11/01/2025
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See our accomplishments and goals in the post below and on our website.
๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐.๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐.
If you enjoy researching and linking to our site to share the words of Rudolf Steiner, please give generously to support our work. Together, we can help bring anthroposophy to life. We appreciate your support!
https://shop.rsarchive.org/community/give/2025
As the Northern Hemisphere enters the darkness of winter, Steiner Online Library is shedding new light on anthroposophy. We are adding the entirety of Rudolf Steiner's collected works to our website and making it searchable through our custom search engine. In doing so, we have enabled people world-wide to search and synthesize this voluminous record of esoteric wisdom.
With an ambitious goal of raising $25,000, this year's Rudolf Steiner Archive fundraising campaign will help us to continue this work to make Dr. Steiner's teachings more accessible online at no cost to the general public. If you value the ability to search, read, and link to this material online, please consider donating. Through generous financial contributions, we have made significant improvements to our service this past year.
๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ & ๐๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ
๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก. Through our efforts, we have increased the reach of this site this past year by 50%, bringing our average number of unique visitors up from 165,000 per month to over 250,000.
๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. This year, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death, we made nearly all of his documented teachings searchable online in English. We have expanded our holdings by nearly 270%. This is a growth from fewer than 6,000 documents this time last year, to over 16,000. We now offer nearly the entirety of Rudolf Steiner's work in both English and German.
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๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. This tremendous increase in available material includes many works that have never before been available in English. The work will be ongoing, but we think it is important to make the collected works searchable now.
๐๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ฑ๐ญ. Side-by-side comparison of English translations with the original German is now available. Simply click [Show German]. With the German text available, we will soon be able to offer direct translation from German into almost any language.
Custom Search Engine. We will also soon be able to offer comprehensive searches in both English and German. We continue to improve our hand-crafted anthroposophical search engine to offer greatly expanded search capability. For example, by adding synonyms and alternate spellings, we improve its accuracy (e.g., a search for 'Gondishapur' will also find 'Jundรญ Sรกbรบr').
๐๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ค๐๐จ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ. We are in the process of adding Rudolf Steiner's chalkboard drawings to the appropriate lectures. This requires the painstaking process of scanning and manually cropping the images and applying them to the appropriate lectures. No longer will the color versions only be available separately. No longer will one struggle to decipher the black and white hash-marked images with notations of the chalk color used.
๐๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ซ๐๐ซ๐ฒ. We continue to acquire donated anthroposophical books, some of which are added to our growing resource library. We use these materials to answer questions submitted by researchers world-wide and sell duplicates online in our resale bookstore to help fund our work. By accepting these donated books, we ensure these precious materials don't end up in a landfill. Notably, we acquired a large collection of German language books that other anthroposophical libraries and organizations could not accept. To maintain these valuable resources, we have purchased additional bookshelves and leased a climate-controlled storage unit.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ. In addition to all of this work, we have continued with regular social media posts and activity, answering people's questions, and providing resources to the community. Key new content created by us this year includes:
๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. Further honoring the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death, we have made an extensive timeline of Rudolf Steiner's life story with links to thousands of documents from his books, lectures, articles, and correspondence. Nowhere else is Dr. Steiner's legacy so completely chronicled with linked references to tell the story of his life and travels.
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๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ . We expanded our Practice page with links to Rudolf Steinerโs fundamental teachings, exercises, and meditations. We additionally completed our own novel translation of the Calendar of the Soul. To facilitate seasonal practices, we expanded our Festivals offerings, including a new curated collection of readings for All Souls' Day and remembrance of the dead. We additionally expanded our Topics page to include readings for a wide range of interests.
๐๐๐ค ๐ด๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ . We published our own articles summarizing and referencing the works of Rudolf Steiner with links to the full texts to inspire further research. By sharing these posts via social media and email campaigns, we engaged a wider audience.
This has been truly a breakthrough year for the Rudolf Steiner Archive as we establish ourselves as a premier resource for the work of Rudolf Steiner. Please give generously to help us exceed our $25,000 goal so we may continue to offer this service at no cost to the general public. Subscribe for monthly donations if that works better for you. Together with your financial support, we can help bring Anthroposophy to life.
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