Anthroposophy Today

Edited by Dan Lloyd and Iain Rodger

Summer 1986 No 1 Today is issued twice a year free of charge to members of the in Great Britain.

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(C) Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain, London 1986. ISSN 0269-3259 Summer 1996 - no. 1

Contents

In this first issue of Anthroposophy Today, which is to be published twice a year, the practice of dealing with a theme has been continued, and Rudolf Steiner’s lecture World Downfall and Resurrection provides inspiration for five contributors.

World Downfall and Resurrection Rudolf Steiner 5 Illness - a Gift of the Gods Susan Arstall 18 Education as the Key to Change Constance Cook 22 Mahler’s Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection5 Iain Rodger 26 The Redemption of Feeling Hugh Hetherington 30 The Need for Resurrection Erich Bunzl 34 Rudolf Steiner’s True Mission Steven Roboz 39 In Search of Rudolf Steiner Part One Rudi Lissau 46 A New Look at Old Stones John M Wood 50 A Book for Heroes Evelyn Francis Capel 62 On the Brink of Tranquillity David Lorimer 69 Forum 73 Book Reviews 77 This Ever Diverse Pair • Three Streams in the Evolution of Mankind • The Testament of Xanthippus • The Sun • The Year Participated • The Temple Legend • Manor Matter • The Four Ethers • Survival? Body, Mind and Death in the Light of Psychic Experience • New Vistas in Psychology / The W ay of Anthroposophy Poem 45 Anthroposophy Today

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Winter 1986 No 2 Winter no.21986Winter-Contents

Intervals of the Life On Earth Rudolf Steiner 5 Reincarnation: A Question of Reliability Stewart Easton 13 The Tragedy of 20th Century Germany John Lees 25 What is Sense-Free Thinking? Terence Davies 32 Marion Millett, Toymaker Monica Gilhooly Sharon 43 Freedom from Sexuality Iain Rodger 46 In Search of Rudolf Steiner Part Two Rudi Lissau 55 A Plague of our Times? Norbert Glas 59 The Foundation Stone Meditation Susan Stern 64

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Book Reviews 77 The Origins of Natural Science • About Your Relation to Rudolf Steiner • Aurora • Genesis - The First Book of Revelations • Toward a Phenomenology of the Etheric World • The Karma of Materialism • Soul Economy and

Poems Isis Sophia 70 Orpheus 92

A Christmas Meditation 91

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Summer 1987 No 3 Summer 1987 no. 1987Summer3Contents

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales Rudolf Steiner 5 Once, Twice, Thrice Upon a Time William Smirthwaite 28 Christ’s Second Coming Evelyn Capel 33 The Architectural Genius of Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey Charles Lawrie 40 In Search of Rudolf Steiner Part Three Rudi Lissau 48 The Gods Above and the Underworld Below John Lees 53 No Man Is an Island John Bowyer 63

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Book Reviews 78 The Gospel of St Mark • The Principle of Spiritual Economy • Embryogenesis in Myth and Science • Moses • Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms • Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind • The Qualities of Time • Fairfield Folk

Poems 91 Anthroposophy Today

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Winter 1987 No 4 Winter 1987 - no. 4

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The Three Stages of Sleep Rudolf Steiner 5 Tir-na-nog and Man’s Sleeping and Waking Marna Pease 17 Celtic Christian Individualism Allysen Caris 27 In Search of Rudolf Steiner Part Four Rudi Lissau 42 The School of Chartres Rene M Querido 48 Skill in Action Crispian Villeneuve 56 Anthroposophy and Politics Marek Majorak 64 How Old Is the Earth? N C Thomas 69

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Book Reviews 80 Macrocosm and Microcosm • William Blake - Prophet of Universal Brotherhood • Vision in Action - The Art of Taking and Shaping Initiatives • The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity • Destruction or Transformation of the Earth • Books Received Anthroposophy Today

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Summer 1988 No 5 Sum m er 1988 - no. 5

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Hermes and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt Rudolf Steiner 5 Old and New in Hermetic Tradition Andrew W elburn 23 The Renewal of Star Wisdom Margaret Jonas 31 The End of the Century Roma Browne 40 In Search of Rudolf Steiner Part Five Rudi Lissau 46 Pure Ethereal Stream Crispian Villeneuve 52 Faith, Knowledge and Belief Terence Davies 60 The Significance of the Grail Story For Our Time Rene M Querido 68

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Book Reviews 80 Eurythmie - • Old Testament Studies • Lyrics from the Book of Nature • Ariadne’s Awakening • The Golden Age of Chartres • Parsival • Rudolf Steiner - Life, work, path and social activities

