Simply God
I wanted to give my first book, ‘Seek the light that rises in the west’, to two men. Last time I spoke about the learned doctor, this time I want to describe the other person. I ‘met’ him first when I was about ten years old, maybe even earlier. Every New Year’s Eve we spent […]
The wise old being and the newborn…
As I was in my twenties and doing the practical years in medical studies, I learned to know a very prominent person. He was professor in internal medicine and was head of the university clinic of the University of Amsterdam. The clinic was situated in the heart of the city – it isn’t there now […]
Heaven on Earth
The thirteen holy nights in midwinter. In the ancient Mysteries, before Christ arrived on the earth, there already were feasts celebrated at the four seasonal highpoints of the year: Midwinter, spring, midsummer, autumn. In midwinter the soul is the enlightener of the physical body and because she is very near to the darkness of the […]
Winter
The calendar of the soul gives the human soul the opportunity to feel the pure emotions that belong to the changing of the seasons. There are true peaks in it, where the soul can feel deeply the worthiness of the human being and the greatness of living together with nature on earth, with the world […]
Advent
In the calendar of the soul by Rudolf Steiner we can find verses for every week of the year. Through these we can live along with the seasons and learn to feel, to experience, how the human being – thus I myself – also has four seasons to live through over the year. Although the […]
How do we find freedom?
The question is: how can we find this inner mighty stream of freedom? Is there a kind of path to reach this field of freedom? The first step in this answer can be shown by the following quote from Rudolf Steiner (GA 78). Because there is no full translation of this text in English available […]
Bestowing virtue
To grasp this inner activity of thinking by thinking seems to be a morality-free inner deed. It seems to be a technical, philosophical capability that can be achieved by trying hard enough. Nothing is less true, however. To loosen ourselves from our own centre, and find a point of view in thinking that lies on […]
To reach the spirit through thinking
‘And there is a third objective: To make it possible for men to reach the Spirit through thinking, to cross the abyss and through thinking to experience the reality of the Spirit’ (Rudolf Steiner, The Work of the Angels In Man’s Astral Body). We have reflected on the two other objectives in the recent weeks: […]
Look at the angels, weaving images in our souls!
In his prophecy about the near future Steiner gave three warnings about what will happen if we remain asleep to the work of the angels in our astral body. In the first he described were the changes in the area of the will, through which not brotherhood but a fight between people would arise, one […]
Motion and emotion
Europe has to receive many people who are fleeing their own countries. The question arises as to how we can keep our specific European nature while doing so. Movements are being stirred up that protest against such ‘flooding’ with people from the Arabic countries. But what is our true identity? Does it matter so much […]