The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

We present here a paraphrased summary of two lectures by Dr. Rudolf Steiner about Goethe’s Fairy Tale. Steiner has gone beyond Carlyle’s recommendation and attempted an interpretation of the symbols and characters brought forward from Goethe’s imagination. Steiner was the editor of Goethe’s scientific work and thus has an unparalleled understanding of the inner thoughts of Goethe. We can find through Steiner’s decoding of Goethe’s symbols, the flavor of Rosicrucian-Alchemical ideas for which Steiner himself was well known through his philosophy of Anthroposophy.

Spirit of Childhood

Waldorf teacher-trainer and master teacher, Douglas Gabriel introduces teachers and parents to Rudolf Steiner’s Waldorf School curriculum in an all-encompassing curriculum book that can be used for the first grade and beyond. Spirit of Childhood presents an overview of the curriculum from different disciplines such as history, mythology, child development, and religion. Download your free copy here.

Finding the Blessed Isle: A Fairy Tale of the North

In the north, there is an island that looks desolate and barren to the uninitiated eye but is, in fact, home of the Master of the Threshold who guards a holy river where the narwhals go to take their last breath and die on the land they have always longed for, later, to be swept back into the sea at the river’s mouth to their final resting place. There, at the place where fresh water and saltwater meet, where land and sea create the shore; there, between land and water, the northern lights and the ocean’s dark depths are where myth and reality meet.