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“.... reveals the naked essence of God-Consciousness with words that burn into the soul and annihilate the illusions of the separate self.”

—Ikosmos.Com, leading website of integral spirituality on Mystics afterModernism

Mystics after ModernismDiscovering the Seeds of a New Science in the Renaissance

Rudolf Steiner (written 1901, GA 7)Foreword by Christopher Bamford; Afterword by Paul M. Allen; Translated by Karl E. Zimmer

This classic treatise on Western mysticism has proven to be one of the most durable and inspiring books written on the subject. First published in 1901, it has been in perennial demand ever since. In his preface to the 1923 edition, Steiner said, “I wanted to answer the question, why do a particular form of mysticism and the beginnings of modern scientific thinking clash in a period from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century.” Steiner’s answer to that question is prophetic, addressing the deepest needs of contemporary humanity.

Christopher Bamford’s penetrating forward paraphrases: “If we are to redeem the one-dimensional scientific worldview of modernism, we must do so by picking up where the mystics and humanists of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance left off, integrating their insights and ways of knowing with what we have gained from modern science to create a new ‘spiritual science,’ at once ‘mystical’ and scientific.” Even so, while that message could not be more relevant for modernity, the reason for the book’s enduring popularity may have more to do with the way the eleven mystics that Steiner explores, seem to come alive and transmit their messages in this book. After all, it is one thing for a scholar to tackle the subject of mysticism, but it is another thing altogether when that scholar is a true mystic himself. Then the result can be incandescent. Here, we find some of the greatest mystics in Western history—Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruysbroeck, Nicholas of Cusa, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno, Boehme, Weigel, and Angelus Silesius—as if they were sitting next to us, speaking to us with “words that burn into the soul and annihilate the illusions of the separate self.

Previously published as Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age.

Anthroposophic Press208 pages, paperbackISBN 0-88010-470-8$18.95

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“It will surely become the book on Heraclitus”— Colin Wilson on Remembering Heraclitus

“Richard Geldard’s new translation of and commentary on the great fragments of Heraclitus is an exciting event. This is no academic re-entombment with an up-to-date headstone. Geldard has a scholar’s knowledge and skills, but he has the heart and brains of a poet or a prophet. Geldard says, ‘Heraclitus succeeded in his enterprise by denying logic, by surprising us with astonishing paradoxes, and by avoiding the monumental.’ Geldard has done something similar, and as a result, Heraclitus is not a long-ago moment in the historical record; he is a living teacher.”

—Robert D. Richardson, Jr. author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind, and Emerson: The Mind on Fire

Remembering HeraclitusRichard Geldard

This bright, deep, meditative jewel-like study brings Heraclitus to life in a new way, and shows him to be one of the principal sources of Western mystical thinking. From Geldard’s point of view, the study of Heraclitus is not just an academic matter but, on the contrary, presents us with very real existential and phenomenological challenges.

Geldard, through his exploration of Heraclitus, shows us, “The more that human beings openly and humbly seek higher knowledge, the more they develop the power to perceive it, until finally they penetrate to the hidden universal order. The result of this penetration is knowledge of the Logos, that ‘which directs all things through all things.’ The acquisition of this knowledge is not an event; it is a stance in the world. It is Being in its fullness.”

Richard Geldard writes for serious readers seeking entry into the mysteries of existence and being. Some of his previous titles include The Esoteric Emerson (Lindisfarne, 1993), Traveler’s Key to Ancient Greece (Knopf 1989, Quest 2,000) and God in Concord (Larsen Publications, 1999). He previously held the post of adjunct professor of philosophy at Yeshiva University and holds his doctorate in dramatic literature and classics from Stanford University. He can be visited at www.rgbooks.com.

Lindisfarne Books176 pages, paperbackISBN 0-940262-98-3$16.95

The Voice of the Eagle

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The Heart of Celtic Christianity

John Scotus Eriugena’s Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John

Christopher Bamford

Forward by Thomas Moore

“Christopher Bamford has written a wonderful book. It combines a rigour of scholarship with a lyrical unveiling of how this wonderful text of Eriugena’s can resonate with the hungers and discoveries of our times. It deserves a wide readership. Its lucid depths enrich the mind and awaken the heart to the grandeur of light where the eternal shines.”

