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Healing Madonnas : exploring the sequence of Madonna images created by Rudolf Steiner and Felix Peipers for therapy and meditation : questions, origins, history, and context /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bamford, Christopher, 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Great Barrington, Massachusetts : Lindisfarne Books, [2017]
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art.
Table of Contents:
  • By way of introduction
  • Approaching the images, or the mystery of seeing
  • Truth, beauty, and goodness
  • Sacred-religious or secular-spiritual
  • Enter the Sistine Madonna
  • Devotion and reverence
  • Sophia: wisdom becomes love
  • The presence of the Holy Mother
  • The ancient mysteries
  • Isis and Madonna
  • The origins of the Madonna sequence
  • A short prehistory of the pentagram
  • The images, etheric body, and organization underlying the sequence
  • The healing Madonna images
  • Working with the images
  • A note on the Sistine Madonna
  • A shorter note on the Transfiguration
  • The healing mission of Rudolf Steiner.