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Author: Adriana Koulias Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781085873659 Category : Languages : en Pages : 106
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Rudolf Steiner gave the Foundation Stone Meditation to the members of the Anthroposophical Society in 1923 after arson destroyed the First Goetheanum in Dornach. This event was the first of many terrible future obstacles that the society would have to face and he gave this meditation to strengthen the forces of the souls of those who would take it into their hearts. Sergei O Prokofieff, one of the foremost pupils of Rudolf Steiner called the Foundation Stone Meditation the quintessence of all Anthroposophy and for those willing to work with it, it is a path to one's true humanity, or one might equally say, a path to the spirit. For in it one finds the idea of trichotomy, or body, soul and spirit, something abolished at the Council of Constantinople in 869AD. It was only at the turn of the 20th Century that it was once again possible to speak of spirit and Rudolf Steiner was the inaugurator of the idea of threefoldness of individual human beings and of the society in which they live.It is this germinating spirit that is being threatened by adversarial forces in our times. For the adversarial forces would have the human being fall to the level of a beast and relinquish his or her humanity. In the Foundation Stone Meditation one hears a call to the human soul, to embark on the fully conscious development of this humanity, giving it precise instructions on how to do so and also, paradoxically, one hears a call from the human soul itself for the protection of higher beings against those adversarial powers who would seek to derail this development. In our time freedom means that if we want the help of the spiritual world we must ask for it consciously and freely. In this book we explore how this four part meditation meditation is such a question whose answer creates a counter force, counter balance, counter image and counter weight to the four adversarial beings working on human beings in our times: Asuras, Ahriman, Lucifer and Sorath. Never before have we needed to understand this meditation as we do today - our humanity depends on it.
Author: Rudolf Steiner Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press ISBN: 1855843242 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 52
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The Foundation Stone Meditation holds a central place in the inner life of many students of Rudolf Steiner's work. First presented during the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference of 1923/24, it is a powerful and penetrating meditative text which many consider to be a key to the spiritual mysteries of our time. This version features three alternative translations (by George Adams, Pauline Wehrle and Richard Seddon), together with the original German verses and an introduction by Michael Wilson.
Author: Willem Zeylmans Van Emmichoven Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing ISBN: 1902636376 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 128
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During the Christmas Conference of 192324 when the Anthroposophical Society was refounded, Rudolf Steiner presented to its members for the first time the Foundation Stone Meditation. On consecutive days during that week, Steiner showed how elements of the Meditation could be rebuilt into new meditations (sometimes referred to as rhythms), which could be inwardly practiced. Zeylmans van Emmichoven was present at that formative meeting and lived intensively with these rhythms for more than 30 years. Initially in the Netherlands, and later during his many journeys around the world, Zeylmans began to make people aware of the germinating forces contained within the Meditation. This volume remains a seminal book that has inspired generations of students of anthroposophy.
Author: Peter Selg Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing ISBN: 1906999414 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 89
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"People who practice esoteric exercises grow spiritually into the future; they experience in themselves what will one day come about, and what they experience in this way is what we know as the higher worlds. These represent future conditions of humankind" (Rudolf Steiner, Munich 1907). Rudolf Steiner spoke the Foundation Stone meditation at the Christmas Conference of the General Anthroposophical Society in 1923, giving it to the Society members for strengthening their forces. The meditation's words contain, as Sergei O. Prokofieff states, "the quintessence of the whole of Anthroposophy." Thus, Rudolf Steiner was bestowing on the members the possibility of dealing resolutely with the specific tasks that awaited them. In this short, potent volume, the author suggests further that "The Foundation Stone Meditation" represents the concerns of every individual of our time, allowing each of us to maintain our humanity in the face of the challenges and catastrophes of both the present and the future. Steiner said that one could hear the words of the meditation "sounding" in one's heart. This process of "hearing" will acquire even more significance and reality in future, and can be of enormous help to anyone who opens themselves to it. It is against this background that Selg has written this introductory book: to promote awareness of the meditation, understanding of its historic place in the catastrophic twentieth century, and its critical but latent contribution to the future.
Author: Adrian Anderson Publisher: ISBN: 9780958134118 Category : Anthroposophy Languages : en Pages : 102
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Rudolf Steiner gave The Foundation Stone Meditation in 1924. This profound text is designed to help people in their meditative work to make a real, inner connection to the spiritual source of anthroposophy. Dr. Adrian Anderson has made a new, accurate translation of both the verse and the lecture that Steiner gave at this time. The power of the book is in its commentary on the many subtle and deep aspects of the verse.
Author: Sergei O. Prokofieff Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing ISBN: 9781902636825 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 264
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Meditative reflection--strengthening thinking and feeling through the will--is one of the main methods of experiencing Anthroposophy. Prokofieff writes: "The best path to this goal is inner work with the Foundation Stone Meditation, because this meditation is the quintessence of the whole of Anthroposophy, given in meditatively inspired form by means of earthly words." Rudolf Steiner described the substance of the "Foundation Stone Meditation" as spoken by him "out of the will of the spiritual world," and as "verses heard from the Cosmic Word." Owing to its spiritual and mantric form, the text of this meditation represents an archetype and is thus a key to the most diverse areas of world and human existence. Depending on "which spiritual portal is opened with this key," explains Prokofieff, "one arrives at one result or another, and one and the same line of the meditation becomes a reply to the most varied questions." The author applies this method in this work and, in the process, illuminates and opens up many dimensions of spiritual science. His research embraces, among other aspects, the relationship of the "Foundation Stone Meditation" to the being Anthroposophia, the spiritual hierarchies, human karma, the Rosicrucian, Michaelic and Grail streams, the Mystery of Golgotha, the two Jesus children, the three spiritual sources of Anthroposophy, and even the Constitution of the General Anthroposophical Society.
Author: Rudolf Steiner Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 76
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" It is the endeavour of this treatise to convey spiritual-scientific knowledge concerning the being of man. The method of representation is arranged in such a way that the reader may grow into what is depicted, so that, in the course of reading, it becomes for him a kind of self conference. If this soliloquy takes on such a form that thereby hitherto concealed forces, which can be awakened in every soul, reveal themselves, then the reading leads to a real inner work of the soul; and the latter can see itself gradually urged on to that soul journeying, which truly advances towards the beholding of the spiritual world. What has to be imparted, therefore, has been given in the form of eight Meditations, which can be actually practised. If this is done, they can be adapted for imparting to the soul, through its own inner deepening, that about which they speak. It has been my aim on the one hand, to give something to those readers who have already made themselves conversant with the literature dealing with the domain of the supersensible, as it is here understood....."
Author: Cynthia Hoven Publisher: Heartsong Press ISBN: 9780615631585 Category : Eurythmy Languages : en Pages : 94
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Eurythmy is a modern movement art developed by Rudolf Steiner in which the sounds of language and music are expressed through gesture and dance. Drawing from decades of experience as a performer, teacher and therapist, Hoven offers new and inspiring insights into how the practice of Eurythmy can awaken our creative spiritual powers and lead to a deeper understanding of the meaning of life and our place in the universe. Offers a collection of essays that describe the essential nature of sounds and explains in detail how they are expressed through movement in Eurythmy. Includes practical exercises for self-help and healing, as well as meditations on 24 major vowel and consonant sounds.--Cover.