Our Father, Who Art in the Heavens
To whom am I speaking when I say, “Our father, who art in the heavens”? Many of us will have spoken these words often without spending much thought on whom […]
Point, Circle, and the Lord’s Prayer
The exercise given in the Curative Course by Rudolf Steiner based on the point and the circle emphasizes the process of transforming the two into each other: the point becomes […]
2nd Michaelmas: Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, 6:10-19 New Translation
What it comes to in the end is this: grasp the power which streams to you in the experience of Christ in the soul and in the powerful regency of […]
Evening Sermon, September 13, 2001
In the autumn fruit trees stand ripe for harvest. With its fruit the tree offers its own living substance to the earth. It makes this sacrifice so that new life, […]
Apocalypse2: The Book of the Apocalypse to John
“The Revelation to John”, as a book, has a clear structure. It has a clearly defined beginning and end, as last week we have seen.2 John’s spiritual experiences, his visions […]
For the Advancement of the World 2: The Living and the Dead1
When preparing for the festival of Michael, we looked at the way our human role in the world is highlighted in the call of the archangel, as heard in the […]
Apocalypse (3)1 “The Second Coming”
It’s somewhat misleading to speak of a “Second Coming” of Christ, of Christ “returning” or “coming again”. Such expressions go back to words of the two angels who appear when […]