Steinerbooks Collected Works imprint: 215 books

Rudolf Steiner's course on light, which includes explorations of color, sound, mass, electricity and magnetism, presages the dawn of a new world view in the natural sciences that will stand our notion of the physical world on its head. This "first course" in natural science, given to the teachers of...

Today we hear a great deal about holistic medicinean approach to healing that integrates body, mind, and spirit. For Rudolf Steiner, healing is not possible unless it takes into account all the dimensions that make up a human being-both visible and invisible. Unless we begin to understand these dimensions...

Just as we have natural desires for food, shelter, and human contact so we have a spiritual desire for knowldege. All too often the obstacles to satisfying this desire are so great that in the end we silence our questions and give up hope of knowing. In this book we meet the thirst for knowldge of a...

This completely revised edition provides an ordered sequence of statements by Steiner on the development of higher, suprasensory knowingImagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. Nine chapters take the reader from the idea of inner development, through the cultural and evolutionary need for higher knowing,...

The art of eurythmy tries to make what is invisible visible through harmonious, disciplined plays of color, form, sound, and motion. When this art was still young and little known, Rudolf Steiner's introductory talks prepared nearly 300 audiences for their encounter with this whole new way of presenting...

Ever since nature and consciousness were separated during the late Middle Agesgiving rise to scientific thinking that considers only the physical world and views the mind as merely an epiphenomenon of neural chemistrythe spiritual beings who are the universe have felt abandoned and unable to complete...

During Pentecost 1908seven years after he had given the world his book Christianity As Mystical Fact and the first intimation of the consequences of his Christ experienceRudolf Steiner began his great work of renewing humanity's understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha and its meaning for human and earthly...

Following an excellent description of spiritual science as a training of consciousness (practical exercises are given), Steiner shows how, rather than establishing a "new" religion, spiritual science confirms Christianity as the universal, cosmic path of human evolution.

Modern science tells us that we are an insignificant accident in a vast, indifferent universe. Rudolf Steiner maintains that we are intimately enmeshed with the whole cosmos, right down to the very structure of our physical bodies. In these talks, Steiner explores our relationship as individuals to the...

Beginning at the turn of the century, Rudolf Steiner began to express a passionate interest in Christianity. For him, the event he called the Mystery of Golgotha is more than the central event of Christianity; it is, in fact, the turning point in time for all human and earthly evolution. In his Autobiography,...

Steiner tells us that Mark was especially able to reveal Christ as a cosmic being of his greatness and power, because, after having been a pupil of Peter, he moved to Alexandria during a time when Jewish philosophy and theology was at it's peak. There he absorbed the best aspects and views of pagan gnosis....

In 1923 Rudolf Steiner predicted the dire state of today's honeybee. He stated that, within fifty to eighty years, we would see the consequences of mechanizing the forces that had previously operated organically in the beehive. Such practices include breeding queen bees artificially. The fact that over...

In 1922 the hundreds of workers from 17 nations engaged in the construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for Steiner to give them a daily lecture after their morning coffee break. Rudolf Steiner not only had the workers set the lecture themes but also welcomed their questions...

The main body of The Bhagavad Gita and the West consists of two lecture courses by Rudolf Steiner: The Bhagavad Gita and the Epistles of Paul and The Esoteric Significance of the Bhagavad Gita. In the first course, his main purpose, as McDermott shows, is to integrate the flower of Hindu spirituality...