— John O’Donohue, author of Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

John Scotus Eriugena was born and raised in Ireland during the early ninth century. Neither monk nor priest but a “holy sage,” he carried to France the flower of Celtic Christianity. His homily, The Voice of the Eagle, is a jewel of lyrical mysticism, theology, and cosmology, containing the essence of Celtic Christian wisdom. He meditates on the meaning and purpose of creation as revealed by the Word made flesh, distilling into twenty-three short chapters a uniquely Celtic, non-dualistic fusion of Christianity, Platonism, and ancient Irish wisdom.

The translator’s “Reflections” make up the second half of this book and attempt to unfold some of the life-giving meaning implicit in Eriugena’s luminous sentences. Inspired both by a personal search for a living Christianity and by a sense of the continuity of Western culture, these “Reflections” offer a contemporary, meditative encounter with the Word, or Logos, as mediated by both St. John’s Prologue and Eriugena’s Celtic homily. This favorite of Celtic Christianity, unavailable for several years, has been revised and includes a new forward by Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Soul of Sex.

Christopher Bamford works as editor-in-chief of Anthroposophic Press and Lindisfarne Books. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured and taught widely. He has written frequently on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions for Lapis, Gnosis, Parabola, and Sphinx magazines. He is the author/translator/editor of Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness and The Noble Traveller. An essay he wrote on death and dying will be part of Harper’s prestigious annual Best Spiritual Writing of 2000.


The Secret StreamChristian Rosenkreutz and Rosicrucianism

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Selected talks by Rudolf Steiner

Edited & introduced by Christopher Bamford

During the early seventeenth century, Europe was suddenly embroiled in controversy with the publication of the first Rosicrucian texts. Ever since then, Rosicrucianism has stood at the center of Western Christian esotericism. Forced underground by the Thirty Years War, it was passed down secretly by alchemists, hermeticists, and Masons into the nineteenth century, when it inspired new spiritual movements, including Theosphy, the Order of Golden Dawn, and Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science.

The Secret Stream collects all of Steiner’s discussions of Rosicrucians, which answer questions such as: Who are the Rosicrucians? What is Alchemy? What is the Rosicrucian path? What is the difference between Rosicrucianism and mysticism? And what does it mean for today? Some of the topics include the Tao and the Rose Cross; the history and mission of Christian Rosenkreutz; the nature of Rosicrucian practice and experience; the meaning of The Chymical Wedding and Goethe’s Rosicrucian poem “The Mysteries.” Rosicrucian meditation is also discussed, including how to meditate on the Rose Cross itself.


Rosicrucian WisdomAn Introduction

Rudolf Steiner

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Translated by J. Collis, revised 14 lectures Munich, May 22–June 6, 1907, GA 99

The work of Rudolf Steiner uniquely combines esoteric teaching and practical suggestions for social development. Indeed, Steiner is best known today for the application of his ideas in education, medicine, and agriculture. But none of this could have developed without the coherent and profound spiritual knowledge at the very heart of his work.

This book is one of Steiner’s most complete introductions to modern spirituality. He presents the Rosicrucian path as appropriate for modern spiritual seekers, but warns that Rosicrucian teaching should not be taken as abstract theory. Spiritual ideas should reach into our daily activities, transforming every aspect of life. He then describes many facets of spiritual truth, including the law of karma, life after death, how to develop spiritual vision, humanity’s history and future, and much more.

Rudolf Steiner Press184 pages, paperbackISBN: 1-85584-063-4$14.95

A Christian Rosenkreutz AnthologyCompiled and edited by Paul M. Allen

Rosicrucianism is one of the most important—and least recognized—streams of Western spirituality. Exploding like a time bomb from Protestant circles in the early seventeenth century, it gathered together in a new, ecumenical synthesis all the wisdom of the ages. This unique anthology collects the most important of the primary documents, including many images and diagrams.

The texts include: The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, as well as The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, Hinricus Madathanus’ The Parabola, A Golden Tractate and The Holy Mountain, A Rosicrucian Allegory by Thomas Vaughan. Illustrated texts include The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians and Khunrath’s Amphitheater of Eternal Wisdom.

