Steinerbooks: 521 books

This timely sequel to the popular inspirational blueprint for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is set to guide this rapidly growing movement to the next stage of its development. The authors provide very practical examples and information that will be of service to growers and shareholders alike...

Lewis Spence after 40 years of painstaking study produced this book on the Egyptian Mysteries, which is also notable as the first work written in English which attempts to present the esoteric traditions of the land of the Nile in a form accessible to the modern reader. The ancient Egyptions located...

How much practical time do we usually devote to the general art of being human? This practical guide to the self-healing of consciousnessit is both a spiritual psychology and a contemporary manual of the inner lifebegins by laying out very clearly the unhealthy, unfree nature of today's consciousness....

Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, was the founder of a tradition of Russian spirituality that brought together philosophy, mysticism, and theology with a powerful social message. A Platonist and a gnostic visionary, as well as a close friend of...

In this prophetic, millennial work, written by Russia's greatest philosopher at the end of the last century, the great task facing humanity as progress races to end history is the resistance to evil. Solovyov addresses what seem to him the three main trends of our time: economic materialism, Tolstoyan...

Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in...

Andrei Bely was one of the most prolific poets, novelists, and theoreticians among the Russian Symbolists. Engaged throughout his life with the essence of language, his thoughts and findings emerge repeatedly in his essays and novels. None of his writings on the subject, however, are as remarkable and...

This classic book on the theory of metamorphosis, written by Goethe, the famous scientist, author, and independent thinker, is one of the early works that describe the dynamic spiritual forces of nature. Introduced with a chapter from Rudolf Steiners Goethe the Scientist. This English translation was taken from the British Journal of Botany (1863).

An introduction to Goethes natural scientific writings, this book provides an alternative approach to a science of living nature, one that goes beyond simple numbers and measurements. Goethes development of morphological thought is a disciplined methodology that provides such an alternative. Through...

In the ghettos of medieval Germany the first traces of the Golem Story are to be found. It was there that the 'pious' spiritual leader appeared, the Hasidic master of magic, of occult lore, a prime goal of his efforts at 'practical' kabbala being the 'creation' of a Golem, a servant who would serve his...

Sri Aurobindo stands out as one of the deepest and most profoundly relevant of contemporary Asian spiritual masters speaking to the West. His vision transcends the distinctive strengths and weaknesses of India and the West, and his discipline brings the yogas of the Gita to the task of world transformation....

In 1995, to honor the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West, the New York Open Center invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions to the Czech Republic to discuss the historical backgrounds of Rosicrucianism. Two years later a second meeting was held in...

There is a long forgotten spiritual tradition that two children, both named Jesus, were born in Bethlehem to two sets of parents named Joseph and Mary. This tradition is supported by the different accounts of the nativity and life of Jesus Christ in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Although the Church...

According to tradition, Lao Tzu wrote the eighty-one short chapters of his Tao Te Ching around the sixth to fourth centuries B.C.E. It became the foundational philosophical work of Taoism, significantly inspired early masters of Zen Buddhism, and, for more than a century, has been widely embraced in...