What Rudolf Steiner said about the passage of Mars through Earth and the origin of iron

Goethe and Granite

Goethe’s deep and lifelong interest in granite is well known.  This essay explores his investigations into the secrets of its enigmatic nature, his belief that it precipitated from a primal ocean in which fire and water peacefully coexisted, and that […]

Book review: Rainbows, Halos, Dawn and Dusk

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Four Pieces on Granite

Here you will find Goethe’s well-known essay on granite, plus three shorter pieces he wrote between January 1784 and August 1785.

Earth’s Third Movement, a Copernican Enigma

The three planetary movements of the Earth as first described by Copernicus are her daily axial rotation, her annual revolution around the Sun, and her equinoctial precession during a Platonic year. This essay explores Steiner’s belief that modern astronomers were […]

The Ice Age, Precession, and the Year 1250

This essay takes a look at an important astronomical event in 1250, how it is related to the most recent (and a future) Ice Age, and the astronomical background to Steiner’s interpretation of the event.

The Great Conjunction on the Winter Solstice 2020

This astronomical event, repeating rhythmically every 20 years, is one of the most prominently visible in the night sky, and received a lot of attention in 2020 from the public as well as from professionals. The present article emerged from […]

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