Rudolf Steiner, whose anthroposophy in many respects is modern Rosicrucianism, provides the framework with a long essay on The Chemical Wedding and extracts from lectures on the history of Christian Rosenkreutz, the Temple legend, Comenius, and Rosicrucianism in relation to reincarnation and karma. There is also a bibliography of references to Rosenkreutz in Steiner’s work, as well as an annotated bibliography of books and articles of Rosicrucian interest.

This is a key book for anyone interested in Western esotericism, alchemy, anthroposophy, and Rudolf Steiner. We are proud to make it available again.

Garber Books646 pages, hardcoverISBN 0-89345-009-X$100.00

Enlivening the Chakra of the HeartThe Fundamental Spiritual Exercises of Rudolf Steiner

Florin Lowndes

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In addition to meditation, the foundation of every spiritual path, Rudolf Steiner suggested certain essential exercises to protect against dangers that can accompany meditation itself. These “accompanying” exercises protect by helping us develop inner certainty and strength—achieved, for example, by intensifying thinking, controlling the will, and mastering our emotions. Such exercises are described in detail, with advice on how to practice them. The author also tells us that they help develop and strengthen living thinking, and consequently a whole new means of perception—the heart chakra. Here is encouragement and stimulus for any path of spiritual development.

“We can find an authentic modern way of working on the chakras in the exercises created by Rudolf Steiner, who, on the basis of a new kind of thinking process, recast certain yoga exercises in a form consistent with the modern and even future stages of (spiritual) development. In this way he fulfilled a small and little known branch of yoga meditative practice, the Gayatri-Sadhana, the goal of which was prophetic, for it was focused on the reversed Kundalini (awakening the energy of all seven chakras from top down instead of the usual upward method) in a way that had become possible only at this much later historical time” (from the preface).

Florin Lowndes has taught at college level and in Steiner Waldorf schools. He has studied anthroposophy since 1971 and has written for many journals. He coauthored The Human Life and founded the Center of Heart-Thinking in Boston. He leads training seminars in the United States and throughout Europe. Revised translation.

Rudolf Steiner Press208 pages, paperbackISBN 1-85584-053-7$19.95

“For [Goethe] it was never a question of discovering new facts but one of opening up a new perspective and viewing nature in a particular way.... In Goethe’s study of organisms one great discovery overshadows all else—the discovery of the nature of the organism itself. Goethe expounded the principle of how an organism manifests as it does, the causes leading to the outer

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expressions of life. Indeed, he illuminated everything related to the principles involved in such matters.”

— Rudolf Steiner, from the Introduction

Nature’s Open SecretIntroductions to Goethe’s Scientific Writings

Rudolf Steiner (GA 1)

With an essay on participatory science by John BarnesTranslation by John Barnes and Mado Spiegler

The holistic paradigm, Gaia, deep ecology, new alchemy, all have a hidden ancestor: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). At the young age of twenty-one, Rudolf Steiner was chosen to edit Goethe’s scientific writings for a new collection of Goethe’s complete works. Goethe’s literary genius was already universally acknowledged; it was Steiner’s task to understand and comment on Goethe’s unique scientific achievement. Rudolf Steiner recognized the compelling power of Goethe’s work with nature and developed Goethe’s theory of knowledge in remarkable and far-reaching ways. Here, in fact, began Steiner’s own training in epistemology and spiritual science.

Natural science had created a powerful tool for understanding the inorganic world, but failed to comprehend the phenomenon of life. Goethe discovered how thinking could be applied to organic nature, and he understood that this experience requires not just rational concepts but a whole new way of perceiving. This volume, Steiner’s introduction to Goethe, is nothing less than a re-visioning of what it means to know the world.

In an age when science and technology have been linked to great catastrophes, many are seeking a different way to address nature. With a fundamental declaration of the interpenetration of our consciousness and the world, Rudolf Steiner shows in Nature’s Open Secret how Goethe’s approach points the way to a more compassionate, intimate involvement with nature.

