These essays, both scholarly and sympathetic to the Pythagorean tradition, are intended as a homage to Pythagoras and proof of keen contemporary interest in his philosophy as a living reality. Pythagoreanism has affected every aspect of our science, religion and art. It is present in all esoteric cosmologies, but is particularly central to the western tradition and is expressed in various ways, as number, harmony, light, form, sound and colour. This book describes a deeper way of perceiving and understanding nature and the cosmos, with contributions from leading writers and thinkers on the sacred tradition. The contents include Robert Lawlor on "Ancient Temple Architecture," Keith Critchlow on "The Platonic Tradition on the Nature of Proportion," and "Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture," Arthur Zajonc on "The Two Lights," and Kathleen Raine on "Blake, Yeats and Pythagoras".

Rediscovering Sacred Science

BAMFORD, CHRISTOPHER

Floris Books

The Universal Human: The Evolution of Individuality : Four Lectures Given Between 1909 and 1916 in Munich and Bern

STEINER, RUDOLF

Seiler, Sabine H.

Religion & Spirituality

Rudolf Steiner Pr

In this simple, readable volume, Rudolf Steiner, one of the great spiritual masters of the modern era, sets out some step-by-step practices for awakening higher consciousness. He provides an effective and accessible approach for developing the higher powers that lie hidden in all of us. 
This book offers much more, however. It also shows how to integrate the spiritual path with our daily lives, so that we become more effective and caring human beings. Steiner shows how we can progress on the spiritual path only when we awaken our love and compassion for the world around us. 
First published nearly a century ago, this valuable guidebook has given inspiration and insight to hundreds of thousands of readers the world over. It has been translated into many languages and admired by some of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century.

How to Know Higher Worlds: The Classic Guide to the Spiritual Journey

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

“Our very ‘I’ consciousness is possible because the mineral earth―the first layer of the interior of the Earth―and the other chthonic regions exist. Our human nature is a reflection of the subearthly and supraearthly realms that comprise the macrocosm and the microcosm. ‘The true meaning of the microcosm–macrocosm analogy is not that the human being is a little cosmos, but that the cosmos is a big human being.’ From this perspective, it makes complete sense that the subterranean realms described by spiritual science live within the deepest realms of our human nature and subconscious life of darker feelings and will. Deep within the human being, they radiate into the shadows of thought. This region is more familiarly known as Hell, Hades, or the Abyss. The subterranean spheres, then, are the Earth’s ‘dark side’” (from the introduction). Throughout human history, ancient wisdom and traditional myths have placed human beings between the heavens and the underworld, describing the heavens as the light-filled realm of the gods and the source of goodness, and characterizing the underworld as a demon-filled realm of darkness and the source of evil. Modern science, however, denies the heavens and knows little of the Earth’s interior ― even physically ― beyond the first few miles, after which it simply resorts to conjecture based on the extrapolation of existing sensory data. In other words, natural science fails to take into account that the Earth is a living, spiritual being and ignores the presence of its soul-spiritual qualities and influences. To remedy this, during the early twentieth century, Rudolf Steiner researched the psychic, spiritual, and cosmic nature of the Earth’s interior. He described how the different layers of the inner Earth affect and interact with human beings living on Earth. More theologically and cosmically, he spoke of the layers of “Hell,” through which Jesus Christ traveled in the period between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, uniting and integrating himself with the Earth and with human destiny. The seven authors in The Inner Life of the Earth approach this difficult and little-discussed topic from different directions. They discuss how the forces emanating from the interior of the Earth affect the weather, our atmosphere, human beings, and how human behavior in turn affects them, showing that earthly and human evolution are a unity and should never be thought of as occurring separately. They also discuss the deep significance of Christ’s incarnation, by which he united with the Earth to become the Spirit of the Earth. Without Christ’s deed, the Mystery of Golgotha, which reunites cosmic and human evolution with the divine, human beings would be unable to work in freedom with Christ or with Sophia, divine feminine Wisdom, in her form as the Soul of the Earth, to overcome evil and help lift all creation toward goodness and greater human, cosmic, and divine fellowship. Contents: <ul>
<li>“Introduction by Paul V. O’Leary</li> <li>“Evil: Our Dance Partner through Life” by David S. Mitchell</li> <li>“As Above, so Below ― As Below, so Above” by Dennis Klocek</li> <li>“Subnature and the Second Coming” by Robert Powell</li> <li>“Portals to the Inner Earth” by Marko Pogacnik</li> <li>“Transforming Subearthly Energies through Eurythmy” by Rachel C. Ross</li> <li>“The Mineral Earth as the Gateway to Freedom and the Subterranean Spheres: The Ministry of Jesus Christ” by Paul V. O’Leary</li> <li>“Paradoxical Thoughts on Christ and Sophia in the Human Mystery of the Earth” by Christopher Bamford</li> </ul>

The Inner Life of the Earth: Exploring the Mysteries of Nature, Subnature, and Supranature

Klocek, Dennis

Pogačnik, Marko

Ross, Rachel C.

