In this article, which appeared in the Society's magazine Sphere, Ernst Katz asks what was Rudolf Steiner's mission and proceeds to outline his researches into what he describes as Rudolf Steiner's esoteric mission. In this essay I want to give a personal description, not very scholarly, of the mission of Rudolf Steiner. What was this mission?

Anthroposophical medicine is an extension of orthodox medical practice and is based on a comprehensive view of the human being provided by anthroposophical spiritual science. This view, as it applies to medicine, is encompassing and very detailed, so that no more than a few brush strokes will be painted here to suggest something of its nature.

The three 2009 published issues of Sphere, the quarterly journal of the Anthroposophical Society in New Zealand, are now available as a download on this website:

Years spent at university can be challenging. One is confronted with the crowning achievements of a Mephistophelian society with libraries bursting forth a vast array of publications and findings. One endlessly memorises and regurgitates facts and points of view. This process, which occurs over years, can leave one feeling entirely exhausted and parched.