This course will explore through discussion, image, story, and meditation what happens if one takes the three Abraham revelations—Jewish, Christian,
and Muslim—not as negating one another but as complementary aspects of a single mystery in which each amplifies the others. In other words: a single humanity, a single revelation, a single conversation in (at least) three voices.

This path is not new. In a twelfth-century illuminated Bible in the Abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges, France, the initial “A” of Adam at the head of the list of the Patriarchs in the Book of Chronicles is filled not with the image of Adam, but with that of Abraham, who is shown cradling in his lap the three communities (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim) who descend from him, thus indicating (as it is said) “that the promises to Abraham are for the sake of all the children of Adam.”

Understood in this light, the one path—the mystical heart of Abraham—is to be found in-between: a common path of freedom, sacrifice, service, forgiveness, compassion, mercy, receptivity, and love.

Following this path—from creation through the flood and the building of the Tower of Babel, the teachings of Wisdom and the Mystery of Golgotha, and into the early Christian centuries, Mohammed’s reception of the Qu’ran, and beyond—a new vision of the evolution of consciousness and our present human task begins to emerge: one that allows us to see Anthroposophy in a new light, as well as transform our relationship to nature, to one another, and all human beings.

As we begin to think, feel, and live our way into this new perspective, our understanding of many things will begin to change: we will begin
to see the world and ourselves in a new way and our understanding
of the meaning of religion, as well as art and science, will begin to be transformed.

Eurythmy with Cezary Ciaglo.

CHRIS BAMFORD, as editor-in-chief of Steinerbooks, has introduced, edited, and translated numerous volumes by Rudolf Steiner. He is also a respected authority on Western esotericism, the author of two books, and a lecturer. Two of his essays have been recognized in Best Spiritual Writing.