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Winter 1988 No 6 Winter 1988 no. 6 Contents no.1988Winter6

The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth Rudolf Steiner 5 The Challenge of the Consciousness Soul John Lees 22 Three Childhood Years and True Egohood 30 Astronomy, Astrology, Astrosophy Robert Powell 40 The Conscious Soul Iain Rodger 56 New Forms from Old Life Anthony Kaye 60 Skill in Action Crispian Villeneuve 68 In Search of Rudolf Steiner Part Six Rudi Lissau 75 Rudolf Steiner’s Musical Impulse Elisabeth Gaertner 81

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Book Reviews 86 Goethe’s Scientific Consciousness • The Wisdom of Fairy Tales • Rudolf Steiner: Essential Readings • From a Notebook (by ) • Colour: Some Philosophical Problems from Wittgenstein

Poems Apple Blossom 74 Whitsun 80 Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Susanne Mainzer, Anna Meuss, Eileen Lloyd

Summer 1989 No 7 Summer 1989 no. 1989Summer7Contents

The Druid Stone 4 Druid Stone Sketch and St John’s Tide Imagination Frank Teichmann 5 Observation in Four Stages Robert Chamberlain and Barrie Christian 25 In Search of Rudolf Steiner Part Seven Rudi Lissau 32 The Reversal of the W ill and the Meeting with the Power of the Logos Georg Kuehlewind 39

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Book Reviews 51 Twin Roads to the New Millennium ■ The Twelve Holy Nights and the Spiritual Hierarchies ■ The Karma of Untruthfulness - Vol 1 • Scientists and Visionaries • The Waldorf Song Book • The Living Being ■ Birth; In the Midst of Life; Death Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Susanne Mainzer, Anna Meuss, Eileen Lloyd

Winter 1989 No 8 Winter 19898Contentsno.Winter

Tapestry: ‘The Boy Lives in the Spirit-weaving o f Nature' 4 Moral Insight and Moral Courage Michael Luxford 5 The 33-Year Rhythm 12 Biographical Notes on Time David Auerbach and Ernst August Mueller 18 Ptolemy and the Zodiac Norman Davidson 35 More About The Karma of Untruthfulness Rudi Lissau 41

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Book Reviews 50 Kings and Prophets • The Destinies of Individuals and Nations • W hat the Bee Knows • Computers in Education ■ Art Inspired by Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Kenneth Bayes, Anna Meuss, Eileen Lloyd

Spring 1990 No 9 Spring 1990 no. 9

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Frontispiece: Interior of Rudolf Steiner Bau, Salzburg 4 Anthroposophy and Architecture Kenneth Bayes 5 Architecture in Camphill Joan deRis Allen 18 A New Home for Anthroposophy in Salzburg Robert Lord 25 The Modem Movement Andrew Beard 28 Architecture for the Human Being Christopher Day 33 About Architecture Barbara Manteuffel 42 The Gothic Enigma Kenneth Bayes 47 A Confluence of Architects Kenneth Bayes, Tony Cooper and David Sutherland 51 Art and Science - Two Streams from One Source Rudolf Steiner 54

Book Reviews 58 The Philosophy of Freedom • The Ever Changing Garden

Colour printing in this issue has been made possible through gift money received from Joan Allen, Kenneth Bayes, Andrew Beard, Camphill Architects, Christopher Day, Susanne Mainzer, Philip Martyn, A nna Meuss and two others. I Anthroposophy Today

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Summer 1990 No 10 Summer Contentsno.199010

Frontispiece: ‘Michael’, metal statue by Hermann Gross, Camphill, Aberdeen 4 The Meaning and Value of Curative Education and Curative W ork Karl Koenig 5 Fifty Years of Camphill and Looking Ahead 8 Introduction Astrid Radysh 8 Outcasts - in Scotland Karl Koenig 10 Curative Education Annelies Bruell 13 Community Life Michael Luxford 16 The Fundamental Social Law Laurence Alfred 16 Village Communities Nick Poole 18 Newton Dee Village Tom Taverne 20 Other Impulses Vivian Griffiths 23 Associated Training Courses Gill Brand 24 Camphill in the Future Revd Peter Roth 25 The Spiritual Background of the Housemother’s W ork Manfred Schmidt-Brabant 27 Curative Education and Social Therapy Conference Karl Kaltenbach 36 Pure Ethereal Stream Part Three Crispian Villeneuve 39

