Language-Art cards
Over the last four years more than 300 language-art cards have been created at Marie Steiner Press, mostly in German but some also in English.
The language-art cards bring the interplay of science, art and spiritual worlds to life in a new way and direct us to the sources of speech. Speech is something we need to take hold of and practise. Selected text extracts by Rudolf and Marie Steiner remind us of the formative power that lies in imagination and in words, and therefore of our esoteric, universally human future.
Some of the cards are concerned with the (sometimes arousing) power of poems that are in danger of fading away, for instance the cards ‹Christian Morgenstern!›, ‹The Cathedral›, ‹Proteus› and ‹A Dream›; others illustrate the inner power of colours and light, or reflect conversations with the dead.
The Christmas cards are exquisite in terms of motifs and depths of content, for instance «Christmas. An esoteric contemplation». «For the sublime power that seeks to enter [our time] can only be served when people develop creativity within their soul,» Rudolf Steiner said on 24 December 1917 (GA 180).
With all the diversity and wealth of inspired artistic creations by Christa Slezak-Schindler and Otto Philipp Sponsel-Slezak, one motif shines out in particular: that of striving to become wordsmiths of our existence and in doing so accelerate the «activation of the powers of (self-)healing and (self-)education in a refreshingly beautiful manner.» The fire in the publishing-forge is burning bright. Some English cards are also available.