Anthroposophic Press320 pages, cloth/dust jacketISBN 0-88010-393-0$35.00

Consecrated VenomThe Serpent and the Tree of KnowledgeCaryl Johnson

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In this unique book, Caryl Johnson interprets biblical events as motifs of human knowledge. Beginning with the significance of the serpent as tempter and as a symbol of wisdom, she shows that human self-aware thinking began with the serpent’s temptation and the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. The serpent’s venom was to enmesh humankind in historical process through the human activity of attention and thinking. Through thinking, we are bound to creation by responsibility and moral presence; by engaging with history, we confront the greatest lessons for humankind.

The stories of Paradise, Cain and Abel, Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac, and God’s Covenant with humanity are used to explore the very nature of human awareness as imagined in the Bible.

Floris Books160 pages, clothISBN 0-86315-309-7$26.00

The Most Holy Trinosophia And The New Revelation of the Divine FeminineRobert Powell

The rising interest in goddess spirituality expresses our current need to understand the feminine side of God, the Sophia (or Divine Wisdom). Offering a new perspective, the author draws on his own research and on the teaching of Rus-sian philosopher Pavel Florensky, according to whom Sophia has a relationship to the masculine Trinity as an independent spiritual being. Robert Powell discusses Sophia as a Trinity—as Mother, Daughter, and Holy Soul— and as the feminine aspect of Divine Godhead. He connects our reawakening to the feminine aspect of God with many of the changes now taking place in the world. Also included is an introduction to the Divine Feminine by Daniel Andreev, author of The Rose of the World.


The Healing ProcessSpirit, Nature & Our Bodies

Rudolf Steiner11 talks in various cities, GA 319 ; Introduced by Richard Leviton

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These broadly ranging talks outline the contrasts between conventional medicine, based on natural science, and anthroposophical medicine, which extends diagnosis and healing to include our soul and spirit.

Rudolf Steiner emphasizes the need to understand three superimposed systems: the sensory nervous system; the rhythmic (respiratory and circulatory) system; and the metabolic and limb system. He describes the relationship between “natural” and “disease” processes, as well as the true nature of the human nervous system. He also shows that the heart is not a “pump” and that its motion is the consequence rather than the cause of human rhythms.

Other topics include hay fever, migraine, sclerosis, cancer, tuberculosis, childhood diseases, and the use of mineral, plant, and artistic therapies.

Anthroposophic Press288 Pages, paperbackISBN 0-88010-474-0$19.95

AutismA Holistic Approach

Bob Woodward and Dr. Marga Hogenboom

Autistic children present a difficult, and often disappointing, task for educators and care providers. Dealing with autism is generally assumed to be beyond the scope of most people. This well-researched and moving book challenges this assumption. Using their own extensive, practical experiences, as well as the findings of others in the field, the authors describe the successes of a holitic approach.

With an extended program of physical, sensory, social, and play therapies, the autistic child can begin a path of self-discovery and self-recognition, leading to the beginning of social skills. This is essential reading for everyone involved in the care and education of autistic children.

Floris Books288 pages, paperbackISBN 0-86315-311-9$35.00

Complete HealingRegaining Your Health through Anthroposophical Medicine

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Michael Evans, m.d. & Iain Rodger

Previously titled Anthroposophical Medicine: Healing for Body, Soul and Spirit

A lively introduction to anthroposophical medicine, which adds the dimension of spiritual science to conventional, allopathic medicine to provide therapies for the whole human being. The resulting therapeutic opportunities offer the possibility of success when conventional treatment can only suppress symptoms. This broader range of therapies dramatically reduces the need for conventional pharmaceutical drugs. Medicine based on the principles Rudolf Steiner outlined have been used worldwide for seventy-five years.

Dr. Michael Evans is a general practitioner in England and offers anthroposophical health care. Iain Rodger is a BBC producer and freelance writer.


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Jesus, the Master BuilderDruid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity

Gordon Strachan

There has been much speculation about Jesus’ activities before the start of his ministry at the age of thirty. Certain legends suggest that Jesus traveled to the British Isles with Joseph of Arimathea, a tin trader. Beginning with these legends, the author uncovers fascinating interconnections between the Celtic and Mediterranean cultures and philosophies.

