Guardian Angels: Connecting with Our Spiritual Guides and Helpers

6 selected lectures in various cities

Traditional folklore depicts guardian angels as beings who guide and protect us. However, although there are numerous stories of the miraculous intervention of these beings, many people continue to dismiss guardian angels as myth, superstition, or allegorical.

Based on his personal experience and cognition, Rudolf Steiner speaks of guardian angels and other spiritual beings as real entities. Their existence, he tells us, is a spiritual and scientific fact that can be researched and studied through clairvoyance. One of his aims was to enable people to reconnect with these spiritual beings, not only for their own benefit, but also for the benefit of the other kingdom of nature and the destiny of the earth's evolution as a whole.

In writings and lectures, Steiner intended to lead people from belief to recognition, knowledge, and real understanding of spiritual beings. In these six selected lectures―previously hidden away in early publications or journals―he describes the role of the guardian angel and our relationship to the heavenly hierarchies of spiritual beings as a whole, as well as how they shape our human form as a result of their cosmic activity.

People today are increasingly awaking to the angelic guidance in their own daily lives and beginning to seek it consciously. These lectures will help these individuals to understand their experiences and to make their communication with spiritual beings more conscious.

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.