03-24-2011, 09:37 AM
Let us start a discussion thread on the works of Rudolf Steiner.
I suspect that many here will be, like me, a fan of Steiner's work, but for those who are unfamiliar with him, Steiner was an Austrian philosopher and mystic who was active from the 1880s until the 1920s; he founded the philosophic school of thought known as Anthropophosy. I think of him as filling the gap, both conceptually and temporally, between Emmanuel Swedenborg and Edgar Cayce.
Many books are published under his name. Although Steiner edited several books, he wrote few as such; rather, he delivered lectures, and wrote magazine articles, and in the years since his death, these have been collected and edited, and organized by subject. As delivered, they were not seriatim with respect to subject; he might lecture on bees one day, on angels the next, on Atlantis the next day, then on to soil, and so on. Steiner is also known as the originator of the Biodynamic method of agriculture.
Right now, I am reading his lectures on Atlantis, collected into the book Atlantis (the Fate of a Lost Land and Its Sacred Knowledge). The book is simply fabulous. Unlike most of the speculative claptrap that is published nowadays on the subject, Steiner's work is coherent and elucidating, and written from a spiritual perspective. It ties together the spiritual evolution of our Logos (the Sun and planets) with that of humans, and the origin and history of religions and schools of mysticism. Of particular interest to Bring4thers, Steiner comments in detail upon aspects of Atlantis that are only hinted at in the Ra material.
So many ideas are racing around in my head at this moment, that I will have to calm down some before I can discuss the book further. I highly recommend it to all here, and also his book, How to Know Higher Worlds.
Would anyone else care to comment upon Steiner and his works?
I suspect that many here will be, like me, a fan of Steiner's work, but for those who are unfamiliar with him, Steiner was an Austrian philosopher and mystic who was active from the 1880s until the 1920s; he founded the philosophic school of thought known as Anthropophosy. I think of him as filling the gap, both conceptually and temporally, between Emmanuel Swedenborg and Edgar Cayce.
Many books are published under his name. Although Steiner edited several books, he wrote few as such; rather, he delivered lectures, and wrote magazine articles, and in the years since his death, these have been collected and edited, and organized by subject. As delivered, they were not seriatim with respect to subject; he might lecture on bees one day, on angels the next, on Atlantis the next day, then on to soil, and so on. Steiner is also known as the originator of the Biodynamic method of agriculture.
Right now, I am reading his lectures on Atlantis, collected into the book Atlantis (the Fate of a Lost Land and Its Sacred Knowledge). The book is simply fabulous. Unlike most of the speculative claptrap that is published nowadays on the subject, Steiner's work is coherent and elucidating, and written from a spiritual perspective. It ties together the spiritual evolution of our Logos (the Sun and planets) with that of humans, and the origin and history of religions and schools of mysticism. Of particular interest to Bring4thers, Steiner comments in detail upon aspects of Atlantis that are only hinted at in the Ra material.
So many ideas are racing around in my head at this moment, that I will have to calm down some before I can discuss the book further. I highly recommend it to all here, and also his book, How to Know Higher Worlds.
Would anyone else care to comment upon Steiner and his works?
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