Taking the biblical image of “wisdom as master craftsman,” he explores the deep layers of Mystery knowledge shared by the world of Jews and Greeks and that of the northern Druids —using the secret geometry of masons and builders, as well as the biblical Gematria, or numeric encryption.


Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting TherapyLiane Collot d’Herbois

Color comes into being through the interaction of light and darkness. In the human being, the light of consciousness and the darkness of substance meet and interact, and between these opposites exists the multicolored world of the soul. Art therapy helps bring balance and health to people

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through working to understand the relationship between the opposing tendencies of light and darkness, both in art and in the human constitution.

The author worked many years with Dr. Ita Wegman to develop this approach to painting therapy.


The Rhythm of the Christian YearRenewing theReligious Cycle of Festivals

Emil Bock

Emil Bock explores ways to deepen our understanding of the Christian festivals. Most important, if actively renewed, the festivals can bring a new understanding of the Christian mystery manifesting today—the appearance of Christ in the etheric realm. The festivals can also heighten our awareness of the Earth as a living organism and provide new energy for human society. Nature is awaiting redemption through our work, and the meditations in this book help us wake up to this spiritual responsibility.

Floris Books240 pages, hardcoverISBN: 0-86315-308-9$26.00

Practising DestinyPrinciples and Processes in Adult Learning

Coenraad van Houten

Increasingly, people are realizing that education must continue throughout life. We face the choice of remaining as we are or developing ourselves. Through his extensive experience of leading seminars and training, the author developed three paths for adult learning: “vocational learning,” “destiny learning,” and “spiritual research learning.” He describes the sevenfold path of destiny learning that leads through group-work to karmic knowledge. He also describes the seven professional fields of the adult educator as an aid to self-education.

Coenraad van Houten co-founded the Centre for Social Development in England.

Temple Lodge240 pages, paperbackISBN 1-902636-21-X$19.95

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Helping Children to Overcome FearThe Healing Power of Play

Russell Evans

The insights of Jean Evans, a play leader, have become core principles for preschools, play therapy, childcare, and pediatrics. These include child development through play and imitation; captivating children’s interest; encouragement as a basis for healing; guidelines for helping children feel safe and happy; and helping dying children and caring parents. Illustrated.

“This inspirational book should become mandatory reading for pediatricians and play therapists — indeed any adult who is serious in their desire to be alongside a child needing to face their fear.”

— Julie Stokes, psychologist and founder of Winston’s Wish, a grief support program for children

Hawthorn Press128 pages, paperbackISBN 1-903458-02-1$16.95

Storytelling with ChildrenNancy Mellon

Storytelling awakens wonder and creates special occasions for children, whether at bedtime, around the fire, or on rainy days. Nancy Mellon encourages you to spin golden tales and shows you how to become a confident storyteller. She explains how to create a listening space; use the day’s events and rhythms to make stories; transform old tales and make up new ones; bring life to your personal and family stories; memorize stories through images; and use inner theatre, walkabout, and singing. You can also find a tale in her rich treasure of stories.

Nancy Mellon is a storyteller and runs the School for Therapeutic Storytelling in New Hampshire.

Hawthorn Press 192 pages, paperbackISBN 1-903458-08-0$14.95

The Child and the MachineHow Computers Put Our Children’s Education at Risk

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Alison Armstrong & Charles Casement

Do computers really help our children learn to read, write, or think? What do we lose when we strip funding from art, music, and physical education programs to help pay for ballooning technology budgets in our nation’s schools?

Drawing from hundreds of school visits, studies, and expert interviews, this groundbreaking examination will dramatically change the way we think about the role of computers in our children’s lives and education.

Chapters include Educational Technology and Illusions of Progress, The Young Reader and the Screen, Physical Effects of Computer Use, The Art of Intelligence, The Real World of Learning, Finding Technology’s Place, and more.

