Peter Selg

Rudolf Steiner received The Fifth Gospel--unrecorded events from the so-called lost years of the life of Jesus, obtained by grace and by spiritual research into the akashic record--as a "sacred obligation" to which he experienced a deep sense of responsibility. However, he never finished the project of unveiling it. Had he done so, not only Anthroposophy but also Christianity would have received an enormous spiritual gift: a concrete, soul-filled description of the Mystery of Golgotha. His deeply moving and often startling lectures in 1913 are thus fragmentary, giving the near-tragic impression that, because those who heard or read them did not take them up with sufficient seriousness and inner dedication, humanity has suffered an inestimable loss. "Steiner traveled through various German cities to give personal summaries of the Fifth Gospel. But in each center, he encountered the same "sleepiness." The thorns were already starting to prick; he seemed to begin hiding the content rather than disclosing it. He was forced to see in all clarity that the Fifth Gospel was not being appropriately received." (Andrei Bely) In this dramatic book, Selg tells the story of those lectures. He recounts their background and many of the most important episodes. He illumines and gives context to the excerpts with a profound yet accessible commentary. Most important, he offers insights into their importance to both Steiner and the hearts of those who heard and understood--even those who felt inadequate to the task. Those who has read Steiner's lectures on the Fifth Gospel and wondered about their significance will find here an inspiring guide to further meditation, while those who have not yet read them will find many reasons for doing so and discover a new way of understanding Steiner and his mission. Those unfamiliar with Steiner but wish to fine a meaningful, heartfelt way to Jesus Christ and the Christian mystery will discover a new way of understanding a new path to Christ. As Steiner said: "Knowing something of the significance of what Jesus lived through in preparation for the Mystery of Golgotha depends not so much on being able to recall...the events I have attempted to recount, but more on achieving a profoundly moving and shattering inner impression of what this person Jesus of Nazareth had to suffer in order to approach the Mystery of Golgotha and allow the Christ impulse to flow into earthly evolution. By reawakening these feelings and sensations of suffering in ourselves...we evoke a living impression of the Christ impulse. The more we succeed in reliving the surging, weaving experiences of a being such as Jesus of Nazareth, the more deeply we delve into these mysteries. (The Fifth Gospel)

Wie verhielten sich Weleda und WALA gegenuber dem Regime des Nationalsozialismus? Wie hoch war der Preis, den die beiden Firmen fur ihr Uberleben zahlten? Der Band stellt erstmals die Geschichte der mittlerweile weltweit tatigen anthroposophischen Pharmazie- und Kosmetikunternehmen zwischen 1933 und 1945 dar. Im ersten Teil geht es um die Reaktion der Weleda auf die politische Bedrohung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Anpassung und Resistenz sowie die Auseinandersetzungen mit Ministerien und Parteistellen. Aufgezeigt werden auch ihr Bemuhen um kriegswichtige Auftrage sowie die Kontakte zur DVA in Dachau. Der zweite Teil widmet sich Rudolf Hauschkas Laborgrundungen, seiner Tatigkeit in den Gnadenwalder Kuranstalten sowie seinen Kontakten zu einigen hochrangigen Vertretern des Regimes. Auch seine Inhaftierung, seine Vitaminforschung, Elixierproduktion und seine Tatigkeit im homoopathischen Krankenhaus Hollriegelskreuth werden thematisiert.

"Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe." This newly revised special edition of the Leading Thoughts, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death (March 30, 2025), marks the first ever bilingual (German-English) publication of his final written work, which he largely composed in the last months of his life (October 1, 1924-March 30, 1925). The Leading Thoughts and the essays that introduce them form the culmination of Steiner's endeavors to communicate the essence of anthroposophical spiritual science. They deal with the dawn of the Consciousness Soul Age, with Michael's battle with Ahriman for human intelligence, with the forces of Christ and Anti-Christ, with the future of the Earth and humanity. As his last written testament, this volume stands as a bulwark against the dehumanizing forces of modern civilization and as a call to all who would look earnestly at the state of our world and choose, in freedom, to seek a human way forward.

