Quick Look
- A detailed commentary on Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul which shares the wisdom of the verses across the course of the year
- Features 52 full-colour artistic sketches, offering a fresh way to experience each step on the meditative path
- Volumes 6 and 7 in the Karl König archive are brought together into one complete book for the first time
A complete edition of The Calendar of the Soul and An Inner Journey Through the Year, combining Karl König's inspiring commentary and full-colour drawings. Volumes 6 and 7 in the Karl König Archive.
Description
A combined edition of Karl König's The Calendar of the Soul and An Inner Journey Through the Year.
Karl König meditated intensely on the 52 weekly verses of Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. He often encouraged his colleagues to find inner strength from the verses, and wrote The Calendar of the Soul, which forms part one of this new combined volume, as a guide for them, drawing out the patterns through the course of the year. There are also some lecture notes and additional essays covering the Winter and Christmas Verses, Forgetting and Losing, and more.
Part two comprises 52 naïve, full-colour artistic sketches that König created in 1940 to accompany each verse during his internment on the Isle of Man. For each weekly verse of the Soul Calendar, there's a picture which describes an experience of the inner situation.
This book will be a helpful and inspiring guide for anyone who wants to fully understand and experience Steiner's Calendar.
Table of Contents
Editor's Remarks
Introduction Richard Steel
Karl König's Work with the Calendar of the Soul in Camphill Christof-Andreas Lindenberg
Four Addresses on the Calendar of the Soul:
Advent Address
Whitsun Address
Eve of St John's Day Address
Impressions of South Africa
A Guide to the Anthroposophical Calendar of the Soul
The Metamorphosis of the Cross
Essays on the Calendar of the Soul:
The Word 'Boding' (Ahnung)
The Winter and Christmas Verses
The Words 'Heights' and 'Depths'
The Sense of Self
Heaven's own Fruit of Hope
Forgetting and Losing: Seeking, Finding and Gaining
An Inner Journey Through the Year:
Soul Images and Soul Calendar Richard Steel
Life with the Images of the Calendar of the Soul Christof-Andreas Lindenberg
Karl König's Drawings for the 52 Verses
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Verses
Index
Reviews
'The richness presented here can enhance our lives so that through daily encounters with nature and contemplation of our soul life, existence will gain a creative signature.'
-- Anna Phillips, Perspectives
Author
Karl König (1902-66) was well-known as a physician, author and lecturer. He began his work at the Institute of Embryology at the University of Vienna. In 1940 he founded the Camphill Movement in Scotland. Based on Rudolf Steiner's insights into human development, the special education schools for children and villages for adults with special needs are now established in many parts of the world.
