Mantric Sayings: Meditations; From the collected works of Rudolf Steiner

Description: Mantric Sayings: Meditations; from the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner; Translated from the German by Dana L. Fleming and Christopher Bamford: Introduction by Christopher Bamford: Published in 2015 by SteinerBooks, Massachusetts: 400 pages: ISBN # 9 780880 106306. Transform yourself for the sake of the world. Learn to practice thinking, feeling, sensing, and willing without egotism. Let your work be the shadow that your I casts when it is shone upon by the flame of your higher self. By "mantric sayings," Rudolf Steiner means content given by the spiritual world to be absorbed and experienced in meditation. Thus the volume contains intuitive insights received "from the spiritual world" and, as such, the vehicle to return us to it. The meditations were often given personally to others for general use, as well as for specific situations or needs such as healing and strengthening, in relation to those who had died, or for anthroposophic work. In other words, these short texts are to be performed--to be experienced. In this sense, they are directive--enjoining us to "Do this!"--and affirmative-positive, filled with hope, and oriented toward the other and the future. Mantric Sayings includes translations of scriptural passages and ancient versions of the Lord's Prayer that were part of Steiner's own meditative practice, as well as the 1913 lecture, "The Foundation Stone Address," for this, too, contains gifts of the spirit. Also included is Steiner's important "Macrocosmic [or Reverse] Lord's Prayer." Since meditation lies at the very heart of anthroposophy as Rudolf Steiner wished to see it practiced, there are many collections of Steiner's meditation texts. What makes Mantric Sayings unique, however, is its range, extending from July 1903 to March 1925- virtually the entirety of Rudolf Steiner's life as a spiritual teacher- and its personal quality; it is very clear that many of these meditations, whether given to others or simply written in his notebooks or on loose note sheets, were meditations that Rudolf Steiner himself not only received, but also worked with himself in meditation. In this sense, these meditations present a kind of intimate soul-portrait; they are what he did, and then subsequently gave to others with, as one might imagine, great love and deep knowledge of the recipients.

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