Das Buch stellt einerseits die Biografie Steiners in wissenschaftlichen Werketappen und wichtigsten Lebensphasen vor, andererseits informiert es uber Steiners Initiativen nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs. Dargestellt wird, wie Steiner sich um den Aufbau einer Freien Hochschule fur Geisteswissenschaft (Goetheanum) mit Sitz in der neutralen Schweiz bemuhte, von der humanistische Impulse in zahlreiche Lebensgebiete ausgehen sollten. Wirken sollte sie in Bereiche von der Medizin bis zur Padagogik, in Forschung, Lehre, Ausbildung und durch Modelleinrichtungen wie Waldorfschulen und anthroposophische Kliniken. Thema ist auch die erhebliche internationale Resonanz, auf die Steiner damit stiess - und der massive Widerstand, insbesondere in klerikalen Kreisen, die ihn als Haretiker und Gnostiker einstuften, sowie von rechtsnational-volkischer Seite, unter anderem aufgrund der von Steiner geforderten Uberwindung nationalstaatlichen Denkens. Eine Chronologie von Leben und Werk erganzt den Band.

During the 2018 Kaspar Hauser Festival in Ansbach, Germany, Peter Selg assumed the task of understanding the individuals in Kaspar Hauser's life and comprehending their significance for his destiny. He begins by unfolding the sociopolitical and philosophical milieu during Hauser's life, starting with Friedrich H lderlin and other significant luminaries of the time. A fellow student and friend of H lderlin said of Kaspar Hauser, "His fine facial features, his gentle expression, his beautiful bearing, his carefully tended attire, and the unmistakable loftiness expressed in his being have always remained with me," saying further, "Whoever saw him loved him, and whoever became acquainted with him remained his friend."Selg compares the biographies of Kaspar Hauser and Rudolf Steiner, who stated, "If Kaspar Hauser had not lived and died as he did, the contact between the earth and the spiritual world would have been completely broken." And Selg points out, "Through his path of suffering, Hauser prepared something that would allow new life and a new 'teaching' to enter the earthly realm.""It was not only fame that Kaspar Hauser and Rudolf Steiner shared, but also the common fate of suffering under the methodical campaign of their opponents. From the very beginning, the aim was to divert Hauser from his task--indeed, from his very individuality--through subjecting him to long years of confinement, through the assassination attempt in Nuremberg, and finally the fatal stabbing in the Hofgarten in Ansbach." -- Peter SelgWe are also able witness Kaspar Hauser's confirmation ceremony of May 20, 1833, in the Swan Knight Chapel of the Gumbertus Church in Ansbach. Eckart B hmer, director of the Kaspar Hauser Festival, wrote, "Kaspar Hauser's confirmation, probably in his 21st year, is possibly the brightest event of his short life."This book is a translation from German of the book Schicksals-Weihe. Die Konfirmation Kaspar Hausers (Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Stuttgart, 2018) and chapters 1 & 2 from Das andere Deutschland. ber Friedrich H lderlin, Kaspar Hauser und Rudolf Steiner (Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Stuttgart, 2016).

"When thousands are in the initial vanguard of a movement, these thousands have a higher, more potentized obligation...they have the obligation to practice, in every detail, greater courage, greater energy, greater patience, greater tolerance, and above all greater truthfulness in all things." -- Rudolf Steiner (Dornach, June 16, 1923)In light of the centenary of the Christmas Conference 1923/24, Peter Selg has written the four essays published here, which deal, each in its own way, with the past, present, and future of the Anthroposophical Society and its School for Spiritual Science. Selg outlines important historical background to the Christmas Conference, shedding light on the origins of the re-founding of the Society, what necessitated it, and what Rudolf Steiner was hoping to achieve.Though much good work has been done over the past hundred years, many of the issues that hindered the Society and movement in Steiner's time still persist today. This book is intended as a call to self-knowledge for members of the Anthroposophical Society, a call to actively take up the work of "furthering the development of the task-centered worldwide Society that Steiner made so clearly visible in 1923."Rudolf Steiner's words, spoken one hundred years ago, retain their power and urgency today: "Try to grow together with the world That will be the best, the most significant 'program.' That cannot be put in our statutes--but we should be able to take it as a flame into our hearts."This book is a translation of Die anthroposophische Weltgesellschaft und ihre Hochschule, originally published in German by Verlag am Goetheanum (Dornach, 2023) in collaboration with the General Anthroposophical Section of the School for Spiritual Science.

