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Mani & Service

Selected and Introduced by Robert Sardello

Classics from the Journal for Anthroposophy

Spring 2008 / Number 78

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This is the fourth special issue in the “Classics Series” of the Journal for Anthroposophy which have included articles from regular issues of the Journal for Anthroposophy published since 1965. Robert McDermott is the Series Editor.

The active work done by dedicated people engaged with anthroposophy in America is really astounding. Besides the more well-known endeavors of Waldorf education, medicine, agriculture, and the arts, people are devotedly working with the homeless, doing research with water, implementing composting procedures for large companies, establishing sanctuaries and ongoing research with bees, working with gangs, the elderly, adult education, establishing new forms of banking, re-visioning philanthropy, and publishing. There are two colleges, innumerable reading groups throughout the country, work with the new form of relating with the stars — astrosophy, biography work, eurythmy performance groups, speech training, therapeutic eurythmy, therapeutic music, architecture, Anthroposophical medicines, biodynamic wineries, work with people with special needs, caring for the dying, and many, many other endeavors.

While the indications for ways of doing such service out of a new, practical spiritual science come from the overwhelming gifts of Rudolf Steiner, there is continual need for inner development on the part of the practitioners. None of the work is in the realm of technological innovation; all of it requires presence to one’s soul life as the medium through which others can be served in truly creative and spiritual ways.

Rudolf Steiner was deeply aware, even inwardly present to the actuality of the spiritual tradition inspiring the act of serving. The individual known as Mani and the spiritual streams flowing from Mani—the Cathars, the Templars, and others—held the special task of spiritualizing serving itself. Spiritualizing serving means that the spiritual worlds become the conscious wholeness out of which being able to be of help to others occurs. Without the capacities to know what this wholeness is like and how to develop it, all of the activities of service can fall into mere functionality.

This series of articles previously published in the Journal for Anthroposophy give a beginning picture of the spiritual stream of Mani that Rudolf Steiner held with such great respect. Besides entering into the Mani cosmology and practices, now long forgotten, but holding seeds for the future, the kind of inner capacities inspired by this stream that have to do with serving others, caring for the wounded soul, being able to help others while completely releasing the need for a sense of personal power in doing so, and working through the heart, are all presented here, together, for the first time.

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CONTENTS

CLASSIC EDITIONS

Ten very special issues comprised of outstanding Classic articles from previous editions dating back to the 1960's..

RENOWNED EDITORS

Respected leaders in their fields, offer their very best insights on the subject.

Joan Almon, The Alliance for Childhood, Editor Classic #1 “Meeting Rudolf Steiner”
Kate Farrell, Author Art and Poetry, Editor Classic #2 “Anthroposophy & Imagination”
Douglas Sloan, Author Insight-Imagination, Editor Classic #3 “Revisioning Society & Culture”
Robert Sardello, Author Love and the World, Editor Classic #4 “Mani & Service”
Robert Hill, Corporate Change Consultant, Editor Classic #5 “Meeting Anthroposophy”
Donald Melcer, Editor Classic #6 Novalis

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