Rudolf Steiner explains that the sages of former times literally experienced Nature as a majestic being - the Goddess - endowed with spirit, operating everywhere.
The Holy Grail quest for Rudolf Steiner is a potent, many-sided symbol connected with the whole secret of humanity’s spiritual development, past, present and future.
In The Gnostic Gospels Alan Jacobs presents texts discovered at Nag Hammadi including the gospels of Thomas, Philip and Mary Magdalene, The Sophia of Jesus Christ and The Fable of the Pearl.