Name: Harmony of the Creative Word: The Human Being & the Elemental, Animal, Plant, and Mineral Kingdoms (Cw 230)
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Barton, Matthew
ISBN: 9781855840980

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Harmony of the Creative Word: The Human Being & the Elemental, Animal, Plant, and Mineral Kingdoms (Cw 230)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Translated by

Matthew Barton

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

244

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.8 x 14.9 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN

1855840987

ISBN13

9781855840980

Synopsis "Harmony of the Creative Word: The Human Being & the Elemental, Animal, Plant, and Mineral Kingdoms (Cw 230)"

12 lectures, October 19 - November 11, 1923 (CW 230)This is one of Steiner's most popular lecture courses. He presents an extraordinary panorama of spiritual knowledge that focuses on the human being as a microcosm containing all the laws and secrets of the cosmos.Steiner speaks of our inner relationship to three ancient and sacred representatives of the animal kingdom--eagle, lion, and bull--and our connection with the cosmic forces that form them. He deepens these themes by approaching the plant and animal worlds within the context of planetary and cosmic evolution. He then introduces us to the elemental nature spirits--the metaphysical beings that work with plants and animals--and gives us unique and intimate descriptions of them, describing the cooperation they offer to humankind.Finally, the human being--the "harmony of the Creative Word"--is placed at the heart of this spiritual celebration of life. These are important lectures for understanding Steiner's view of humankind within the context of cosmic and earthly evolutionHarmony of the Creative Word is a translation from German of Der Mensch als Zusammenklang des schaffenden, bildenden und gestaltenden Weltenwortes (GA 230). A previous edition was published as Man As Symphony of the Creative Word.

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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