Name: The Four Seasons and the Archangels: Experience of the Course of the Year in Four Cosmic Imaginations (Cw 229)
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf
ISBN: 9781855840508

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The Four Seasons and the Archangels: Experience of the Course of the Year in Four Cosmic Imaginations (Cw 229)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

Year

2008

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 13.5 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.19 kg.

ISBN13

9781855840508

Edition No.

0004

Synopsis "The Four Seasons and the Archangels: Experience of the Course of the Year in Four Cosmic Imaginations (Cw 229)"

5 lectures, Dornach, Switzerland, October 5-13, 1923 (CW 229)These five profound lectures look at the cosmic forces behind the four great festivals of the year, providing a wealth of material for fruitful thought and meditation. Steiner presents great imaginative pictures that unite the heavens and the Earth through a portrayal of the activities of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel.In the course of the lectures, Rudolf Steiner offers spiritual insight into subjects that include the alchemical processes of sulfur, mercury, and salt in the cosmos; the realms of humankind and plants; spiritual "combustion" processes; crystals; clouds and meteors; the movements of elemental beings in nature; and the conflicting efforts of Lucifer and Ahriman--the two great adversaries--to divert Earth from its true purpose.The Four Seasons and the Archangels includes five color plates of Rudolf Steiner's blackboard drawings made during the lectures.This volume is a translation from German of Das Miterleben des Jahreslaufes in vier kosmischen Imaginationen (GA 229).

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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