Robins Lane Press256 pages, paperbackISBN 0-87659-210-8$16.00

The Enchanted KingdomGuido Visconti; illustrated by Maria Battaglia

A merchant arrives in a sun-scorched kingdom that has lost all its trees to become a desert. One of the king’s tapestries delights his young daughter. She loves its trees, flowers, and birds, and sets out to find a painter who will paint birds for her. As the painter and the child work together, their pictures come to life and eventually fill the kingdom with the songs of birds and the colors of flowers. This story and beautiful illustrations will delight your child’s imagination. (Ages 5-7)

Maria Battaglia was chosen twice to exhibit her work at the Bologna Book Fair and won the Catalonian International Prize for Illustration in 1992.

Floris Books30 pages, clothISBN 0-86315-333-X$14.95

Crafts through the YearThomas and Petra Berger

Simply made decorations for home or school are an absorbing way for children to become involved in celebrating the yearly festivals. The authors show how to make almost 200 different things: decorated Easter eggs and candles, corn dolls, straw horses, and Christmas transparencies to brighten winter windows. This is a completely revised compilation of the authors’ very successful Christmas Craft Book, Easter Craft Book, and Harvest Craft Book.

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Thomas Berger studied graphics for printing and publishing in Holland. He and his wife Petra have tried to find creative ways to celebrate the festivals and seasons of the year with their own children. Their books have sold over 170,000 copies in six languages.


A Child is BornJindra Capek

A shepherd boy follows the three kings on their journey to Bethlehem. On his way, he gathers the simple gifts of poor people for the newborn child. Here is a beautifully illustrated Christmas legend, retold for young readers.

Jindra Capek also illustrated The Firebird and The Star Child, also available from Anthroposophic Press.


North FlameA Magical Fable for All Ages

Rufus Goodwin

Illustrated by Lisa Schofield

This is the story of Betmar, the Little Princess from Big City, who ventures into the deep North counseled by the Raven, the Great Rabbit, the Elephant, and the Deep Mystery Seal. A classic fairy tale that draws on the age-old power of traditional and natural images, but with a light, modern touch, this is a tale that nurtures from within. Twelve full-color illustrations.

Rufus Goodwin went to Yale and Georgetown universities. He has been a United Press International correspondent to the Vatican, author, freelance journalist, poet, and novelist.

Educare Press60 pages, clothISBN 0-944638-16-3$14.95

The Valley of MistWritten & illustrated by Arcadio Lobato

In a distant country there is a deep valley always covered in mist. The people there have never seen the Sun; they believe their elders, who tell them that nothing exists beyond their valley. But,

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Stefan’s grandfather tells him of a sunlit world on the other side of the mountain. This story tells of the young boy’s journey to find that world.


Favourite Grimm’s TalesIllustrated by Anastasiya Archipova

More 150 years ago, the Grimm brothers published their famous collection of folk tales. This collection includes “Little Red Riding Hood,” “The Frog Prince,” “ Sleeping Beauty,” “Snow White,” “Cinderella,” and many more favorites.

Anastasiya Archipova is a freelance illustrator living in Moscow.


Magic WoolCreative Activities with Natural Sheep’s Wool

Dagmar Schmidt & Freya Jaffke

Activities with colorful, unspun sheep’s wool offer a wide range of creative possibilities that will stimulate the creative imaginations of children and adults alike.


A Royal Ring of GoldStories from the Life of Mungo

Eileen Dunlop

St. Mungo has long been one of Scotland’s favorite saints. His mother was a young princess cast adrift by her father. She and her newborn child were rescued by a monk who affectionately called him Mungo, meaning “dear one” or “little dog.” When he died in a.d. 612, Mungo was bishop of Glasgow, much loved for his holiness and wisdom, and his tomb quickly became known as a place of miracles and healing.

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Floris Books 144 pages, paperback ISBN 0-86315-292-9 $9.95

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Encounters with AngelsDan Lindholm

Many people have experienced moments in life when they have felt an invisible hand guiding their destiny, and there are also many recorded instances of dreams or visions of angels. The author has gathered the most compelling accounts of these remarkable encounters from sources in various countries.

Floris Books80 pages, clothISBN 0-86315-137-x$11.95

Mani, the Angel and the Column of GloryAn Anthology of Manichean Texts

Collected & presented by Andrew Welburn

Manicheism rivaled Christianity and Buddhism as a major world religion for over a thousand years. In the Middle Ages, the Manichean scriptures were destroyed or lost, and its esoteric teaching corrupted and misunderstood. Twentieth-century archaeology has restored a number of books of these ancient texts. This book gathers some of those treasures with a commentary by Andrew Welburn on the relationship between the “religion of light” and Christianity.


