A Rudolf Steiner Resource Compendium

by John Ech

My studies of Rudolf Steiner’s works have profoundly influenced how I engage scientific inquiry and spiritual pursuits. This has echoed into Aether Fore in the past several years, as we entertain the Goethean research that has stemmed from Rudolf Steiner’s indications. While Steiner was a prolific writer and lecturer, it is also vital to note that when studying Steiner, we rely on translations, some of which aren’t that great, and even worse, rely on the translations of notes someone took during the lecture, demonstrating a couple degrees of separation from his literary work. But Steiner’s works aren’t something you just read for the sake of obtaining another bit of information and then abruptly move on. It is a living work and something you meditate on, put into practice, and see how it is reflected in your soul life. We must not take Steiner’s word dogmatically but as indications on how to extend our perceptions the supersensible world.

Beyond being a prolific speaker and writer, Steiner integrated his spiritual investigations into the practical aspects of life. His contributions span various fields: Waldorf Education, Biodynamic Farming, Anthroposophical Medicine, Eurythmy, Goethean Architecture, Social Three-folding, Ethereal Physics, and much more. Steiner challenged stagnant traditions and discarded dogma, advocating for a path of freedom through the enlivening and moralizing of one’s thinking, willing, and feeling. His work is foundational in liberating scientific methodology from the increasingly tight Ahrimanic grip of materialism.

 

Steiner foresaw the challenges of the technological age, warning of the hastening of the Earth’s mineral realm’s death through the utilization of the physical, centric forces. Physical forces are the inversion of the ethereal forces. His insights were intended to mitigate this crisis or at least soften the blow, as he offered humanity a way to rise from the confines of atomistic thinking. This path doesn’t lead to a Luddite existence but rather into a deeper engagement with the material world, imbuing our technological creations with the Christic impulse. Our aim, according to Steiner, is to spiritualize every atom, turning each into a work of art — what he calls the New Royal Art, achieved through the use of the vitalistic force of the TAU.

 

Steiner brought clarity to the spiritual impulses and evolutionary patterns at play in our past, present, and future to outline how humanity may safeguard and balance itself from the push and pull of the Ahrimanic, Luciferic, & Sorathic impulses. In particular spiritual sciences offers an opportunity for humanity to face materialism head on. There is no running away from the pandemonium, to paraphrase Steiner, but to rise higher into the spiritual realms than we are pulled into the sub-sensible via the Ahrimanic pull of technology. Development of moral and etheric technologies as a counterbalance was of utmost importance to Steiner.

Steiner laid a very profound imagination for how our evolutionary track has been hijacked to produce what is known as the 8th sphere, the eventual moon of New Jupiter, the next planetary condition of Earth. But yet the 8th sphere holds a strong presence here and now within the Earth. It acts as a sort of siphon for all of the immoral, shadowy, dead, materialistic thinking and deeds which will form bodies of the spidery electronic mass that covers the earth in its last days of the 5th Post Atlantean Epoch with the War of All Against All. Transhumanism and the mechanization of the human body will only facilitate this process, playing upon the natural loosening of our etheric bodies. Once the mineral Earth fades away, the matter that humanity imprinted with a moral impulse will yield the substance of humanity of New Jupiter, to whom we shall serve as angels. The other substance imprinted with immorality and shadowy thinking will be the moon of New Jupiter where the humans who became laggard in our current epochs from transhumanism will face their next round of Karma in the 8th Sphere.

 

 

Here is the legend for the links below:

 

1. Goethean Science/ Nature’s Open Secret

 

2. A Theory of Knowledge/ A Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe’s World Conception

 

3. Truth & Knowledge

 

4. Philosophy of Freedom (1894 Edition – 1916 Translation)

 

6. Goethe’s Conception of the World

 

10. Knowledge of Higher Worlds & Its Attainment – How to Know Higher Worlds

 

11. Cosmic Memory: Prehistory of Earth & Man

 

12. Stages of Higher Knowledge

 

13. Outline of Occult Science – Esoteric Science

 

14. Mystery Dramas

 

16/17. A Way of Self-Knowledge & The Threshold of the Spiritual World

 

18. Riddles of Philosophy

 

20. Riddle of Man

 

21. Riddles of the Soul/ Case for Anthroposophy

 

22. Goethe’s Standard for the Soul

 

23. Threefold Social Order

 

24. Renewal of Social Organism

 

25. Cosmology, Religion, Philosophy – Education of the Child & Early Lecures on Education

 

26. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge: The Michael Mystery

 

27. Fundamentals of Therapy

 

55. Supersensible Knowledge

 

81. Reimagining Academic Studies – Renewed Impulses for Anthroposophy

 

93. The Temple Legend

 

102. The Influence of Spiritual Beings Upon Man

 

105. Universe, Earth and Man

 

110. The Spiritual Hierarchies and their Reflection in the Physical World: Reality and Illusion

 

128. An Occult Physiology

 

147. Secrets of the Threshold

 

150. How the Spiritual World Projects into Physical Existence: The Influence of the Dead

 

151. Human and Cosmic Thought

 

177. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness

 

178. Secret Brotherhoods and the Mystery of the Double

 

181. Dying Earth and Living Cosmos

 

183.  Human Evolution: A Spiritual-Scientific Quest

 

197. Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind

 

201. Mystery of the Universe/ Hiereoglyph of the Universe

 

204. Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy

 

207. Cosmosophy Vol 1

 

208. Cosmosophy Vol 2

 

230. Harmony of the Creative Word (formerly known as Man as Symphony of the Creative Word)

 

231. At Home in the Universe

 

283. The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone

 

291. Colour

 

293. Study of Man/ The Foundations of Human Experience

 

312. Spiritual Science and Medicine

 

320. The Light Course

 

321. Warmth Course

 

322. The Boundaries of Natural Science

 

323. Interdisciplinary Astronomy

 

324. Nature Observations, Experiments, Mathematics and the Stages of Cognition of Spiritual Research

 

324a. The Fourth Dimension: Sacred Geometry, Alchemy, and Mathematics

 

325. Natural Science and the World-Historical Development of Humanity since Ancient Times

 

326. The Origins of Natural Science

 

327. Agriculture: Spiritual Foundations for a Renewal of Agriculture