOSOPHICAL GROUPS
And the future of the Anthroposophical Society

• Sergei 0. Prokofieff

"The anthroposophical community seeks to lift human souls into supersensible realms so that they may enter the company of Angels." - Rudolf Steiner

ESOTERIC STUDIES
The Michael Impulse

• Ita Wegman

"May all those who have the strength and courage, not only to bring the Michael-thought to manifestation in their souls but to make it living in their deeds, become true servants of Michael and bring about his victory, and thus lead mankind over the great crisis with which it is now confronted." - Ita Wegman

ESSENCE OF TONALITY, THE / PARSIFAL CHRIST-EXPERIENCE, THE
An Attempt to View Musical Subjects in the Light of Spiritual Science

• Hermann Beckh

The unique scholarship and artistic sensitivity of Prof. Dr Hermann Beckh (1875–1937) is in the process of being rediscovered. The great linguist, Orientalist and Christian priest – an active music-lover who also composed – penned pioneer works on our musical system that are respected by musicians and musicologists. This volume brings together two revised versions of his best-loved books.

ETERNAL INDIVIDUALITY
Towards a Karmic Biography of Novalis

• Sergei 0. Prokofieff

Prokofieff develops and expands Rudolf Steiner's indications on Novalis' incarnations, leading the reader to an understanding of his crucial future mission amongst humanity.

ETHERIC, THE
Broadening Science through Anthroposophy
Volume 1: The World of the Ethers

• Ernst Marti

Ernst Marti devoted his life to researching the ‘etheric realm’ – a subtle area that exists between the physical and spiritual. Taking the numerous statements and references by Rudolf Steiner as his starting point, Marti develops our understanding of the etheric world in various fields – from the theory of knowledge to the natural world, through to music, the realm of colours, eurythmy and medicine. In doing so, he proposes exciting bridges from the ancient and medieval worldview to the present and future of natural and spiritual science.

ETHERIC, THE
Broadening Science through Anthroposophy
Volume 2: The World of Formative Forces

• Ernst Marti

Ernst Marti devoted his life to researching the ‘etheric realm’ – a subtle area that exists between the physical and spiritual. Taking the numerous statements and references by Rudolf Steiner as his starting point, Marti develops our understanding of the etheric world in various fields – from the theory of knowledge to the natural world, through to music, the realm of colour, eurythmy and medicine. In doing so, he proposes exciting bridges from the ancient and medieval worldview to the present and future of natural and spiritual science.

EUROPA
A Spiritual Biography

• Richard Seddon

Seddon considers Europe from the point-of-view of the rulerships of the various Archangels of Time from Michael's regency between the mid-sixth and the third century BC, up to his present rulership between 1879 and the twenty-second century.

EVENT, THE
in Science, History, Philosophy & Art

• Yeshayahu (Jesaiah) Ben-Aharon

‘Could it not be that a tremendously important Event is taking place in the world, taking place right now, of which our own contemporaries have no presentiment? This is indeed so. A highly important Event is taking place that is perceptible, however, only to spiritual vision.’ – Rudolf Steiner, 25 January, 1910

EXPERIENCES FROM THE THRESHOLD AND BEYOND
Understood Through Anthroposophy

• Are Thoresen

‘‘There is a physical world, which we all accept as real, but there is also a spiritual world, which interpenetrates this material world and is its cause and foundation. Between these two worlds exists a threshold that can be felt, seen clairvoyantly, traversed and passed through by anyone with a real desire to do so... At this threshold there is a guardian, whose task is to stop humans from passing across it unprepared...’ – From the Introduction

FIGURE OF CHRIST
Rudolf Steiner and the spiritual intention behind the Goetheanum's central work of art

• Peter Selg • translated by Matthew Barton

'Yes, that is the Christ. This is how my spiritual eye perceived him in Palestine.' - Rudolf Steiner, speaking of his sculpted figure of Christ

FOUNDATION STONE

• Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven

During the Christmas Conference of 1923-24 when the Anthroposophical Society was refounded, Rudolf Steiner presented to its members for the first time the Foundation Stone Meditation. On consecutive days during that week he showed how elements of the Meditation could be rebuilt into new meditations - sometimes referred to as 'rhythms' - which could be inwardly practised. Zeylmans van Emmichoven was present at that formative meeting, and lived intensively with these 'rhythms' for more than 30 years. He started speaking about them publicly at a time when they were virtually forgotten. Initially in the Netherlands, and later during his extensive journeys around the world, Zeylmans began to make people aware of the germinating forces contained within the Meditation. This volume bears the fruit of his work on this theme. It remains a seminal book which has been an inspiration to generations of students of anthroposophy.

