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A year after the burning of the first Goetheanum, during the eight days of the Christmas Conference 1923/24, Rudolf Steiner, together with the 800 people present, laid the Foundation Stone ""in our hearts"" as a meditation. Every day at ten o'clock in the morning, and on the last day also in the evening--nine times in total--he spoke the verses, invoking the angelic hierarchies, allowing their voices to sound for us in the spirit. The Foundation Stone is thus a purely spiritual text, not intended as information, but as meditation. The all-encompassing relationships of the cosmic ordering of the spiritual world, described by Rudolf Steiner in his written works and lectures, are united in seed form in the Foundation Stone Meditation. In this book, some sixty meditative passages about the role of the angelic hierarchies in cosmic and human evolution have been selected from Rudolf Steiner's works, with the aim of shedding new light on the words of the Foundation Stone. Here the cosmic speech of the hierarchies resounds as the primal source of anthroposophy, revealing their dynamic, radiant, ever-renewing creative work with humanity and the Earth. This book is intended for all who seek a deeper relationship to the Foundation Stone Meditation as a path of awakening.

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Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe's scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner's multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.

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