Twelve Aspects of Michael
Contrasted by their Counter-images

Christoph-Andreas Lindenberg

Illustrated by David Newbatt

Hardbound, Dust-jacketed

$29.95

Both the lecture by Christoph-Andreas Lindenberg and the illustrations by David Newbatt are inspiring and elucidating - the sort of material in word and color that you'll find yourself mulling over for years to come. In an unexpected way, they are also extremely practical, pointing silently, almost invisibly at how we, with our very frail human nature, can find ways to live in the world with more love, guided by more light.

Most people are familiar with an image of St Michael and the Dragon. In this book Christoph-Andreas Lindenberg with words, and David Newbatt with images, explore other attributes of St Michael, in such a way that they reveal a twelve-fold balance of key noble qualities that the human being can strive for.

Along with these virtures is also described, in contrast, the all too recognisable failings of human nature, which have to be recognised and understood before they can be overcome.

Angels
An Anthology

Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Anna Meuss

$18.95

Rudolf Steiner describes the nature of all the different angels who help guide the destiny of individuals and nations, our relationship to them, and the ways in which we understand and experience their reality. Our most exciting moment in the book came when we discovered an exercise Steiner gave for opening our inner eye to the presence of angels. We believe most of us already do this without being aware of it, and that the real "exercise" is one of becoming aware of what we already know.

Guardian Angels
Connecting with Our Spiritual Guides and Helpers

Selected Lectures by Rudolf Stiener

Softbound

$16.95

Traditional folklore has spoken of guardian angels who guide and protect us. Rudolf Steiner also experienced the presence of these guardians and guides and spoke of them as reality. One of his aims was to enable people to connect again with these spiritual beings not only for their own benefit, but also for hte benefit of the other kingdom of nature and the whole destiny of the Earth.

Today, many more of us are awakening to angelic guidance in our daily lives. I think that anyone seeking for a firmer relationship with these beneficent beings will find much that is helpful in these lectures. I have also found them filled with characterizations and descriptions that were both inspiring and expanding.

Encounters with Angels

Dan Lindholm

Hardbound

$15.95

This lovely little book, beautifully hardbound and just the right size to tuck into a purse or large pocket, contains one jewel after another. Dan Lindholm has collected more than two dozen personal accounts of the dreams, visions, and guiding hands of destiny that are the human being's Encounters with Angels.

The Four Seasons and the Archangels

Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Pauline Wehrle

$20.00

These five lectures are among our favorites. The beauty of Steiner's portrayal of the activities of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel at the four pillars of the year is breathtaking. These lectures picture the alchemy of the cosmos, human beings, plants, animals and minerals moving together through the all the forces of elemental nature to find the balance point of the Earth's true goal. Highly recommended as another key doorway to understanding the cosmic significance of the turning of the year.

The Archangel Michael - His Mission and Ours
Selected Lectures and Writings

Rudolf Steiner
Edited by Christopher Bamford

$24.95

The writings and lectures in this volume span Rudolf Steiner's active life, from 1905 lectures on the Michael Event to the Michael Letters of 1924. This collection has so much breadth and depth that it is hard to find words to adequately express its value. A note here: The Archangel Michael contains the six core lectures from GA 194 Die Sendung Michael (The Michael Impulse). The final six lectures that complete that volume are available at www.bobnancy.com for free. This book plus those lectures offer you the most complete resource available for understanding the archangelic mission of our time.

Michaelmas
From the Work of Rudolf Steiner
Volume 7 in the Original Little Series

Compiled by
Helmut von Kügelgen

$13.95

To our eye, Helmut von Kügelgen has succeeded in putting between two modest covers the deepest, most useful and most beautiful thoughts, essays, imaginations, verses and observations of Rudolf Steiner on the subject of Michaelmas and the Archangel Michael. This is a heart-opening, invigorating anthology.

Sample Contents:

• How to Use This Booklet
• Anthroposophy and the Human Gemüt
• Michael's Battle with the Dragon
• Twelve Verses from the Calendar of the Soul
• Michaelmas Verse
• The Michael Festival in the Course of the Year
• Enthusiasm and the Consciousness o fthe Waldorf Teacher
• Healthy and Ill instead of True and False
• The Fine Weaving of the Spiritual in the Material
• The Battle of Michael Described for the Waldorf Teacher
• Truth-Wrought Pictures of Michael and the Growth of Human Freedom
• Michael-Imagination
• On the Genesis of Evil
• Threefolding and the Michael Festival of the Future
• Easter and Michaelmas
• Trust in Spirit Bring Michael-Strength
• Michael's Ascent to Time Spirit and His Battle with the Dragon
• The Art of Education: Bulding the Vehicle in which Michael Will Ride into Our Civilization
• On the Being of Michael - His Gaze - Rejection of Nationalism
• The Message of Michael
• The Equilibrium Between Lucifer and Ahriman through Christ
• A Picture of Equilibrium
• On the Mystery of Michael
• From the New Testament

The Mission of the Folk Souls
in relation to Teutonic mythology

Eleven lectures by Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$22.00

According to Steiner's spiritual teachings, each “folk”—each race or ethnic group—has a kind of over-soul that interacts with those people, lending them unique characteristics that affect the karma and destiny of tribes, races, and nations. These lectures explore the nature and activities of the various folk souls, their influences, and their meaning in the modern world.

