Easter
The Legends and the Facts

Eleanor C Merry

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$26.95

In this volume, Eleanor Merry applies her remarkably wide-ranging knowledge of world religion and mythology to the Easter story. She focuses on three legends: that of The Holy Grail and Perceval; an old Irish legend, and the legend of Faust.

With the Sun, the Moon, and Nature forming a continuous background to her ideas, Merry draws out the common themes that lead, ultimately, to the Christian Easter story.

Secrets of the Stations of the Cross and the Grail Blood
The Mystery of Transformatin

Judith von Halle

Hardbound

$24.00

After she received the stigmata in 2004, Judith von Halle began vividly to experience the events that occurred at the time of Christ. These continuing experiences are not visionary or clairvoyant in nature, but constitute an actual participation, involving all human senses, in the events themselves. To complement this method of witnessing Christ’s life, von Halle applies a spiritual-scientific mode of observation—a form of research based on one’s true being—the human “I”—crossing the spiritual threshold while fully conscious. Combining the results, here she describes, in her most powerful book to date, secrets connected to various events of Christ’s Passion.

Von Halle discusses the Mystery of Golgotha in its relationship to the formation of the Resurrection Body; the Mystery of the Spear Wound in Christ’s side and the Grail Blood; and how Christ’s Seven Words on the Cross relate to the Stations of the Cross.

And If He Has Not Been Raised . . .
The Stations of Christ's Path to Spirit Man

Judith von Halle

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$30.00

At Passiontide 2004, Judith von Halle received the stigmata, the duplication on her body of the wounds of Christ. Following a period of careful consideration, she eventually decided to share this intimate occurrence with a small group in Berlin in Michaelmas of that year. Usually, the phenomenon of the stigmata is either seen as a sheer miracle or simply denied. By contrast, in her first lectures contained in this volume, she tries—based on Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual scientific knowledge—to understand it and its significance for personal destiny.

As a result of receiving the stigmata, von Halle began to experience the events of the life of Christ in full sensory detail. Moreover, she has explored these events through spiritual scientific research, sometimes called “continuity of consciousness.” In the following five lectures, she offers commentary to the Mystery of Golgotha, the “turning point in world history.” Her intention is to stimulate the reader to reflect patiently and repeatedly upon this great mystery and to enter an continually closer relationship with Christ.

Contents:

1. About the Knowledge and Reality of the Resurrection of Christ
2. The Significance of the Phantom, the Resurrection Body, for an Understanding of the Human Being
3. The Mystery of Golgotha as the End of the Old and Beginning of the New Initiation
4. An Account of the Events between Death and Resurrection (Descent into Hell)
5. The Transfiguration on Mount Tabor and the Last Night on the Mount of Olives
6. The Event of Easter at the Time of Christ
7. The Event of Whitsun at the Time of Christ and Its Connection with Anthroposophy

Jesus, Lazarus, and the Messiah
Unveiling Three Christian Mysteries

Charles S. Tidball
with Robert Powell

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$25.00

— The Rev. Canon Michael Wyatt, Canon Theologian and Director of Education at the Cathedral College, Washington National Cathedral

At the heart of the mystery of Christianity, we encounter the divinity of Jesus Christ—the revelation of the descent of God from the spiritual world into the material world for the sake of humanity. To unveil the meaning of this cosmic event, authors Charles Tidball and Robert Powell (in his two chapters) draw on four very different sources: the Gospels themselves, medieval and Renaissance tradition and art, the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich, and the spiritual science, or Anthroposophy, of Rudolf Steiner.

Viewing the former in the light of the latter, the authors unravel three key riddles: the nature of Jesus, the identity of Lazarus and the meaning of his initiatory “raising from the dead,” and the Messianic mystery of the incarnation of the Christ. In the process, much is learned of the actual dating of the Gospel events, as well the repercussions of these events in history.

This is a book for all those who want a deeper understanding of the New Testament Gospels and, especially, for those interested in the “Jesus mysteries.”

Humanity as a whole produced evangelists as mediators, who provided revelations that can be understood only gradually. These scriptures will be understood more and more as humanity progresses.

