Mani and Service - Classics from the Journal for Anthroposophy

Mani and Service - Classics from the Journal for Anthroposophy PDF Author: Robert Sardello
Publisher: Steiner Books
ISBN: 9780967456249
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Means of serving in the world through spiritual science arose from the generous gifts of Rudolf Steiner. Such service requires ongoing inner development and presence to one's soul life as the medium of service, creatively and spiritually. Steiner was deeply aware and inwardly present to the reality of the spiritual tradition that inspires active service. The individual known as Mani, a third-century Persian mystic, and the spiritual streams that flowed from his teachings--the Cathars, Templars, and others--had the special purpose of "spiritualizing service," in that the spiritual worlds become the conscious wholeness through which we help others. Without the capacity to comprehend the nature of this wholeness and how to develop it, all of our attempts to serve can fall into mere functionality. The articles in this volume (previously published in the Journal of Anthroposophy) present a picture of Manicheism, which Steiner held in high esteem. The authors discuss the long-forgotten cosmology and practices of Mani, which hold important seeds for the future; the inner capacities inspired by Manicheism that relate to serving others; caring for the wounded soul; being able to help others in the most selfless ways; and working through the heart. Mani & Service presents these articles together for the first time. CONTENTS: Robert Sardello, "Anthroposophy and the Spiritual Stream of Mani" Rudolf Steiner, "The Cosmic Christ" (from a Christmas lecture) Déodat Roché, "Cathar Tales: 'The Man of All Colors' and 'The King of the Crows'" Hilmar Moore, "Listening Space: A Conversation with Alan Lovette" Andrew Welburn, "Manichean Writings" David A. Pellegrino, "Love in Action though Interest, Empathy, Caring, and Kindness" Thomas Popalowski, "Alcohol, the Family, and the Wound" Déodat Roché, "The Cathars and the Platonists of the School of Chartres" Albert Steffen, "Three Poems" Andrew Welburn, "The Genius of Mani" Cornelius Pietzner, "The Spiritual Heart of Service"

Mani and Service - Classics from the Journal for Anthroposophy

Mani and Service - Classics from the Journal for Anthroposophy PDF Author: Robert Sardello
Publisher: Steiner Books
ISBN: 9780967456249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Means of serving in the world through spiritual science arose from the generous gifts of Rudolf Steiner. Such service requires ongoing inner development and presence to one's soul life as the medium of service, creatively and spiritually. Steiner was deeply aware and inwardly present to the reality of the spiritual tradition that inspires active service. The individual known as Mani, a third-century Persian mystic, and the spiritual streams that flowed from his teachings--the Cathars, Templars, and others--had the special purpose of "spiritualizing service," in that the spiritual worlds become the conscious wholeness through which we help others. Without the capacity to comprehend the nature of this wholeness and how to develop it, all of our attempts to serve can fall into mere functionality. The articles in this volume (previously published in the Journal of Anthroposophy) present a picture of Manicheism, which Steiner held in high esteem. The authors discuss the long-forgotten cosmology and practices of Mani, which hold important seeds for the future; the inner capacities inspired by Manicheism that relate to serving others; caring for the wounded soul; being able to help others in the most selfless ways; and working through the heart. Mani & Service presents these articles together for the first time. CONTENTS: Robert Sardello, "Anthroposophy and the Spiritual Stream of Mani" Rudolf Steiner, "The Cosmic Christ" (from a Christmas lecture) Déodat Roché, "Cathar Tales: 'The Man of All Colors' and 'The King of the Crows'" Hilmar Moore, "Listening Space: A Conversation with Alan Lovette" Andrew Welburn, "Manichean Writings" David A. Pellegrino, "Love in Action though Interest, Empathy, Caring, and Kindness" Thomas Popalowski, "Alcohol, the Family, and the Wound" Déodat Roché, "The Cathars and the Platonists of the School of Chartres" Albert Steffen, "Three Poems" Andrew Welburn, "The Genius of Mani" Cornelius Pietzner, "The Spiritual Heart of Service"

Mani

Mani PDF Author: Richard Seddon
Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing
ISBN: 1906999333
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Mani, the founder of the spiritual movement that has come to be called "Manichaeism," established an influential teaching that spread swiftly across Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe, but was later brutally suppressed. Little was known about this "Gnostic" religion until archaeological findings in the twentieth century revealed important aspects of Mani's biography and philosophical thought. Many years before those physical discoveries, Rudolf Steiner provided key esoteric insights based on his personal spiritual-scientific research, into Mani's life and work. Richard Seddon assembles pieces of the academic and esoteric puzzle, offering a lively and colorful picture of Mani and Manichaeism. He gives a succinct outline of Mani's life, the fundamental aspects of his teachings, and a description of the future spiritual role of Manichaeism. Seddon creates an image of a great Christian initiate leading a movement with the critical task of transforming and ultimately redeeming evil.