O'Leary, Paul V.

Mitchell, David S.

Powell PhD, Robert A.

New Age & Spirituality

SteinerBooks

The Transcendental Universe: Six Lectures on Occult Science, Theosophy, and the Catholic Faith : Delivered Before the Berean Society (Esoteric, 1)

Harrison, C. G.

Temple Lodge Pub

The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. V. de L. Milosz

"Transmitted by oral tradition to initiates of the Middle Ages and of modern times, Noble Traveller is the secret name of initiates of antiquity. The last time that it was pronounced in public was on May 30, 1786, in Paris at a session of Parliament devoted to the cross-examination of a famous defendant, victim of a pamphleteer, Theveneau de Morande. Initiates’ wanderings did not differ from ordinary travels for study except that their itinerary, though apparently haphazard, rigorously coincided with the adept’s most secret aspirations and gifts." —O.V. de L. Milosz, "The Arcana," Exegetic Note, verse 46 Born in 1877, Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz was a mystical poet, metaphysician, dramatist, Biblical exegete, and novelist. His roots were Lithuanian and Jewish, whereas he was educated in France and wrote in French. The Noble Traveller contains Milosz’s two main works of mystical philosophy, "Ars Magna" and "The Arcana." Also included: a generous selection of his poetry; an extensive chronology of his life; and photographs. This volume constitutes a complete introduction to this important literary, philosophical, and spiritual writer.

Biographies & Memoirs

De L. Milosz, O. V.

Miłosz, Czesław

Travelers & Explorers

Lindisfarne Books

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Form · Number · Geometry · Architecture · Light · Color · Music · Poetry\n“All such disciplines, theories, and scientific investigations as truly invigorate the eye of the soul, and purify the intellect from blindness introduced by studies of a different kind, so as to enable it to perceive the true principles and causes of the universe, were unfolded by Pythagoras to the Greeks.” ― 
Iamblichus, 
Life of Pythagoras\nHomage to Pythagoras collects essential writings by authors at the leading edge of the sacred sciences today. Each chapter―scholarly homages to the Pythagorean perspective―confirms the continuing interest in Pythagoras’ philosophy as a living reality. These authors provide a major addition to the field of Pythagorean studies and traditional mathematics. 
 Review 
“Some of the finest recent articles on Sacred Mathematics in the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions, which are still as vital and important as ever.” ( 
Ralph Abraham, author of Chaos, Gaia, Eros)\n“If they ever put together a new Library of Alexandria, Homage to Pythagoras should be required reading.” ( 
John Anthony West, author of The Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt)\n“With its testimony to number and pattern at the heart of nature and of the arts, the Pythagorean tradition will always be a guiding light to Western culture.” ( 
Joscelyn Godwin, author of The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions) 
 Review 
“If they ever put together a new Library of Alexandria, Homage to Pythagoras should be required reading.” -- John Anthony West, author of The Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt\n“With its testimony to number and pattern at the heart of nature and of the arts, the Pythagorean tradition will always be a guiding light to Western culture.”\n-- Joscelyn Godwin, author of The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions 
 About the Author 
Anne Macaulay (1921–1998) lived in Scotland where, for many years, she studied the origins of the alphabet, the history of the guitar, the figure of Apollo, and other mysteries surrounding Pythagoreanism. She settled in Balerno near Edinburgh and traveled widely, surveying megalithic sites around the world. In 1994, she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh. Mrs. Macaulay lectured at RILKO (Research into Lost Knowledge Orga­nization) and was a trustee of the Salisbury Center in Edinburgh.\nChristopher Bamford is Editor in Chief Emeritus for SteinerBooks (Anthroposophic Press) and its imprints. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured, taught, and written widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions. He is the author of 
The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity (1990) and 
An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West (2003). He has also translated and edited numerous books, including 
Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness (1982); 
Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science; and 
The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. V. de L. Milosz (all published by Lindisfarne Books). HarperSanFrancisco included an essay by Mr. Bamford in its anthology 
Best Spiritual Writing 2000.\nKathleen Raine (1908–2003) graduated from Cambridge University in 1929. She became one of English literature's most remarkable twentyth-century practitioners. Although she considered herself primarily a poet, she was also a prolific writer of prose, an astute critic, and a distinguished scholar. Her poems and essays assert that true poetry is an expression of the spirit, the unfolding of a reality often hidden by the material appearance of things. Raine wrote a three-part autobiography (1973-1977), founded the magazine 
Temenos in 1981 to articulate her views, and in 1990 established the Temenos Academy of Integral Studies, a teaching academy that stressed a multistranded universalist philosophy. A professor at Ca

Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science

History

RAINE, Kathleen

Critchlow, Keith

Zajonc, Arthur

Macaulay, Anne

Robert, Lawlor

Ancient Civilizations

This book presents and explores a little-known example of Rudolf Steiner’s efforts to bring, in a practical way, a contemporary embodiment of the wisdom that once lived in the ancient mysteries. In this instance, a sequence of fifteen images of the Madonna, intended originally for contemplation under supervision in a clinical setting as a new form of therapy for those suffering soul wounds.In a 1908 lecture, Steiner addressed the subterranean spiritual links connecting ancient Egypt and our own time and described certain healing functions of the Isis Mysteries. He connected the Madonna Mary, in a sense, as the evolutionary metamorphosis of Isis, focusing on Raphael’s visionary image of her in the Sistine Madonna.The sequence consists of fifteen images (predominantly by Raphael) and a sculpture. The first half begins and ends with the Sistine Madonna, which frames it. The second half is similarly framed, but by two details from The Transfiguration. One first establishes a meditative soul mood and then slowly contemplates the sequence of images.Among the numerous topics discussed are divine feminine Wisdom, the Holy Mother, the origin of the Madonna sequence, the etheric body and the sequence, and Rudolf Steiner’s healing mission.

Healing Madonnas: Exploring the Sequence of Madonna Images Created by Rudolf Steiner and Felix Peipers for Use in Therapy and Meditation

Arts & Photography

About the Author\nChristopher Bamford (1943–2022) was born in Cardiff, South Wales, and lived for a while in Hungary and then in Scotland. He studied as an undergraduate at Trinity University in Dublin and earned his master’s degree at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. For nearly thirty years, he was Editor in Chief at SteinerBooks (Anthroposophic Press) and its imprints. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he lectured, taught, and wrote widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions. His books include a selection of his numerous introductions, Encountering Rudolf Steiner: Introductions to Essential Works (2022); Healing Madonnas: Exploring the Sequence of Madonna Images Created by Rudolf Steiner and Felix Peipers for Use in Therapy and Meditation (2017); An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West (2003); and The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity (1990). He also translated and edited numerous books, including Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science (2001); The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. V. de L. Milosz (1984); and Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness (1982). Essays by Mr. Bamford are included in The Best Spiritual Writing 2000 (“In the Presence of Death”) and The Best American Spiritual Writing 2005 (“The Gift of the Call”). Christopher passed over the threshold on May 13, 2022, at his Mt. Washington, Massachusetts home.\nRobert McDermott, Ph.D., is president emeritus and chair of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). His publications include Radhakrishnan (1970); The Essential Aurobindo (1974, 1987); The Essential Steiner (1984); (with Rudolf Steiner) The Bhagavad Gita and the West (2009); and The New Essential Steiner (2009). He has also published on William James, Josiah Royce, M. K. Gandhi, the evolution of consciousness, and American thought. His administrative service includes president of the New York Center for Anthroposophy; president of the Rudolf Steiner [summer] Institute; chair of the board of Sunbridge College (New York) and of Rudolf Steiner College (California). He was a member of the council of the Anthroposophical Society in America (1996–2004). He is the founding chair of the board of the Sophia Project, an anthroposophic home in Oakland, California, for mothers and children at risk of homelessness. He is a Lindisfarne fellow, a Fetzer mentor, and a member of the Esalen Corportion.\nWilliam Michael (Jens) Jensen began working with Anthroposophic Press in 1995, beginning as a copyeditor, a job that soon included putting together and maintaining the first website for the press. In September 2001, he moved to Montreal, where he worked long-distance for the press until 2015, when he moved to western Massachusetts.\n“The deep aim, or intention, of an introduction (understood esoterically) is a ‘living understanding,’ or, as the poet William Blake put it, the ability ‘to catch the bird in flight and fly with it.’ If successful, this makes it possible for any reader to hear or translate, into his or her own understanding, what Rudolf Steiner is offering, within and beyond his words, in these texts of The Collected Works.” ―Christopher Bamford 
Rudolf Steiner’s writings and lectures comprise a collection of more than 350 volumes, which can overwhelm anyone hoping to gain an understanding of the vast range of their content. Beginning in the 1990s, as editor in chief of Anthroposophic Press (SteinerBooks), Christopher Bamford wrote introductions to more than fifty books in the English translations, each one offering readers significant context and keys to open up many areas of Steiner’s works. 
This volume presents fifteen of those introductions to some of Steiner’s most essential books and lectures on anthroposophic practices, Western esoteric streams, religious renewal, and inner development, as well as practica

Encountering Rudolf Steiner: Introductions to Essential Works

Occult & Paranormal

PITÁGORAS Y LA CIENCIA SAGRADA

Science & Math

Mathematics

Ediciones Atalanta, S.L.

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