—Rudolf Steiner, 1911

The Esoteric Meaning in Raphael's Paintings
The Philosophy of Composition in The Disputa, The School of Athens, The Transfiguration

Giorgio I Spadaro

Includes full-color plates of each painting as well as black-and-white line drawings

Softbound

$20.00

Step into three of Raphael's most well-known and also most complex paintings and discover the artist's language that reveals deep truths and relationships both human and divine. Just a glance at any of these paintings quickly reveals that geometry plays an enormous role in the composition, but Spadaro goes well beyond the superficial concept of "balance of composition" to reveal that each degree of placement and it's counterparts carry a deep, often sacred, message to humanity. And he does much more than even this (as if this weren't enough!): He identifies each and every character in these paintings that are so filled with people, introduces us to their story and then paints with his words and drawings the infinitely rich tapestry that their lives contribute, in just that very spot, at just that very moment, to the sum total that each marvelous painting then becomes.

This book is a joy - the work of a master about the work of a master.

The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations

From the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich 1774-1824

As recorded in the journals of Clemens Brentano

Four volume set

Softbound

$75.00

These four volumes record the visions of the famous 19th-century Catholic mystic, Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich, as recorded at her bedside by Clemens Brentano. Emmerich was nun who beheld innumerable events of biblical times, going back all the way to the creation of the world. Her sense of the mysteries contained in details is amazing, inspiring even. Her visions include the fall of the Angels, the sin of Adam, Noah and the Flood, the lives of St. John the Baptist, St. Anne, St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Mary Magdalen. The focus of her visions however, was the birth, life, public ministry, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, as well as the founding of His Church. It is this that forms the content of this 4-volume set. Her visions and Brentano's work in recording them were known to Rudolf Steiner, who valued them as being highly accurate as mystical pictures describing the actual events.

The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Anne Catherine Emmerich

As transcribed by Clemens Brentano

Softbound

$18.00

When the wide-ranging comments about Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ began appearing in the papers, I was as interested as anyone. As more and more of the storyline was described, I found myself saying, "It sounds like he must be basing the movie on Anne Catherine Emmerich's The Dolorous Passion of the Christ." [first published in 1833] Interestingly, in none of the accounts I read, did they refer specifically to his sources, only vaguely to "Catholic legends." Finally, I did come upon more considered accounts, and it turns out that I was correct -- Emmerich's visions were indeed the inspiration for Gibson's remarkable movie.

I'd like to share my own experience reading this book, and offer it as having a unique, deeply heart-opening potential for anyone who reads it with a willingness to follow the story as if a friend witnessing the events.

I first discovered The Dolorous Passion in the late 1980's when I was working in the Rudolf Steiner College Bookstore -- Emmerich's visions were among the background material then recommended by René Querido. His comment about them was that Steiner had said they were "pictorially very accurate." I was intrigued and chose this book for my Lenten reading that year.

It was the most heartbreaking, heartwarming, painful, healing, love-drenched, and, ultimately, renewing road to Easter I have to this day ever walked. This is a story that can break your heart wide open.

Myth of the Nativity
The Virgin Birth Re-examined

Andrew Welburn

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$40.00

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive...” The story of the conception and birth of Jesus is one of the most mysterious events recorded in the Gospels, surrounded as it was by great signs and miracles. But how should we interpret what we call the Virgin Birth?

In this carefully researched study, Andrew Welburn says that we must look again at the stars, angels, and other signs, and penetrate the minds of the Gospel writers to find the real meaning of this most significant event. He suggests that at least three ancient traditions converge in the narrative of the Virgin Birth, each providing a layer of meaning that is, for the most part, lost to our modern viewpoint.

He concludes that the Virgin Birth remains a miracle through the fact that it makes us deeply question our view of the world and the spiritual realities behind it.

Contents:

• Memoirs of Joseph and Mary?
• The Shocking Truth
• Jesus as Noah
• A Near Miss and the Wrong Virgin
• The Christmas Gospel
• The Son of God
• Virgin Birth: The Mystery
  

The Hidden Gospel
Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus

Neil Doglas-Klotz

$14.95

Neil Douglas-Klotz has again given us a book that unveils Jesus/Yeshua as a full participant in a Middle Eastern culture whose worldview was one of spiritual interpenetration, spiritual Unity. Here God and humanity do not have the subject-object relationship that Western civilization has assumed. In the Aramaic world in which Jesus of Nazareth walked, it was so deeply known that the Father and all creations are One that the words of the language itself presumed and echoed this awareness. Unfortunately, this awareness was lost as the spoken Aramaic was translated into Koine Greek, then Latin, then German, then other modern European tongues -- all of them reflecting cultures that had long presumed a separated relationship to the divine.