Great InitiatesA Study of the Secret History of Religions

Edouard Schuré

This book describes the motivations behind visible history and indicates the deeper importance of those events for today. It reflects lives of extraordinary stature: Rama, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and Jesus. We witness spiritual adventures of rare depth and intensity experienced even in the most exalted moments. This excitement of discovery may well explain its continued popularity for over a century.

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Garber Communications480 pages, paperbackISBN 0-89345-228-9$24.95

Carmina GadelicaHymns and Incantations from the Gaelic

Collected by Alexander Carmichael Presented by John MacInnes

This is the most complete anthology of Celtic oral tradition ever assembled. During his travels, Alexander Carmichael spent hours with peasants in their huts in front of peat fires listening as they “intoned in a low, recitative manner” these poems and prayers. This unique collection of living spirituality drawn from the depths of Celtic Christianity, represents a hidden oral tradition of great power and beauty, handed down through countless generations of Hebridean peasants.


The Quest of Three AbbotsThe Golden Age of Celtic Christianity

Brendan Lehane

This account of early Celtic Christianity provides a history of the Celtic church. Focusing on the biographies of Saints Brendan, Columba, and Columbanus, the author tells their stories against the background of European history. These celebrated “wanderers for Christ” followed their destinies in different, but far-reaching, ways. As we read their stories, we come to understand the power and fascination of the Celtic Christian spirit. This absorbing account will connect the reader to deep sources of inspiration.

Lindisfarne Books256 pages, paperbackISBN 0-940262-65-7 $16.95

Sun and CrossFrom Megalithic Culture to Early Christianity in Ireland

Jakob Streit

This fully illustrated book traces the unbroken spiritual culture in Ireland from the time of the sunoriented stones circles and dolmens, through the Celtic era, into the period of the early Christian stone crosses. Illustrated throughout with photographs, line drawings, maps, and diagrams.

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Power of Raven, Wisdom of SerpentCeltic Women’s Spirituality

Noragh Jones

The customs and spiritu-ality of the traditional communities of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland were handed down for centuries through oral culture. Their way of life preserved a spirituality and reverence for nature that has been lost to those in modern urban environments. Noragh Jones describes the vital roles of women in those communities, with their powers of “seeing,” healing, blessing, and cursing. Their hospitality, conviviality, and deep wisdom along with their celebration of daily life can teach us much today.


Genetics and the Manipulation of LifeThe Forgotten Factor of Context

Craig Holdrege

Here is a provocative work that challenges our common assumptions about nature and science. Clearly written, well-illustrated, and without unnecessary technical jargon, Craig Holdrege describes how living organisms develop and exist within the context of their environment, and how the effects of genes are always qualified by the contexts of the organism. He shows how scientific theory and practice inevitably fuse to produce the systems that will create our future, and he questions our understanding of the organisms we manipulate through genetic engineering and the consequences of such manipulation.


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From Isles of DreamVisionary Stories from the Celtic Renaissance

Edited by John MatthewsForeword by Robin Williamson

A marvelous anthology of stories and poems by writers of the early twentieth-century Celtic Renaissance. John Matthews’ selection of powerful, visionary tales is a feast of fantasy and imagination. Authors include W. B. Yeats, George Russell, Fiona Macleod, James Stephens, John Cowper Powys, James Branch Cabel, George Macdonald, Ella Young, Lord Dunsany, and Henry Treece.


The Christmas ConferenceFor the Foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society, 1923/1924

Rudolf SteinerForeword and conclusion by Marie Steiner

This elegeant cloth edition documents the most significant moment in the history of the anthroposophical movement: the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society in the carpentry shop overlooking the charred ruins of the first Goetheanum. Here is the complete proceedings of the Foundation Meeting, as well as Steiner’s description of the structure and organization of the new society.

Anthroposophic Press324 pages, hardbackISBN 0-88010-193-8$29.95

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