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Book Reviews 49 W alter Johannes Stein: Eine Biographie • Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance • The Different Drum - Community Making and Peace • Grains of My Life’s Fire • Hermetic Astrology, Vol. 2 • Sun Space • Lectures

Books Received 59 Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Susanne Mainzer, Eileen Lloyd with assistance from David Macgregor

Autumn 1990 No 11 Autumn 1990AutumnContentsno.11

Frontispiece: ‘Cones in a Point’ 4 The Sun Nick Thomas 5 Science in the Future Olive Whicher 10 The Physical Sciences and the Anthroposophist Stephen Cradock 15 Knowledge and Freedom William Jordan 18 Causes of the First W orld W ar Rudi Lissau 29 Life, Mind and Consciousness Hedley Gange 40

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Book Reviews 57 A Candle on the Hill • The Christmas Conference for the Foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society, 1923-24

Poem The Butterfly 28 Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Susanne Mainzer, Eileen Lloyd with assistance from Margaret Jonas, Dan Lloyd, David Macgregor

Spring 1991 No 12 Spring Contentsno.199112

Some Reflections on Secret Societies Rudi Lissau 5 The Present State of Historical Evolution Christoph Lindenberg 15 The Hammerblows of Thor Charles Lawrie 23 The Spiritual Background of the Housemother’s Work Manfred Schmidt-Brabant 29

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Book Reviews 44 A Guide to Child Health • The Science and Art of Healing • The Christian Star Calendar • The Twelve Senses • Cosmic Apects of the Foundation Stone • Whither from Aulis? • The Golden Blade • Shoreline • Ancient Mythologies ■ Soulways: The Developing Soul-Life • Edgar Cayce - a Seer out of Season • The British - Their Psychology and Destiny

Poem Bereshith 42

Front cover picture: ‘Unfolding FormBronze sculpture by Manfred Welzel. Height l-9m. Photograph reproduced by permission of the sculptor and Verlag Freies Geistesleben. Anthroposophy Today

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Summer 1991 No 13 Summer 1991 no. 13 Contentsno. 1991Summer13

The Appearance of Christ in the Etheric World and the Christmas Foundation Meeting of 1923 Sergei O Prokofieff 5 Describing the ‘Second Coming' Richard Seddon 20 Towards a New Wisdom of the Stars Robert Powell 23 The Situation of Music Today Bernhard Mrohs 35

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Book Reviews 51 The Universal Human • The Mysteries of the Rose Cross and Other Essays • From Thinking to Living: The Work of Rudolf Steiner • Living Buildings - An Expression of Fifty Years of Camphill • The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation - an Esoteric Study of Festivals • Memories of the Future: W hy are we here on Earth? • Memories of Rudolf Steiner • The Uprising in Dying Poem Summer and W inter 22 Anthroposophy Today

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Autumn 1991 No 14 Autumn 1991 no. 14

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Russia Between the Past and the Future Sergei O Prokofieff 5 Who is Truly a Westerner Today? Henry Barnes 10 The Christening of the Imagination William Smirthwaite 19 Steiner on Acting Peter Bridgmont 23 Constellations, Signs and Reincarnation - Tropical or Sidereal Zodiac? Brian Dawes 30

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Book Reviews 50 Spiritual Development - Meditation in Daily Life • Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Psychology ■ The Riddle of Humanity • Kitezh - The Russian Grail Legends • The Human Life • The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail • The Mystery of Arthur at Tintagel • Christian Hermetic Astrology

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Front cover pictu re: adapted by Dorian Keller from a painting by Melita Kolin. Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Susanne Mainzer, Eileen Lloyd with assistance from Margaret Jonas

Spring 1992 No 15 Spring 1992Contentsno.15

Reflections on The Philosophy of Freedom Nick Thomas 5 A Michaelic Imagination Barbara Gardiner 12 Pure Ethereal Stream Part Four Crispian Villeneuve 14 Electricity and the Search for Meaning Hedley Gange 27

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Book Reviews 56 The Occult Significance of Forgiveness • AIDS - The Deadly Seed • The Easter Story Book

Front cover picture by Dorian Keller Anthroposophy Today

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Summer 1992 No 16 Summer 1992 no. 16 Contentsno. 1992Summer16

Frontispiece: ‘The Old Man with the Lamp ’

Goethe’s Fairy Tale - A Reflection of the Rosicrucian Path Dietrich Spitta 5 Prometheus, Shelley and the Rosicrucians Andrew Welburn 17 Vibrations of the Truth? Sevak Gulbekian 22 That Star Up There . . . Mariana Bruehl 32 Commonwealth or Chaos? Christopher Houghton Budd 38