What a wonder springs to life in Klotz's translations from ancient Aramaic texts! What comes forth from Jesus' words taken with deep understanding from his native language is moving, heart-opening, inspiring and healing.

As a small sample of what you'll find in this book:

Clear holy space around your Name:
let it be the center on which our life turns.

Focus your light within us - make it useful:
as the rays of a beacon show the way.

- two alternate readings of the second line of the Lord's Prayer, Matthew 6:9, from the Aramaic
(KJV: "Hallowed be thy name.")

The Hidden Gospel is a well inviting us all to drink deeply.

Prayers of the Cosmos
Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesus

Translated and with commentary by
Neil Douglas-Klotz

$12.00

If the English words of Jesus somehow don't really convey to you what you would expect from someone who says in humility and truth, "I am the Light of the World," Prayers of the Cosmos will not only confirm your suspicions that something has gone awry, but give you the cosmic truth you originally sought. The English New Testament (all translations) we know is a translation from the Koine Greek. Koine was sort of a "business Greek" and was itself used to translate the more provincial and more cosmically aware Aramaic that Jesus actually spoke. Aramaic is a language rich in its ability to convey multiple levels of human and cosmic experience. In this little book, translator Neil Douglas-Klotz gives us a Jesus who speaks in Loving Awareness of his consciousness union with Earth and All Creation. Wonderful!

Love and Its Meaning in the World

Lectures by
Rudolf Steiner

$24.95

After over 25 years of reading this book and thinking about its content, I am of the opinion that these are Steiner's most important lectures. A better knowledge and understanding of their content would go a long way toward removing a lot of the dogmatism and hierarchical thinking that has permeated the Anthroposophical movement and the world at large over the years. The title lecture alone is worth the price of the book - in it Steiner clarifies with poignant and exquisite beauty that the Being called Christ is Love, that anyone for whom Love is the primary reality of life is "Christian," regardless of whether he or she has ever heard of Jesus or Christ.

In relation to his development of Anthroposophy, love is the very heart and ground of all Steiner's teaching, the foundation of all he did, and all he hoped that others would do. These are the lectures that make that usually implicit assumption explicit - these are the lectures that reveal the foundation of his work. Steiner taught that, without love, nothing is possible; but that with love, we can do everything. Love is always love of the not-yet. To love is to create; it is to enter selflessly into the current of time that flows toward us from the future.

This collection brings together all of Steiner's main lechers and writings relating to love - from earthly love to the nature and function of spiritual love. Among the topics included are: The Mystery of Love; The Division into Sexes; The Mission of Reverence; the Buddha's Teaching of Compassion; and Love, Faith, Love, Hope; and the title lecture.

Wonderful reading!

Christianity as Mystical Fact

Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Andrew Welburn

$16.95

Rudolf Steiner clearly presents a vision of the relationship of Christ to the world that is both creation centered and universal. We hope that the understanding possible through these thoughts will transform discord between "Christians" and "non-Christians" into renewed understanding, moving us beyond our apparent differences toward a celebration of every possible way of seeing Love alive in the Earth today.

According to Matthew
The Gospel of Christ's Humanity

(formerly titled, The Gospel of St. Matthew)

Rudolf Steiner

Introduction by Richard Smoley

$25.00

If we read [Steiner’s] lectures with an open and attentive inner eye, we may be able to see the Christ mystery, not as a collection of dogmas or facts, but as a spiritual impulse that stretches far beyond the limits of Christ’s own time and even of the lifespan of Christianity itself. We may even catch a glimpse of the high powers that govern the life of civilizations and of the great entity known as the human race.

—Richard Smoley
(from the introduction)

For centuries people have been baffled by the varying accounts of Christ’s life as presented in the four Gospels and have struggled to reconcile them. In these profound and stimulating lectures, Steiner addresses this conundrum. He shows how each of the Gospels presents a different lens onto Christ’s life and message.

Here Steiner reveals the Gospel of Matthew as the one that emphasizes Christ’s humanity. But he does not stop there; his visionary perspective traces Christ’s life and message to spiritual impulses that go back centuries, even millennia, to the legendary civilization of Atlantis, to the mysterious Zarathustra, and to the Jewish sect known as the Essenes.

