{"product_id":"our-dead-memorial-funeral-and-cremation-addresses-1906-1924-cw-261-9780880106504","title":"Our Dead: Memorial, Funeral, and Cremation Addresses 1906-1924 (Cw 261)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMemorial, funeral, and cremation addresses, 1906-1924\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2 lectures, Kassel, Germany May 9 and 10, 1914 (CW 261)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur Dead\u003c\/i\u003e collects Steiner's memorial, funeral, and cremation addresses, as well as a sampling of prayers and meditations for the dead. The context, intimate and sober with grief, means that his intent is quite other than if he had been speaking in a lecture hall. His primary concerns--while based on spiritual-scientific research and, in some cases, the actual living expression of it in real time--are ethical and existential and, at the same time, ceremonial and communal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner stands as speaker before and for the living--relations, friends, and community members--and for the one who has died, even, in a way, for the greater \"cloud\" of all the dead. With his feet planted firmly on the Earth, Steiner moves seamlessly between the sensory-physical, embodied world and the invisible, suprasensory, discarnate one. Speaking in an intimate, personal manner to both worlds, he unites the living and the dead with words that are both practical and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe meet Rudolf Steiner in this book in a different way. Here, the substance of what he communicates is less \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e he says than \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e he says it; he emphasizes, above all, the tenderness and compassion with which he unites with both the souls of the departed in the spiritual world and those grieving on Earth. Through his words, Heaven and Earth, the spiritual and earthly worlds, are brought closer together. Through his example, embodied in his words filled with feeling, a bridge is revealed on which we, too, may cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShining through this book is Rudolf Steiner's love for humanity--how he loved his students and those with whom he worked, seeing the best in them as he lovingly crafted their biographies; how behind all of this stands his love for every human being and the whole of humanity as a single being; how, indeed, his interest in and care for each human being as a unique individual--in this case, members of the Anthroposophical Society--seems boundless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose who love Rudolf Steiner, as well as those who are simply interested in him; those who seek comfort and guidance when grieving loved ones who have died; those who seek ways of entering a real relationship with the dead, who wish to understand how the dead might influence our lives--these will find in this volume irreplaceable substance for meditation, thought, and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a translation from the German of \u003cem\u003e Unsere Toten. Ansprachen, Gedenkworte und Meditationssprüche 1906-1924 \u003c\/em\u003e (GA 261).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steiner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780880106504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084128420021,"sku":"9780880106504","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fd853df1-b4a4-4a40-86c5-8654305457eb.jpg?v=1692111015","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/our-dead-memorial-funeral-and-cremation-addresses-1906-1924-cw-261-9780880106504","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}