Name: a way to self-knowledge
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Author: Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9780880104432

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Introduction by

Christopher Bamford

Preface by

Friedemann-Eckart Schwarzkopf

Publisher

Steiner Books

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.6x15.1x1.5 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

9780880104432

ISBN13

9780880104432

Synopsis "a way to self-knowledge"

2 written works, 1912 & 1913 (CW 16/17) Part one, "A Way of Self-Knowledge" Eight meditations that take the reader on a journey through human experience. Beginning with ordinary experience, Steiner offers ways to imagine and understand the physical body, the elemental (or etheric) body, the elemental world, the Guardian of the Threshold, the astral body, the "I"-body (or thought body), the nature of experience in suprasensory worlds, and ways of perceiving previous earthly lives. Part two, "The Threshold of the Spiritual World" Sixteen short chapters in which Steiner provides aphoristic thoughts on trusting one's thinking, cognition of the spiritual world, karma and reincarnation, the astral body and luciferic beings, how to recognize suprasensory consciousness, the true nature of love, and more. These two complete books together represent Steiner's most personal statements about his own spiritual path. He speaks directly from experiences of cognitive research and explorations. Each of the meditations and aphorisms arises from his spiritual research and demonstrates how such spiritual research is to be undertaken. The "content" is Steiner's own, but readers can discover their own "content." Steiner's method of awareness--his path of attention to one's own experience--is universal and truly human. A Way of Self-Knowledge is a true sequel and complement to the classic of inner development, How to Know Higher Worlds. It lays out in a way that is accessible to anyone the road to self-knowledge and to the world of spirit. CONTENTS Introduction by Christopher BamfordPreface by Friedemann Schwarzkopf PART ONE: A WAY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE: MEDITATIONS 1. The Physical Body 2. The Elemental (or Etheric) Body 3. Clairvoyant Cognition of the Elemental World 4. The "Guardian of the Threshold" 5. The Astral Body6. The "I"-Body or Thought-Body 7. The Nature of Experience in Suprasensory Worlds 8. Beholding Your Previous Earthly Lives PART TWO: THE THRESHOLD OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD: APHORISMS 1. Trust in Thinking. The Nature of the Thinking Soul2. Cognizing the Spiritual World 3. The Human Etheric Body and the Elemental World4. Repeated Earthly Lives and Karma5. The Astral Body and Luciferic Beings.6. The "Guardian of the Threshold."7. "I"-Feeling, the Human Soul's Capacity to Love, and Their Relationship to the Elemental World8. The Boundary between the Sensory and the Supersensory Worlds9. On the Nature of the Spiritual Worlds10. Cosmic Beings of the Spiritual Worlds11. On the First Rudiments of the Physical Body12. The True "I" of the Human Being A Way of Self-Knowledge: And the Threshold of the Spiritual Worldis a translation of Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen: In acht Meditationen (GA 16) and Die Schwelle dre geistigen Welt: Aphoristische Ausführungen (GA 17).

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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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