Nature Spirits

Selected Lectures by Rudolf Stiener

Softbound

$25.00

Long ago human beings had an natural spiritual vision that allowed them to easily commune with the spiritual beings of the natural world. Over time, people became less able to see and know these beings, and fairies, gnomes, dwarfs and other "little folk" became the stuff of legends, myths, and children's stories. Rudolf Steiner was among the first of our modern age to insist that these folk tales and fairy stories were in fact based on reality - spiritual reality. He further asserted that we must now transform the old, instinctive knowledge of these beings into a clear scientific knowledge - and that by doing so we can restore and rebuild the shaky bridge that lies between humankind and the spiritual world.

These lectures are filled with fascinating descriptions about the the many spiritual helpers of the natural world. They also serve beautifully to characterize the relationship of human beings to this world and offer ways in which we as individuals can once again befriend the "wee folk" who carry with them the health of the Earth.

Perceiving Plants: Experiencing Elemental Beings
The Influence of Gnomes, Nymphs, Sylphs and Fire Spirits upon the Life of Plants

Dick van Romunde

Translated by James Lee and Jannebeth Röell

Softbound

Regular Price: $12.95

Introductory Price: $11.95

Perceiving Plants was originally written as an introduction to Rudolf Steiner's Man as Symphony of the Creative Word (newly titled in English as Harmony of the Creative Word). From there, van Romunde expanded it and the result is this amazing little book in which the author teaches us how to become sensitive to the nature beings that sustain and effect plant life.

Whether you begin next to a favorite potted plant or out in a beautiful meadow, you'll find van Romunde teaching you things that will forever change the way you look at the natural world -- and will probably forever change your life. For, once we become truly awake to the helpful nature spirits, it is very difficult to go on as though they didn't exist, as if what we did really didn't matter.

Perceiving Plants offers us a uniquely joyous awakening to both the nature spirits and our own responsibility. A lovesong to both plants and the beings who create within them.

Fairy Worlds and Workers
A Natural History of Fairyland

Marjorie Spock

Softbound, large format

$12.95

Close enough to touch with an outstretched hand or the mere lifting of an eyebrow lie the borders of a fabulous country. It was once familiar ground to all, a place where gods and men lived together in profound communion. But new goldfields of experience beckoned; the old was abandoned in a rush, lost sight of, and soon largely forgotten. Now people are beginning to feel bereft without it and are trying to find their way back again to that lost kingdom.

- Marjorie Spock in Fairy Worlds and Workers

And so Marjorie Spock begins the journey - on which we are invited - into the world of life that is the fairies' realm. I think you'll find as I did, that the journey she leads us on draws us closer to these beings at work and play wherever nature is invited into our lives. This is a book to really enjoy!

The Influences of Lucifer & Ahriman

Five Lectures by Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

Sorry - currently out of print

In these lectures, Rudolf Steiner focuses on the vital task of developing a right orientation toward a free spiritual life. With great compassion and understanding he shows, in telling examples, how humanity must walk a conscious middle path between the two "tempting" powers of Lucifer and Ahriman. He describes the incarnation of Lucifer, in the third millennium BC, from which flowed not only the wisdom of paganism but also the intellectual consciousness we enjoy today; Ahriman is shown to be approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism, nationalism, and literalism in preparation for his incarnation in the millennium now opening. It must not be thought however, that these two powers work apart: on the contrary, they work more and more together. Our task is to hold them in balance, continually permeating the one with the other:

Lucifer and Ahriman must be regarded as two scales of a balance, and it is we who must hold the beam in equipoise. How can we train ourselves to do this? By permeating what takes Ahrimanic form within us with a strongly Luciferic element.

Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.

The Human Soul and the Opposing Powers
Images linking feminine and masculine tendencies with influences of Lucifer and Ahriman

John Canning

Softbound

$34.95

Many years ago John Canning experienced a fourth soul-force in addition to thinking, feeling and willing. Although he has not found this explicitly described by Steiner, there are numerous lectures that support its truth and significance. He calls this fourth soul-force 'the depths of the soul' and uses its unique point of view to shed new light on several aspects of the soul, in particular the polarities of Lucifer/Ahriman and feminine/masculine.

Steiner's fundamental conviction was that good is to be found as the balance between various polar opposite forms of evil. Canning points out that this balance is by no means always at a static point midway between two extremes. For example, self-respect and modesty are good opposites while pride and self-deprecation are bad opposites. A reliable basis for individual moral judgment is not to be found in our thinking or feeling or willing or earthly Ego, but in the hidden depths of our spirit, including our higher Ego and our conscience.