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Esoteric Development
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
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Esoteric Development
Selected Lectures and Writings from the Works of Rudolf Steiner
On-line since: 28th February, 2011
Esoteric Development
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
Lectures Section
Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically
clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
super-sensible realities. Topics covered include the "six basic exercises,"
fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative
training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in
acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
chakras, and the three types of esoteric paths: Oriental Yoga,
By Rudolf Steiner
Various translators, edited by Alice Wulsin
Various Bn/GA numbers
Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically
clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing
super-sensible realities. Topics covered include the "six basic exercises,"
fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative
training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in
acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or
chakras, and the three types of esoteric paths: Oriental Yoga,
Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.
“With an informative introduction by Alan Howard, Esoteric Development
is a useful introduction to the spiritual development exercises taught
by Rudolf Steiner.” - New Age Book Review.
Edited by Alice Wulsin and with a cover design by Peter Van Oordt, this
volume is presented here with the kind permission of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
Copyright © 1982
This e.Text edition is provided with the cooperation of:
The Anthroposophic Press
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| Cover Sheet |
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| Introduction |
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| Contents |
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| Publisher's Note |
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Lecture I: | Inner Development |
December 07, 1905 |
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Lecture,
December 7, 1905; Bn/GA number 54.
Translated for this volume by Gertrude Teutsch.
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Lecture II: | Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy |
April 08, 1911 |
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Lecture,
April 8, 1911; Bn/GA number 35. Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker. First published
by Anthroposophic Press, Inc. Translation revised for this volume.
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Lecture III: | Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy As a Demand of the Age |
September 26, 1923 |
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Lecture,
September 26, 1923; Bn/GA number 84. Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker.
First published by Anthroposophic Press, Inc. 1943. Translation
revised for this volume.
(See this original translation as
Lecture I in the lecture series,
Supersensible Knowledge (Anthroposophy) as a Demand of the Age.
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Lecture IV: | Attainment of Supersensible Knowledge |
August 20, 1922 |
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Lecture,
August 20, 1922; GA #305.
First published in the Anthroposophy Quarterly Vol. 4, No. 2
(1929). Translation revised extensively for this volume. Permission
to revise original translation kindly granted by Rudolf Steiner Press.
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Chapter V: | General Demands Which Every Aspirant for Occult Development Must Put to Himself |
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Written work; GA #245.
Previously published by Rudolf Steiner Press as part of the volume
Guidance in Esoteric Training. Revised for this volume with
the kind permission of Rudolf Steiner Press.
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Chapter VI: | Further Rules in Continuation of General Demands |
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Written text; GA #245.
Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.
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Lecture VII: | The Great Initiates |
March 16, 1905 |
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Lecture,
March 16, 1905; GA #53.
Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.
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Lecture VIII: | The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages: The Rosicrucian Spiritual Path |
October 20, 1906 |
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Lecture,
October 20, 1906; GA #96.
Translated for this volume by Diane Tatum.
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Lecture IX: | Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination |
October 21, 1906 |
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Lecture,
October 21, 1906; GA #96.
Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.
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Lecture X: | The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition |
March 02, 1915 |
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Lecture,
March 2, 1915; GA #157.
Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.
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| Notes to the Texts |
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| Additional Reading |
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