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Book Reviews 48 Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher • The Book with Fourteen Seals • De Jundi Shapur a Silicon Valley • The Golden Blade • Man as Symphony of the Creative Word • Celebrating Festivals Around the World • Human Encounters and Karma • Coming to Terms with Destiny, Volume 1 • Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner-von Sivers • The Friend of God from the High Lands

Front cover picture by Rebecca Thomson: ‘The Ferryman ’

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Autumn 1992 No 17 Autumn 1992 no. 17

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Frontispiece: Rudolf Steiner in the studio at work on the statue o f 'The Representative of Humanity’

The Battle Against Spiritual Powers of Hindrance Dan Lloyd 5 Why Astrosophy? Hazel Straker 15 The Anthroposophical Book Christian MacLean 21 Some Reflections on Counselling and Psychotherapy Lee Sturgeon-Day 30 Christmas Story Hella Krause-Zimmer 41

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Book Reviews 46 The Karma of Untruthfulness, Volume Two • Coping with Karma: Recognising Your Life’s Path • Anthroposophical Medicine • Some Literature on the Grail • Liberation of the Actor • Working with Anthroposophy • Money for a Better World • The Evolution of Consciousness • Colour • Rudolf Steiner-: Briefwechsel 1912-24 * W er war ? Eine Dokumentation, Volume One 1876-1925

Front cover picture by Dorian Keller Anthroposophy Today

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Spring 1993 No 18 Spring 1993 no. 18 Contentsno. 1993Spring18

Frontispiece: Carving of an unknown knight, Ptuj castle Parzival - Image for the Consciousness Soul Michael Luxford 5 Thinking about Thinking Hedley Gange 14 The Mystery of Death Evelyn Francis Capel 29 Finding One’s Path Jean and Russell Evans 33 A Man of Our Time Andrew Welburn 36

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Book Reviews 45 Approaches to Anthroposophy • Ideas for a New Europe • Das Schicksalsjahr 1923 in der Geshichte der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft: Vom Goetheanumbrand zur Wehnachtstagung • He Who Saw Everything • Seven Soul Types • Rudolf Steiner Education • Storytelling and the Art of Imagination • Patter-Paws the Fox • The Mystery of Growing Up • Collected Plays for Young and Old

Front cover picture by Dorian Keller based on one of his paintings Anthroposophy Today

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Summer 1993 No 19 Summer 1993 no. 19 Contentsno. 1993Summer19

Recorded Sound - Blessing or Curse? Bernhard Mrohs 5 Only Music? Alan Stott 10 The Little Shepherd: A Ukrainian Folk Tale with a Commentary William Smirthwaite 19 My Early Days in Roy Wilkinson 26 Secrets of the Soil Barbara Saunders-Davies 36 Rattle of A Simple W oman Maggie Smith 41

Forum 43 On Secrecy • Thinking About Thinking • Finding a Spiritual Path, and Other Questions

Book Reviews 47 The Human Being as Music • Expanding Tonal Awareness • Highgrove - Portrait of an Estate • Bio-Dynamic Farming Practice • Change in a Changing World (The Golden Blade 1993) • The End of the Millennium • The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity • Renewing Education • Stories from Africa ‘Tsie Na Atsie'

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Front cover picture by Rebecca Thomson Anthroposophy Today

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Autumn 1993 No 20 Autumn 199320Contentsno.Autumn

The Christmas Foundation Meeting and the New Mysteries Nick Thomas 5 Community Building and the Word Michael Luxford 12 The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity - A Journey of Discovery R ita Stebbing 23 A Question of Race. Part 1: Malcolm X and the Michael Impulse Sevak Gulbekian 27 Translating Rudolf Steiner’s Lectures Anna R Meuss 38 Football Hooliganism John Wood 52

Forum 54 Gavrilo Princip - A Correction • On Occult Imprisonment

Book Reviews 56 Personal and Social Transformation • Eternal Individuality - Towards a Karmic Biography of Novalis • Extended Glossary • W er war Ita Wegman? Eine Dokumentation Vol. 2

Verses by Rudolf Steiner 11, 22

Front cover picture by Dorian Keller Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Susanne Mainzer, Eileen Lloyd with assistance from Dan Lloyd

Spring 1994 No 21 Spring 1994 no. 21 Contentsno. 1994Spring21

The Philosophy of Freedom: A Guide to Self-knowledge Douglas Caughill 5 A Question of Race. Part 2: From Race- consciousness to Anthroposophy Sevak Gulbekian 18 Relationships as a Path of Initiation Adrian Locher and Evelyn Capel 31 An Anatomy of Violence Manfred Schmidt-Brabant 36

