Name: Esoteric Lessons for the First Class of the Free School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum
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Author: James Stewart
ISBN: 9781948302456

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Esoteric Lessons for the First Class of the Free School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Translated by

Frank Thomas Smith

Illustrated by

James Stewart

Publisher

Anthroposophical Publications

Language

English

Pages

122

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781948302456

Synopsis "Esoteric Lessons for the First Class of the Free School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum "

During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas1923, Rudolf Steiner also reconstituted the "Esoteric School" which had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the outset of the First World War made it's continuance impossible.However, the original school was only for a relatively few selected individuals, whereas the new school was incorporated into the Free School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.Rudolf Steiner was only able to give nineteen lessons - plus seven "recapitulation" lessons - for the First Class before his illness and death. His intention had been to develop three classes. The lessons were recorded by a stenographer, then typed in clear text without having been reviewed by Rudolf Steiner. They had not been publicly accessible until recently.

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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James Stewart

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James Drewry Stewart (March 29, 1941 - December 3, 2014) was a Canadian mathematician and professor emeritus at McMaster University. He earned his master's degree at Stanford University and his PhD at the University of Toronto in 1967. His research focused on harmonic and functional analysis. In addition to his academic career, Stewart was a violinist and a member of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.

Stewart is recognized for his series of calculus textbooks widely used in secondary and higher education. Among his most notable works are "Calculus: Early Transcendentals" (1995) and "Calculus: Concepts and Contexts" (1997), both in the genre of mathematics textbooks. His texts are considered standard in many educational institutions worldwide.

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