God Becomes Perceptible in the Sacraments
The sacraments are liturgical acts performed by the community, in which the working of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy, Healing Spirit can become visible and […]
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Finding One’s True Self at the Altar
Spiritual seekers of all traditions and times strive to access a realm, which lies beyond our everyday reality. Often the entry into this realm is connected with an altered or […]
Responsibility in Redemption
It is an ancient debate: how much responsibility does a human being have for his or her own redemption? For redeeming others? For redeeming the earth? One picture is to […]
Renewing Christian Community
The Creed of The Christian Community contains the line: Communities, whose members feel the Christ within themselves, may feel united in a church to which all belong who are aware […]
Becoming Truly Human
We often use the term ‘only human’ to convey our weaknesses and our failings. But there is a further dimension to our being human. It is a dimension connected with […]
The “Cosmic Our Father” and the Lord’s Prayer
On September 20, 1913, on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone for the first Goetheanum, Rudolf Steiner spoke of a fifth gospel, and gave “as a first […]
The Lord’s Prayer and the Human Form
In his lectures on the structure of the Lord’s Prayer Rudolf Steiner spoke above all about the nature of petitional prayers, and pointed out that the archetypal prayer consist of […]
Apocalypse 1: The Writer1
The Revelation to John, the last book of the New Testament, belongs to those four centuries around the birth of Christ, two before and two after, which many people experienced […]
Looking Westward
As my days in Toronto become numbered, I find that leaving is not easy, but I feel it is the right step to make. Last year during the retrospection of […]
The Revelation to John: Structure1
Introduction1:1-8 1:1-3 John’s Preface and the 1st Beatitude (reading and hearing this book 1:4-8 John greets the Seven Churches in Asia – Voice of the Lord God Opening Vision1:9-3:22 1:9-20 […]