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Healing Madonnas: Exploring the Sequence of Madonna Images Created by Rudolf Steiner and Felix Peipers for Use in Therapy and Meditation
Contributor(s): Bamford, Christopher (Author)
ISBN: 1584209895     ISBN-13: 9781584209898
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
OUR PRICE:   $16.16  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Ancient Mysteries & Controversial Knowledge
- Religion | Spirituality
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 9.2" (0.80 lbs) 160 pages
Themes:
- Topical - New Age
 
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Publisher Description:

This book presents and explores a little-known example of Rudolf Steiner's efforts to bring, in a practical way, a contemporary embodiment of the wisdom that once lived in the ancient mysteries. In this instance, a sequence of fifteen images of the Madonna, intended originally for contemplation under supervision in a clinical setting as a new form of therapy for those suffering soul wounds.

In a 1908 lecture, Steiner addressed the subterranean spiritual links connecting ancient Egypt and our own time and described certain healing functions of the Isis Mysteries. He connected the Madonna Mary, in a sense, as the evolutionary metamorphosis of Isis, focusing on Raphael's visionary image of her in the Sistine Madonna.

The sequence consists of fifteen images (predominantly by Raphael) and a sculpture. The first half begins and ends with the Sistine Madonna, which frames it. The second half is similarly framed, but by two details from The Transfiguration. One first establishes a meditative soul mood and then slowly contemplates the sequence of images.

Among the numerous topics discussed are divine feminine Wisdom, the Holy Mother, the origin of the Madonna sequence, the etheric body and the sequence, and Rudolf Steiner's healing mission.

C O N T E N T S:

Guiding Thoughts
Preface

1. By Way of Introduction
2. Approaching the Images, or the Mystery of Seeing
3. Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
4. Sacred-Religious or Secular-Spiritual
5. Enter the Sistine Madonna
6. Devotion and Reverence
7. Sophia: Wisdom Becomes Love
8. The Presence of the Holy Mother
9. The Ancient Mysteries
10. Isis and Madonna
11. The Origins of the Madonna Sequence
12. A Short Prehistory of the Pentagram
13. The Images, Etheric Body, and Organization Underlying the Sequence

The Healing Images
Sistine Madonna
Beautiful Gardener
Alba Madonna
Alba Madonna (detail)
Pazzi Madonna
Madonna of the Goldfinch (detail)
Bridgewater Madonna
Sistine Madonna (detail)
Tempi Madonna
Transfiguration (detail)
Granduca Madonna
Madonna of the Fish
Bruges Madonna
Madonna of the Goldfinch
Transfiguration (detail)

14. Working with the Images
15. A Note on the Sistine Madonna
16. A Shorter Note on the Transfiguration
17. The Healing Mission of Rudolf Steiner
18. Appendix: A Further Perspective: Reinhold Johann Faeth: The Madonna Pentagram

Bibliography and Further Reading

Contributor Bio(s): Bamford, Christopher: - Christopher Bamford is Editor in Chief for SteinerBooks and its imprints. A Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, he has lectured, taught, and written widely on Western spiritual and esoteric traditions. He is the author of The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity (1990) and An Endless Trace: The Passionate Pursuit of Wisdom in the West(2003). He has also translated and edited numerous books, including Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness (1982);Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science; and The Noble Traveller: The Life and Writings of O. V. de L. Milosz (all published by Lindisfarne Books).