Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Edmunds Francis
Title : An introduction to Anthroposophy Rudolf Steiner’s World View
Year : 1982

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Foreword. It is not easy to find a compact but comprehensive introduction to the life and work of Rudolf Steiner. Many of his works are still untranslated or are out of print. And while there is now an extensive secondary literature in German, there is less in English. This may be partly because those who have encountered Steiner’s work in the English-speaking world have been fired to undertake all kinds of activities which have left them little time to write. In recent years, Waldorf schools (which derive from the new school pioneered with Steiner’s help in Stuttgart in 1919) have been founded all over the world, as have new homes and communities for children and adults with special needs. The new work in medicine, agriculture, architecture, the arts, and even banking, which has developed strongly in continental Europe, is also beginning to be better known in England, the United States and many other parts of the world. The prophetic quality of Steiner’s thought, and the creative potential in the path he called anthroposophy, are becoming ever more apparent in our times. So a work of this kind, which is both a survey of Steiner’s extraordinary achievement and a personal testimony, is of great value. It comes from a man whose life was fired and guided by Steiner’s work, and who played a major part in bringing his impulses for education to life. From his youth, Francis Edmunds lived as a practical idealist. As a medical student, a relief worker in Russia, then as a teacher, he saw with passion and compassion that the ills of the world are rooted in a crippled understanding of human nature. The scientific age tries to persuade us that we are fundamentally machines or animals, and so it is blind to the possibility that we may also be angels-in-the-making. Life shapes itself accordingly. ...