Forum 49 Finding a Spiritual Path and Other Questions • Missing Chapter

Book Reviews 51 The Spiritual Event of the Twentieth Century • Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon • The Human Organs • Reading the Pictures of the Apocalypse • The Bodhisattva Question • Millennium Prophecies - Predictions for the Year 2000

Front cover picture ‘Easter Morning’ by Rebecca Thomson Anthroposophy Today

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Summer 1994 No 22 Sum m er 1994 no. 22

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Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Psychology John Lees 5 Three on Thinking Richard Bunzl 10 The Art of Biodynamic Compost Making Dorette Schwabe 18 Pure Ethereal Stream Part Five Crispian Villeneuve 23 World History in the Light of Saint Paul Andrew Welburn 30 Three Poems Paul Matthews 35

Forum 38 About The Philosophy o f Freedom

Book Reviews 41 The Transcendental Universe • The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness • The East in the Light of the West - Part 1: • Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdom of Nature • Lighting Fires: Deepening Education through Meditation • Kaspar Hauser Speaks for Himself • Sky Phenomena • The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends • Curative Education • Sophia: The Wisdom of God • Goethe’s Fairy Tale, ‘The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily’ • Songs of the Isles • Fal the Dragon Harper • Zen and the Art of Climbing Mountains • Christmas Plays from Oberufer

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Front cover picture by Dorian Keller Anthroposophy Today

Editorial team for this issue: Susanne Mainzer, Eileen Lloyd with assistance from Dan Lloyd

Autumn 1994 No 23 Autumn 1994 no.1994 Autumn23Contents

The Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain within the General Anthroposophical Society Rudi Lissau 5 The Struggle for the Consciousness Soul Part 1 Sevak Gulbekian 20 Jupiter and the Comet Stephen Moore-Bridger 26 The Mystery of Mercury and Venus Douglas Caughill 29 Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas: Inspiration for a New Theatre of the Word Christopher Marcus 45

Forum 48 More on The Philosophy of Freedom

Book Reviews 53 The Twelve Holy Nights and the Spiritual Hierarchies • Cosmic and the Changing Countenance of Cosmology • Awakening to Landscape

Poem Angela Patten 47

Front cover picture by Angela Patten Anthroposophy Today

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Spring/Summer 1995 No 24 Spring/Summer 1995 no. 1995Spring/Summer24Contents

Meditation Nick Thomas 5 Poem Nikira 11 Beyond Ideology Terry Goodfellow 12 The Struggle for the Consciousness Soul Sevak Gulbekian 26 Will Albion Awake? Charles Lawrie 34 Thresholds Angus Jenkinson 39 The Challenge of Old Age Floris Reitsma 45 Caring for the Dying Renate Sleigh 56 Nutrition Wendy Cook 60 The Architectural Concept of the Goetheanum Building Manfred Schmidt-Brabant 67 Forum About ‘The Mercury-Venus problem’ 71 The Healing of Russia’s Soul Forces Nicholas Nunhofer 75 Book Reviews 79 The Battle for the Soul • How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation • : An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and the Cosmos • The Veiled Pulse of Time • Esoteric Studies - The Michael Impulse • Erwachsenenbildung als Willenserweckung • The Inner Nature of Man and our Life Between Death and Rebirth • With my Heart in my Mouth • A Man Before Others: Rudolf Steiner Remembered • Rudolf Steiner’s Works in English • The Vortex of Life

Front cover picture by Rebecca Thomson Anthroposophy Today

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Winter 1995 No 25 Winter 1995no.25Contents

Anthroposophy Today and Tomorrow John Lees 5

Bosnia: The Revenge of the Blackbirds Terry Goodfellow 15

Films, Violence, and ‘Reality’ in Art Sevak Gulbekian 24

Pure Ethereal Stream: Part 6 Crispian Villeneuve 34

Forum The Moon 43

‘The Real Heartbreak of Translation ... ' Rudi Lissau 45 Five Examples Considered by Translators Anna Meuss 46

Book Reviews 49 Self-Transformation • Life Beyond Death • Towards Freedom • Freedom as Spiritual Activity • Understand Your Temperament • Medicine and the Mysteries • The Lady and the Unicorn • Rudolf Steiner’s Research into Karma and the Mission of the Anthroposophical Society • On Teaching Physics and Mathematics • Children with a Difference - the Background of Steiner Special Education • Peters Book of Rounds

Front cover picture by Dorian Keller