FOUNDATION STONE MEDITATION
A Key to the Christian Mysteries

• Sergei 0. Prokofieff

Meditative reflection - the strengthening of thinking and feeling through the will - is one of the main methods of experiencing Anthroposophy. "The best path to this goal", says Sergei Prokofieff, "is inner work with the Foundation Stone Meditation, because this meditation is the quintessence of the whole of Anthroposophy, given in meditatively inspired form by means of earthly words."

FREEDOM AS SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY

• Edward Warren

The conception of freedom today is increasingly connected to the realms of economics, politics, religion, and so on. But what really is freedom in its essence, and does it have a spiritual aspect?

FREEDOM THROUGH LOVE
The Search for Meaning in Life
Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom

• Nick Thomas

What does it mean to be human? What is knowledge? What is freedom? Philosophy offers answers to these questions, but are its rarefied arguments relevant to people today, or just abstractions? Are we not more preoccupied with day-to-day survival and the unending problems surrounding human relationships?

FREEMASONRY AND RUDOLF STEINER
An Introduction to the Masonic Imagination

• N.V.P. Franklin

Today some six million Freemasons around the world continue to perform their rituals regularly – an enormous legacy of spiritual endeavour, kept largely in secret. In Britain alone there are over 7,000 Lodges, with a quarter of a million members. What is this wealth, this appeal, and how did the philosopher and spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner reinterpret or reconstruct Freemasonry’s time-worn legacy?

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER AND THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM
With Aspects of his Occult Biography

• Sergei 0. Prokofieff

‘The primary task of this book is to build a bridge to a deeper understanding of Schiller himself who, along with Goethe and Novalis, was one of the great spiritual forerunners and trailblazers of anthroposophy.’ – Sergei O. Prokofieff

FROM BUDDHA TO CHRIST

• Hermann Beckh

‘Christianizing the Buddha’s impulse at the same time broadens the Christian horizon…’ – Hermann Beckh

FROM CHRISTIANITY TO CHRIST
Christianity as the Essence of Humanity in Rudolf Steiner's Science of the Spirit

• Pietro Archiati

Pietro Archiati reaches beyond the earthly traditions and cultural expressions of Christianity to its true spiritual essence. His survey takes us from the history of an "all-too-human" Christianity to the history of actual "Christian" Christianity and its future development through a new scientific approach to the spirit.

FROM THE MYSTERIES
Genesis Zarathustra

• Hermann Beckh

In the early part of the last century, Professor Hermann Beckh began a search to discover the truth about the Mystery wisdom of antiquity. As a recognized authority on Buddhist texts, he knew that complete knowledge of such Mysteries was not to be found within the limitations of waking consciousness, sense perception and logic. Beckh was already aware that Gautama Buddha had indicated the stages of higher knowledge. Furthermore, his studies of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical teachings revealed that such knowledge could be experienced directly, given disciplined meditation. Clairvoyant cognition included the conscious penetration of sleep consciousness, the dream state and an experience of pre-natal consciousness. Both the Mysteries and Rudolf Steiner’s major books, he concluded, were founded on the same perceptions.

FUTURE ART OF CINEMA, THE
Rudolf Steiner’s Vision

• Reto Andrea Savoldelli

From Joseph Vogelsang and his mysterious peep-box to Hollywood blockbusters and Netflix, R.A. Savoldelli’s survey of cinema and film is based on practical experience – he was once the enfant terrible of Swiss cinema – and years of contemplation and study. He examines the difference between film as the ‘hypnotic monster’ referred to by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the art of film that Rudolf Steiner aspired to. The author depicts the historical development of cinema from its origins, paying particular attention to science fiction – from Star Wars to The Matrix – and influential filmmakers such as Eric Rohmer, Andrei Tarkovsky and Pasolini.

FUTURE IS NOW
Anthroposophy at the New Millennium

• Edited with an Introduction by Sevak Gulbekian

The spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner referred to the period of time encompassing the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium as one of great spiritual struggle. Forces of destruction would wage war against forces of good, and the future of culture and civilization would depend on the outcome. In his many statements on the matter, he directed words of warning in particular to members of the Anthroposophical Society and movement. They would be called upon to develop spiritual qualities which would be crucial to the furtherance of human development.

FUTURE OF AHRIMAN, THE
and the Awakening of Souls
The Spirit-Presence of the Mystery Dramas

• Peter Selg

In 1919 Rudolf Steiner spoke about the future physical incarnation of the being of Ahriman. This would take place before ‘a part’ of the third millennium had passed, and was inevitable – but it was also necessary that people were aware of this event and recognized it, for earthly culture would be destroyed if the world were to fall completely to Ahriman.

FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE EARTH
As Foreseen by Rudolf Steiner

• Richard Seddon

Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian-born philosopher and spiritual scientist, systematically cultivated methods of spiritual vision and research, which enabled him to investigate the course of human evolution. Steiner described how the thoughts and deeds of the hierarchies of spiritual beings are discernible in the dimensions of soul and spirit. Under certain conditions, it is possible for an initiate who has developed special capacities, to grasp what these beings are actively preparing for the future. This was achieved especially by St John in his Book of Revelation, and likewise by Rudolf Steiner throughout his many years of spiritual research and teaching.

GARDENING AS A SACRED ART
Towards the Redemption of our Relationship with Nature

• Jeremy Naydler

This beautifully illustrated book presents a history of our relationship with nature, beginning with the civilisations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, when gardens served as ‘the dwelling place of the gods’. Tracing this history through subsequent epochs, the author shows how human awareness of the divine presence in nature was gradually eclipsed. As nature came to be viewed primarily as a physical resource to be controlled and exploited by us, this was reflected in the ordered, rational designs imposed on such gardens as Versailles. More recently, gardening has come to be seen less as an instrument of control than as an art in its own right, enhancing nature’s inherent beauty. Jeremy Naydler suggests that the future of gardening lies not simply in its being regarded as an art but as a sacred art, which once again honours and works with the spiritual dimension intrinsic to nature.

GENIUS OF BEES, THE
and the Elemental Beings
How the spiritual world works through bees for nature and humanity

• Ralf Roessner

‘The most important task of the bees, apart from the preparation of honey, wax and propolis, is the healing of the atmosphere! The honey bee, apis mellifera, alone, is able to perform this task. This is its first and foremost purpose.’ – Ralf Roessner

GOLD AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
Treating Chronic Physical and Mental Illness with Mineral Remedies

• Dr Peter Grunewald

Presenting far-reaching new therapeutic research, Peter Grunewald examines the underlying spiritual aspects of constitutional treatment using medicines taken from the mineral kingdom. This constitutional approach, used in the treatment of chronic physical, neurological, developmental, emotional, behavioural and mental conditions and illnesses, centres on a system of nine minerals. Grunewald traces these nine substances on their paths through the human organism, and demonstrates their indications, effects and interactions. He also develops a spiritual and alchemistic understanding of the working of these substances, based on anthroposophical medical research.

GOLDEN KEY, THE

• George MacDonald • Illustrated by Angela Lord

There was a boy who used to sit in the twilight and listen to his great-aunt’s stories. She told him that if he could reach the place where the end of the rainbow stands he would find there a golden key...

GOOD CARE
Ethics and Methodology – An Anthroposophical Approach to Child- and Youth Psychiatry and Care of Persons with Developmental Disabilities

• E. Baars • P. Blomaard • et al

What are the hallmarks of anthroposophical caregiving methodology that are necessary for the provision of ‘good care’?

GREAT RELIGIONS
Pathways to Our Innermost Being

• Pietro Archiati

Taking a radical departure from the usual comparative study of religion, Pietro Archiati shows that the various religions represent stages in each individual's path of development. In this sense the Great Religions create an absolute unity - not in what they say or teach, but in their contribution to each of us becoming ever more human. As Archiati says: 'The essence of a religion is in what it makes of a human being. And the actual unity of all religions is the creative product they have combined to make, namely the human being himself as the synthesis of all the religious paths which he has trodden in the course of his long evolution.'

GREATEST GIFT EVER GIVEN.THE
A Living Spiritual Mystery
Studies in Esoteric Christianity

• Michael S. Ridenour

As a child in a non-religious family, Michael Ridenour found a Bible one day and began reading. Initially excited by its lively stories, he paused at the New Testament, faced with a baffling inner question: Where in the world is Christ today? An unexpected answer came during his teenage years with a spontaneous experience of the Christ being, but this only led to more questions. Later, discovering the work of Rudolf Steiner, he found the authentic vision and language he needed to clarify and better comprehend his own experiences, but the questions kept coming.

GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM, THE
On the Relationship of The Philosophy of Freedom to the Fifth Gospel

• Sergei O. Prokofieff

'The mystery of the Guardian, and the Threshold he protects, belong among the central most significant themes on the path of modern initiation. For, without the encounter with the Guardian, the Threshold to the spiritual world can never be crossed in full consciousness. The consequence would then be that for all the experiences in the realm on the other side of the Threshold there can be no certainty as to the truth of their contents.' - from the Preface