Bücher von Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner's superb thesis provides deep insight into spiritual science, and the history of mankind as viewed through the philosophy of the anthroposophy movement he founded.An Outline of Esoteric Science attempts to reconcile mankind's spiritual being with the scientific exactitude which had emerged among scholars in the 19th century. Steiner lays out the spiritual realms which are invisible to us, attempting to use a defined precision similar to that which had emerged in science.In the final section, this book refers to the spiritual development and contemplation necessary for individuals to see the spiritual realms and planes which comprise existence and the universe. The means by which individuals may train themselves introspectively to see are detailed by Steiner, whose theosophical philosophy was, by the time of this book's publication in 1909, well-developed.

This work is a powerful argument for Christianity as a religion of mystical initiation and the only religion in which the eternal wisdom, the Logos, was made flesh - in Christ. Moreover, unlike the adepts of old, Jesus was "…the initiator of the whole of humanity, and humanity was to be his own community of Mystics." From an early age Austrian-born Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), a respected scholar, felt the reality of the spiritual world and devoted much of his life to proving this assumption by "…introspective observation following the methods of Natural Science." In Christianity as Mystical Fact, Dr. Steiner looks at mysticism within Christianity and also its source in pre-Christian times - the priest sages of the Egyptian mystical schools and Greece's famous initiates such as Solon, Aristides and Plato. He argues that the spiritual claims of Christianity cannot be proved by a literal historical approach to the bible. Rather, it is only through mystical enlightenment or "gnosis" that Christianity's spiritual message can be truly known and this experience, according to Steiner, is no less an empirical fact than those of orthodox science. He looks at the New Testament with the eyes of a mystic and finds a whole other layer of meaning there - for example, in the Lazarus miracle, which he describes as a spiritual initiation, "… the point of transition from lower to higher knowledge."

Cos" lÕintroduzione del Vangelo di Giovanni ? diventata qualcosa di molto difficile per i teologi, tinti di materialismo. La dottrina del Logos o del Verbo ha recato grandi difficolt¿ alla gente. Essi dicono: ÇCi piacerebbe che tutto fosse semplice e ingenuo. Ed ecco questo Vangelo di Giovanni che viene a parlarci di cose filosofiche cos" alte, del Logos, della Vita, della Luce!È Le prime parole del Vangelo di Giovanni penetrano veramente subito nei pi? profondi misteri del mondo. Queste si vede, se lasciamo che le verit¿ della scienza dello Spirito, che di esse costituiscono la base, si affaccino allÕanima nostra; e dovremo attingere profondamente alla conoscenza spirituale, se vogliamo che queste prime parole del Vangelo si rivelino a noi nella loro giusta luce.

Chi si limita alla conoscenza del mondo sensibile non pü immaginarsi quanto differissero da noi i nostri progenitori dell'Atlantide; e non soltanto nell'aspetto esteriore, ma anche nelle qualit¿ dello spirito. Le loro cognizioni, le arti tecniche, tutta la loro cultura era ben diversa da quella dei nostri giorni. Osservando l'umanit¿ atlantica dei primi tempi, vi troviamo facolt¿ spirituali diverse in tutto dalle nostre. L'intelletto razionale, la facolt¿ di combinare e di calcolare sulla quale oggi ? basato tutto ci¿ che si produce, mancavano interamente ai primi Atlanti. Dobbiamo chiarirci che, ogni qualvolta in un essere si sviluppa una nuova facolt¿, un'altra perde di forza e d'acutezza. L'uomo odierno possiede, di fronte a quello dell'Atlantide, l'intelletto razionale e la facolt¿ combinativa; la memoria invece ? venuta meno.

Occult Science is Rudolf Steiner's term for the ancient Way of Initiation, and in this book he shows that an objective description of the spiritual experience, (one quite as balanced as the findings of external science), is both possible and attainable. Material scientists pour scorn on the idea of other spiritual worlds, but it is unreasonable to expect that instruments of gross matter will ever detect the highly attenuated spiritual dimensions. Occult scientists consider the human body is the best, perhaps the only, instrument capable to reaching these dimensions, and while all such detection must perforce be subjective, it is no means non-objective. Regarded by many as Steiner's masterpiece, 'An Outline of Occult Science' is a book with many levels of meaning, one that will repay re-reading on a regular basis.

Rudolf Steiner's contribution to humanity has been prodigious: farms, schools, clinics and laboratories have all been established on the spiritual philosophy he expounded. Hitler and the Nazis banned all his works. The Anthroposophical Society, established by Steiner in 1912, has adherents around the world. It is open to all creeds and colours, demands no endorsement of doctrine, and holds as a universal principle the striving for the knowledge of the spirit in man and the cosmos. In 'Knowledge of the Higher Worlds,and Its Attainment' Rudolf Steiner reveals - to those willing to undertake the necessary discipline - the method by which this 'knowledge of the spirit' may be obtained.

In 1882, at the age of 21, Rudolf Steiner's life was changed forever by a seemingly chance meeting on a train. Traveling between Vienna and his home town of Pottschach, Steiner fell into conversation with Felix Koguzki, a lowly herb-gatherer who claimed to have personal and direct knowledge of higher worlds of spiritual attainment. Koguzki arranged for the young man to meet a mysterious individual, someone Steiner refers to only as a 'Master', who seems to have guided him successfully towards spiritual enlightenment. Steiner's book 'Theosophy' was published 28 years later, in 1910, and is a detailed account of this 'spiritual science', a method of attaining to the higher worlds that is replete with descriptions of esoteric realities, and what one may expect at the various milestones of human development. This is a book that will repay a slow and careful study, a treatise on the higher worlds that the reader can, with profit, return to again and again.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.