Synopsis
Rudolf Steiner tells us that the wisdom and knowledge of the old Mysteries was not only in the intellect of mankind, but a wisdom that touched the deepest parts of their being. It was felt that the one receiving this knowledge needed to be prepared both physically and mentally for this information or it could be misused. Proper initiation was the answer. This 1910 First American Edition was Translated into English by Max Gysi and has an Introduction by Edouard Schuré.
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Biographie de l'auteur
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (25/27 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of idealist philosophy and with links to theosophy. Steiner led this movement through several phases. In the first, more philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism; his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts (developing a new artistic form, eurythmy) and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked to establish various practical endeavors, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine. Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual component. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, in which “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.” A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge.
Présentation de l'éditeur
Rudolf Steiner tells us that the wisdom and knowledge of the old Mysteries was not only in the intellect of mankind, but a wisdom that touched the deepest parts of their being. It was felt that the one receiving this knowledge needed to be prepared both physically and mentally for this information least it be misused. Proper initiation was the answer. This 1910 First American Edition was Translated into English by Max Gysi and has an Introduction by Edouard Schuré.
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