The Education of the Child

The Education of the Child PDF Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 0880109130
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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18 lectures in Dornach, January 9 - February 22, 1920 (CW 196) In the vast range of Rudolf Steiner's lectures, jewels of all kinds lie hidden in plain sight, awaiting only our discovery of them. Such lectures contain a kind of wisdom not found anywhere else. And sometimes, as in What Is Necessary in These Urgent Times, they also have a translucency and conviction that makes them transformational. In early 1920, political, economic, social, and spiritual chaos was everywhere. The old world had fallen apart and would need to be rebuilt. Anthroposophy, too, had to be remade. Recognizing this, Rudolf Steiner tirelessly working for the "threefold social order," establishing the first Waldorf school, helping to create businesses, and addressing the talented, educated, and idealistic young people who were beginning to turn toward Anthroposophy for answers. In these lectures, Steiner speaks in the new, direct "Michaelic" way, seeking the path to a new way of doing Anthroposophy. Throughout the critical situation of the time, he never lost his sense of humor or his compassion and equilibrium. His tone is warm, relaxed, and intimate. Rather than following a strictly predetermined path, he speaks directly from the heart about what concerned him. He stresses that the task of spiritual science is to awaken us to reality and to a true understanding of life that sees through illusions and understands the ever-present potential of evil. Speaking both esoterically and exoterically, he returns repeatedly to the importance of community, of meeting one another face-to-face, heart-to-heart, as individuals. Thus, rather than seeking power and control, we are called to cultivate trust and receptivity. This takes a spiritual transformation. We must learn to live this present life in the context of our greater spiritual life, which extends from before birth through earthly life and into the life after death that precedes our next birth. At the same time, we must come to know the Christ, who is to be met only in community. Selfishness, egotism, has no part in the new way: "When someone is alone Christ is not there. You cannot find Christ without first feeling a connection to humanity as a whole. You must seek Christ on the path that connects you with all humankind.... To be connected only with your own inner experiences leads you away from Christ." Steiner deals with many other important themes, as well, including "imperialism," the initiate behind Shakespeare, Bacon, and James I--makers of our modern age--and well as fascinating, initiatory remarks on reincarnation, esoteric physiology, and psychology. Running throughout the talks is the earnest admonition to be true to the spirit and the call to come to our senses and not fall prey to self-pity. Now, as it was then, the world needs us to be awake spiritually, and we need the world to be awake spiritually. There is nowhere to hide. What Is Necessary in These Urgent Times is a translation from German of Geisitige und soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsentwikelung (GA 196).

Manichaeism

Manichaeism PDF Author: Nicholas J. Baker-Brian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567110419
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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This is the first general comprehensive introduction to Manichaeism aimed at a non-specialist and undergraduate readership. This study will be a historical and theological introduction to Manichaeism. It will comprise a biographical treatment of the founder Mani, situating his personality, his writings and his ideas within the Aramaic Christian tradition of third century (CE) Mesopotamia. It will provide a historical treatment of the Manichaean church in late antiquity (250-700 CE), detailing the emergence of Manichaeism in the late Roman and Byzantine empires, in addition to examining the continuation of Manichaean traditions in the eastern world (China) up to the thirteenth century and beyond. The book will consider the theology of Mani's system, with the aim of providing a clear-eyed treatment of the cosmogonic, scriptural and ecclesiological ideas forming its foundations. The study will base its analysis on original Manichaean literary sources, together with rehabilitating the representation of Manichaeism in those writings that polemicised against the religion. The study will aim to demonstrate the highly syncretic nature of Manichaeism, and will look to move forward 'traditional' perceptions of the religion as being simply a form of Christian Gnostic Dualism.

Facing the World with Soul

Facing the World with Soul PDF Author: Robert J. Sardello
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060976187
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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In the only modern book referred to in Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul, Sardello shows readers how to reimagine the world to find peace, strength, beauty, and depth, by employing the arts of concentration, meditation, and contemplation, rather than belonging to an individual consciousness.

Beyond Vision

Beyond Vision PDF Author: Pavel Florensky
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861896395
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician – and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky’s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta Misler. Beyond Vision reveals Florensky’s fundamental attitudes to the vital questions of construction, composition, chronology, function and destination in the fields of painting, sculpture and design. His reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world, but this first collection in English of his art essays (translated by Wendy Salmond) will be a revelation to those in the field. Pavel Florensky was a true polymath: trained in mathematics and philosophy at Moscow University, he rejected a scholarship in advanced mathematics in order to study theology at the Moscow Theological Academy. He was also an expert linguist, scientist and art historian. A victim of the Soviet government’s animosity towards religion, he was condemned to a Siberian labor camp in 1933 where he continued his work under increasingly difficult circumstances. He was executed in 1937.

Camphill and the Future

Camphill and the Future PDF Author: Dan McKanan
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520344081
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The Camphill movement, one of the world’s largest and most enduring networks of intentional communities, deserves both recognition and study. Founded in Scotland at the beginning of the Second World War, Camphill communities still thrive today, encompassing thousands of people living in more than one hundred twenty schools, villages, and urban neighborhoods on four continents. Camphillers of all abilities share daily work, family life, and festive celebrations with one another and their neighbors. Unlike movements that reject mainstream society, Camphill expressly seeks to be “a seed of social renewal” by evolving along with society to promote the full inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities, who comprise nearly half of their residents. In this multifaceted exploration of Camphill, Dan McKanan traces the complexities of the movement’s history, envisions its possible future, and invites ongoing dialogue between the fields of disability studies and communal studies.

Theosophy

Theosophy PDF Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732461321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Sustainable Agriculture–Beyond Organic Farming

Sustainable Agriculture–Beyond Organic Farming PDF Author: Sean Clark
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038423041
Category : Agriculture (General)
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sustainable Agriculture–Beyond Organic Farming" that was published in Sustainability

The Soul's Journey

The Soul's Journey PDF Author: Lawrence Edwards
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595126480
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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"A profoundly personal exploration of our soul'squest for the direct mystical experience of the Divine. It combines the ancient wisdom of the East, Kundalini and insights from Joseph Campbell and C. G. Jung to illumine your path to God.