"We, the people of the fifth post-Atlantean period...we have to resolve, to the greatest extent possible and in a way that is filled with the power of life, the problem that one can call the problem of evil. I ask you to think about this in some depth. The fact that evil, which will approach the human being of the fifth post-Atlantean period in every possible form and will do this in such a way that the human being will have to resolve the very nature and being of evil scientifically, will have to come to grips, in all his or her loving and hating, with everything that stems from evil, and battle and wrestle with evil's resistance to impulses of the will; all this belongs to the task of the fifth post-Atlantean period." -- Rudolf Steiner, Goethe's Faust in the Light of Anthroposophy, p. 85)The two essays published here were written on the basis of lectures given to members of the School for Spiritual Science. Their content therefore deals directly with the path of inner development outlined in the lessons of the First Class of the School.In the first essay, Selg address the necessary confrontation with the powers of evil as they appear in the Class Lessons and in our time more broadly. Only through confronting and overcoming these powers are we able to find the path to our true humanity.The second essay deals with the figure of the Guardian of the Threshold as a Michaelic teacher and guide along the soul's path into the spiritual world. This figure, Selg argues, is far too little understood in our time. He is a spiritual being of great significance who offers help to all earnest seekers.This book represents an ongoing effort on the part of Peter Selg and the leaders of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum to deepen and internalize the work with the Class Lessons for all members of the School for Spiritual Science.This book is comprised of translations of texts originally published in German by Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts: Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem B sen: Zur Schulung der Ersten Klasse . Hochschulvortr ge Band 1 (2019); Die Sprache des H ters: Zur Schulung der Ersten Klasse . Hochschulvortr ge Band 2 (2020).

"Ita Wegman is not only an inspiring genius of anthroposophy but a healing genius for the anthroposophical art of healing. Her very being harbors within it breath, courage, greatness." --J. E. Zeylmans van EmmichovenIta Wegman, MD, founded and directed the first anthroposophical medical clinic in the world--the Clinical-Therapeutic Institute in Arlesheim near Basel, Switzerland. This photographic documentation was compiled to mark the centenary of the clinic, which began its work in June of 1921. The book offers a pictorial introduction to Wegman's life and work.Photographs from her youth in Indonesia, her student days, her international travels, and her professional and educational activities in Switzerland, and other places, provide the reader with detailed and vivid insight into the various phases of her career. Timetables place the individual photographs, letters, and historical documents in the context of Ita Wegman's biography and work.In English and German."Even today, much too little is known about how resolutely Ita Wegman conducted herself during the period of German fascism and during the Second World War, how early she saw through National Socialism, and the extent to which she provided escape and survival aid to endangered people, among them numerous Jewish colleagues; how she saved anthroposophical-curative education institutes in Germany and how, along with her co-workers, she carried on caring for the children and adolescents who had been entrusted to them." (from the book)

Laakareille pitamaansa esitelmaan pohjautuvassa teoksessa Peter Selg tuo esille Rudolf Steinerin antamia parantavia valomantroja. Taustalla on valo, josta Johanneksen evankeliumissa puhutaan ja sen suhde ihmisen sisalla elavaan henkiseen valoon. Mantrat vahvistavat sisaista valoa, joka voi vaikuttaa aina fyysiseen terveyteen asti, kuten kirjassa kasitellyista potilaskertomuksista ilmenee.