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Why Parzival? endeavors to explore and uncover the overarching cultural, educational, and spiritual significance of Parzival from an anthroposophical perspective. The growing call of the elusive Grail in the age of the consciousness soul-in which we find ourselves irrevocably embedded-speaks directly to the evident needs of our fast-changing times and to the evolving future. Wolfram von Eschenbach's Grail saga addresses the challenges of the contemporary individual, while awakening and reconnecting those inner destiny forces to the respective local and global communities through a series of grand imaginations. Studying this step-by-step journey of initiation has been a staple in Waldorf High Schools from the very beginning, and periodically it makes sense to remember why it was chosen and what it has to offer to the young person and our increasingly complex contemporary global society.

For many years, Erika von Baravalle worked on the documents about the building history of the first and second Goetheanum and opened up the artistic legacy of Albert von Baravalle, who worked closely with Rudolf Steiner as an architect. Additionally, she also carried out a large number of her own studies that had to do with the spiritual and artistic motifs of both buildings (and their precursors). To mark the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Johannesbau, as the Goetheanum was initially called, she presented various of her essays in an anthology, rich with visual material-as well as eyewitness reports of the first laying of the foundation stone: studies by Fritz Götte, Elisabeth Vreede, Walter Bühler, and Ernst Bindel, as well as Rudolf Steiner's speeches leading up to and from the event of September 20, 1913, accounts which have never appeared or been available in such a compilation before.

24 is a collection of poems, sixteen of which reflect an exhibit of Garbisch''s photography that first premiered at Lightforms Gallery in Hudson, New York. The poems speak of the human being''s inherent connection with light and with the sacred movement of life itself. Furthermore, they ask: How much do I, whoever I am in the world, provide a door to love? Because love needs a door. It is not here, not yet on earth, not wholly, more as an anticipation. Love longs, however, to be here, inseparable from the world, alive in every word, work, and gesture, and it can only be born on the earth through us.