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In addition to the many new books featured in this issue, we offer new articles and excerpts for our readers.

“It was always important for Rudolf Steiner to make a lineal connection with those who had carried the esoteric traditions through time, hence his affiliations with Spiritism, Theosophy, Freemasonry, and various carriers of the Rosicrucian impulse.”

In our most recent Spring Reader, we presented part one of Christopher Bamford’s in-depth introduction to Rosicrucianism Renewed: The Unity of Art, Science & Religion: The Theosophical Congress of Whitsun 1907. This issue concludes that introduction, providing more background and context on the Rosicrucian Western stream of spirituality, leading up to the esoteric movements of the late nineteenth century and to the movement now known as Anthroposophy.



Nathaniel Williams, a high school art teacher at Emerson Waldorf School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has authored a short essay, “Thinking and Thankfulness.” In it, he discusses the important role of gratitude in Steiner’s spiritual path of knowledge. Drawing heavily on his intense study of Rudolf Steiner’s most fundamental book, Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom, Nathaniel shows how gratitude can help open one to inner development.




Following Nathaniel’s article are two excerpts from Youth and the Etheric Heart: Rudolf Steiner and the Youth Movement, 1920–1924. Following the publication of the “pedagogical youth course” as Becoming the Archangel Michael’s Companions (CW 217), later this year we will publish the extraordinary supplement to that volume, Youth and the Etheric Heart, which contains all of Rudolf Steiner’s addresses to the youth movement between 1920 and 1924. From this remarkable collection, we chose two “tasters,” one earlier and one later—in fact, Rudolf Steiner’s last address to young people. As you will see, “youth” here refers to all of us belonging to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In these talks, Steiner was helping the younger generation avoid getting stuck in the old thinking held over from the early days of the anthroposophic movement.


Next—in his article “The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner: Where We Are!”—Gene Gollogly, President and CEO at SteinerBooks, brings us up to date on the status of our goal to publish, in English, all of Rudolf Steiner’s works. This “open letter” to the world of Anthroposophy will be of interest to all who wish to see Rudolf Steiner’s name become as familiar in North America as those of C.G. Jung and other great thinkers of their time.




Lindisfarne Books has published two books by Marko Pogacnik in the past few years. This fall, we will publish his newest book, Sacred Geography: Geomancy: Co-creating the Earth Cosmos. Marko had this to say about the book:

“This is my second effort to present geomancy as a whole to the public consciousness. I wrote my first book on this subject in German more than ten years ago, titled School of Geomancy (Schule der Geomantie, Knaur, Munich, 1996). However, since that time my knowledge of geomancy, coupled with my practical field work, has evolved and deepened to the extent that I was compelled to write a completely new book.”

In the autumn of 2008, Marko and Ana Pogacnik will begin new Sacred Geography/Geomancy School Program. It will be a three-year program of three weekends (four to five days each) per year. Each session will be held in a different locale to maximize the experience of what the Earth expresses through its various geographies and the relationship of geomancy work to those sites. The best description of the work of geomancy is provided here in “Geomancy as an Alternative to the Language of Geography.”


The final article is titled “Recollections of Rudolf Steiner at the Youth Course, October 1922,” by Ernst Lehrs. In the early 1920s, Lehrs was part of a group of young people seeking social change. They gathered around Rudolf Steiner, who saw in them an enliv¬ening element for the anthroposophic movement. However, many older anthroposophists objected, feeling that the young should listen, learn, and keep quiet. The result was the founding of the Free An¬throposophical Society to serve the youth’s efforts.

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