Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment - Softcover

Rudolf Steiner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160386492X ISBN 13: 9781603864923

Publisher: Merchant Books, 2012

Synopsis

An Unabridged Edition To Include: How Is Knowledge of the High Worlds Attained? - The Stages of Initiation - Initiation - Some Practical Aspects - The Conditions of Esoteric Training - Some Results of Initiation - The Transformation of Dream Life - The Continuity of Consciousness - The Splitting of the Human Personality during Spiritual Training - The Guardian of the Threshold - Life and Death, The Greater Guardian of the Threshold - Appendix

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About the Author

About the Author:

"Rudolf Steiner (born 25 February 1861 in Murakiraly, Austria-Hungary (now Donji Kraljevec, Croatia), died 30 March 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and esotericist. He was the founder of Anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine, and the new artistic form of Eurythmy.

He characterized anthroposophy as follows:
"Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe. Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst."

Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, where "Thinking is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas."" (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Edition details

• Publisher: Merchant Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160386492X
• ISBN 13: 9781603864923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108