An introduction by Richard Smoley, author of Inner Christianity, puts Steiner’s vision into perspective for modern readers. Once you have experienced Steiner’s powerful exploration of Matthew, you will never see the Gospels in the same way again.

The Gospel of St. Mark

Rudolf Steiner

$24.95

Mark is the choleric Gospel writer, someone who's strength of will and conviction impressed the page with compact descriptions, crisp images, and a Greek that retained the concise depth of Mark's native Aramaic. From beginning to end, you can read his Gospel in about an two hours--but it will be two hours of potential personal breakthrough into a personal knowing of Christ Love. Steiner's lectures unveil the human and cosmic mysteries that inform what appears as St. Mark's brief account, and re-present this Gospel as the one in which the full relationship of Christ and the human being, Jesus of Nazareth, is revealed.

According to Luke
The Gospel of Compassion and Love Revealed

(formerly titled The Gospel of St. Luke)

Rudolf Steiner

Introduction by Robert McDermott

$16.95

Steiner was born with clairvoyant capacities, but it was not until he was forty that he could connect his inner experiences with Jesus Christ. After that “solemn festival of knowledge,” as he described it in his Autobiography, Steiner received ceaseless revelations about the significance of the Christ’s incarnation. For the next twenty years, he spoke of the hidden background to all four gospels, the Book of Revelations, and even what he called the Fifth Gospel, read directly from the spirit worlds.

These lectures present the most accessible and illuminating of Steiner’s revelations about the significance of the Christ for the spiritual development of humanity. He discusses the link between the Buddha and the Christ, which unites Buddhism and Christianity—not in theory but in the spiritual activities of those two beings. Steiner also describes the relationship between the Greek Mystery traditions and the Mystery of Golgotha:

A sign was to be placed before them as well, a sign that would now be enacted before the eyes of all humankind. The “mystical death,” which had been a ceremonial act in the Mystery temples for hundreds and thousands of years, would now be presented on the great stage of world history. Everything that had taken place in the secrecy of initiation temples was brought into the open as a single event on Golgotha.

Utilizing a historical overview, revealing the relationship between the great religious traditions, and how they have conspired together for the good of humanity, Steiner never loses sight of the Gospel’s great inner meaning, as echoed in the Gospel of St. Luke: “The revelation of the spiritual worlds from the Heights and its answering reflection from human hearts brings peace to all whose purpose upon the evolving Earth is to develop good will.”

Contents:

• Introduction by Robert A. McDermott
• The Four Gospels in the Light of Anthroposophy
• The Luke Gospel As an Expression of Love and Compassion
• Buddha's Contribution to Humanity
• Formation of the Nathan-Jesus Child
• Contributions of the Nathan Jesus from Buddha and Zarathustra
• Elijah, John the Baptist, and Zarathustra
• Christ, the Great Mystery of Earth Evolution
• Illness and Healing in Luke and in the Evolution of Consciousness
• Christ and Maitreya buddha
• Robert A. McDermott's descriptive outline of Steiner's Lectures on Luke
  

The Gospel of St. John

Rudolf Steiner

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$19.95

John was the disciple of whom it could truly be said that "his head rested on Christ's heart." Rudolf Steiner began his work of renewing the world's understanding of Christianity with these lectures, focusing on the most deeply spiritual of the Gospels. The result is one of the most probing and inspiring accounts of the mysteries of the Divine Word in its various manifestations and intent. These lectures are a priceless treasure.

The Apocalypse of St. John

Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$25.00

"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet . . ." Thus begins John's account of the momentous revelation that came to him in wave upon wave of pictures so deeply symbolic that they have resounded throughout human history and continue to echo within our human hearts. In these lectures, Rudolf Steiner offers some approaches for grasping the significance of these pictures in ways that can lift up our souls to the life of our spirits.

The Apocalypse of Saint John

Emil Bock

Softbound

$30.00

Emil Bock interprets John's rich pictorial language, which is often found harsh and mysterious, helping the reader understand that John deals with the universal problems of spiritual development. This is not merely a detailed commentary on the Apocalypse but a profound and encouraging examination of human needs in today's world. Bock shows how we can read The Revelation to understand Christ's position as leader through danger, both in the present and in the future.