"To be reminded in a utilitarian, materialistic age that the ideals of the Greek mind can quicken culture, even today, is refreshing to heart and soul." –R. M. Querido The Christian civilization of the Western would is built on two colums: the heritages of the Old Testament and that of Hellas. This has been know since the days Clement of Alexandria, the found of the first Christian philosophy in the second century A.D., who was by descent a Greek and by faith a Christian. Clement appraised the dialectic of Plato and the metaphysics of Aristotle to be equally significant with the Genesis of Moses and the books of the prophets. In placing the message of the Greeks on the same level as the revelation of the Old Testament, he laid the cornerstone for building a true hhistory of the mission of Hellas. In fact, it is an integral part of the task of this book to show that besides the events in the lives of the Hebrews there was nothing that more immediately prepared humanity for the coming of Christ than what lived in the spirit of Hellas. Hence, the story of the heathen heritage becomes the Gospel of Hellas.

The Gospel of Hellas: The Mission of Ancient Greece and The Advent of Christ

Friedrich Hiebel

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While conventional medicine analyzes disease in terms of cellular disturbances and prescribes drugs to counteract physical symptoms, anthroposophical medicine adds a spiritual image of the human being. Anthroposophical doctors (who qualify first in conventional medicine) increase the range of treatments available, offering artistic therapies, herbal remedies, and many others. Where conventional treatment can only suppress the symptoms, these treatments extend the possibilities of a cure and reduce the need to use conventional drugs. This book is an excellent introduction to the scope and potential of anthroposophical medicine.

Anthroposophical Medicine: Healing for Body, Soul and Spirit

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pratt, Brian

Alternative Medicine

Theologian, academic, and certified Biodynamic farmer Frederick L. Kirschenmann is a celebrated agricultural thinker. In the last thirty years he has tirelessly promoted the principles of sustainability and has become a legend in his own right. Kirschenmann was a keynote speaker at the 2010 Biodynamic National Conference. Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher documents Kirschenmann's evolution and his lifelong contributions to the new agrarianism in a collection of his greatest writings on farming, philosophy, and sustainability. Working closely with agricultural economist and editor Constance L. Falk, Kirschenmann recounts his intellectual and spiritual journey. In a unique blend of personal history, philosophical discourse, spiritual ruminations, and practical advice, Kirschenmann interweaves his insights with discussion of contemporary agrarian topics. This collection serves as an invaluable resource to agrarian scholars and introduces readers to an agricultural pioneer whose work has profoundly influenced modern thinking about food.

Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher (Culture Of The Land)

Business & Money

Kirschenmann, Frederick L.

Economics

Zanoni, first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. Sir Edward, a Rosicrucian, wrote this engaging, well-researched, novel about the eternal conflict between head and heart, between wisdom and love, played out by the Rosicrucians before the dramatic background of the French Revolution. He described his book Zanoni as “a truth for those who can comprehend it, and an extravagance for those who cannot.” Following his introduction, the novel is divided into seven parts, whose titles indicate the sevenfold path of spiritual development. The fourth section, “The Dweller of the Threshold,” is the book’s centerpiece, revealing significant esoteric facts and experiences. A novelist, a dramatist, a scholar, an editor, and an active member of Parliament, Sir Edward was an extremely successful author whose writings were widely read throughout England and Europe. He poured into this esoteric work all of the ancient esoteric wisdom that he felt he could reveal to the public during an age buried deeply in materialism. This work remains one of the great, pioneering landmarks of esoteric writing.

Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale

Religion & Spirituality

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Literature & Fiction

This is a landmark book. Not only in the field of philosophy but in man's own evolutionary physical, psychic and spiritual development. By using the same exacting, precise methods of observation, thing experience and reason, the tools so grandly developed by Western Man over the past 2500 years in respect to nature and culminating n the scientific method, Steiner creates the basis for a philosophy and science of Man himself, as well as a science of the spirit.  He clearly points out how each of us can make the gigantic leap of transforming these very methods and tools into the means for man to free himself of the limits he has so far placed on himself. This book is not limited to a reexamination of the fundamental questions concerning Thinking, Free Will, Love and Morality, nor the logical beauty and organic unfolding of the psychic process of man's remembering and experiencing activities, nor the responsibilities and consequences of the application of the spiritual activity of freedom, but moves beyond these various human experiences. Steiner points to man's own means of becoming aware of the very force in man that makes these soul and spiritual experiences consciously understood and manifest in practice.  That power is the reality of a self-conscious Self that is the essence of the human being, and further, it is a Self that can become conscious of itself out of its own spiritual activity. Man is a free being, capable of performing free deeds because he is a spiritual being at the core. That is why this is a truly unique book: it places the free, self-conscious, human spirit at the very center of all human activities.

The philosophy of spiritual activity: Fundamentals of a modern view of the world : results of introspective observations according to the method of natural science

STEINER, RUDOLF

Discusses the period of time between the creation of the Earth and the beginning of recorded history, focusing on the peoples of Lemuria and Atlantis

Cosmic Memory: Atlantis and Lemuria

Rudolph Steiner

Occult & Paranormal

Jacob Boehme: Life and Doctrines

HARTMANN, FRANZ

Does the secret order known as the Rosicrucians even exist? Though fabled for centuries as clandestine movers and shakers of European and world events-alongside the Knights Templar and the Freemasons-evidence for its authenticity is shaky. But that doesn't mean that later organizations haven't claimed the name, or that libraries of words haven't been written about them. Waite, a preeminent 19th-century expert in esoterica, here surveys all the literature necessary for understanding the roots of the Rosicrucians, whether they are real or fantasy.   This volume, first published in 1887, includes translations of the 17th-century German documents at the foundation of the story of the Rosicrucians as well as a comprehensive survey of literature about the Rosicrucians. Students of secret societies and European history and literature will be enthralled.   American-born British occultist and author ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE (1857-1942) was co creator of the famous 1910 Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Among his numerous books are Book of Ceremonial Magic, The Holy Kabbalah, and New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.

Real history of the Rosicrucians

History

Waite, ARTHUR EDWARD

Ancient Civilizations

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BALZAC, Honoré

Literary

In 1794 Goethe and Schiller were engaged in a correspondence concerning the connection of the human soul with the world of the senses on one hand and with the supersensory on the other. While Schiller approached the question in a philosophical way, Goethe embodied his thoughts in a fantasy entitled The Fairytale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. In his fantasy, Lily represents the ideal world of the supersensory that is separated from the Green Snake, or the sensory, by a river. The goal is to build a bridge across the river that will connect the sensory and super sensory realms, and thereby establish a new, conscious spiritual awareness. The other characters in the fairytale–the Ferryman, the Old Woman, the Youth, the Will-o'-Wisps and the Old Man with the Lamp represent various aspects of the soul working together to accomplish this mighty task. A commentary on The Character of Goethe as shown in the Fairy Story is provided by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and thinker. An invaluable guide, it illuminates much of the deep symbology that is contained in this simple, universal fairytale.

Goethe's Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON

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