FOR
FURTHER READING
Rudolf
Steiner intended these carefully written volumes to serve as a
foundation to all of the later, more advanced anthroposophical
writings and lecture courses.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUAL ACTIVITY
by Rudolf Steiner. “Is human
action free?” asks Steiner in his most important philosophical
work. By first addressing the nature of knowledge, Steiner cuts
across the ancient debate of real or illusory human freedom. A
painstaking examination of human experience as a polarity of percepts
and concepts shows that only in thinking does one escape the
compulsion of natural law. Steiner's argument arrives at the
recognition of the self-sustaining, universal reality of thinking
that embraces both subjective and objective validity. Free acts
can be performed out of love for a “moral intuition”
grasped ever anew by a living thinking activity. Steiner scrutinizes
numerous world-views and philosophical positions and finally
indicates the relevance of his conclusion to human relations and
life's ultimate questions.
(262
pp) Paper, $8.95 #1074; Cloth,
$18.00 #1073
KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS AND ITS ATTAINMENT
by Rudolf Steiner. Rudolf
Steiner's fundamental work on the path to higher knowledge explains
in detail the exercises and disciplines a student must pursue in
order to attain a wakeful experience of super-sensible realities. The
Stages of Preparation, Enlightenment, and Initiation are described,
as is the transformation of dream-life and the meeting with the
Guardian of the Threshold. Moral exercises for developing each
of the spiritual lotus petal organs (“chakras”) are given
in accordance with the rule of taking three steps in moral
development for each step into spiritual knowledge. The path
described here is a safe one which will not interfere with the
student's ability to lead a normal outer life.
(272
pp) Paper. $6.95 #80; Cloth,
$14.00 #363
THEOSOPHY, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SUPERSENSIBLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD AND THE DESTINATION OF MAN
by Rudolf Steiner. In this work Steiner carefully
explains many of the basic concepts and terminologies of
anthroposophy. The book begins with a sensitive description of
the primordial trichotomy: body, soul, and spirit, elaborating the
various higher members of the human constitution. A discussion of
reincarnation and karma follows. The next and longest chapter
presents, in a vast panorama, the seven regions of the soul world,
the seven regions of the land of spirits, and the soul's journey
after death through these worlds. A brief discussion of the path to
higher knowledge follows.
(195
pp) Paper, $6.95 #155; Cloth,
$9.95 #154
AN OUTLINE OF OCCULT SCIENCE
by Rudolf Steiner. A
thorough discussion and definition of the term “occult”
science. A description of the super-sensible nature of the human being
follows, along with a discussion of dreams, sleep, death, life
between death and rebirth, and reincarnation. In the fourth chapter
evolution is described from the perspective of initiation
science. The fifth chapter characterizes the training a student must
undertake as a preparation for initiation. The sixth and seventh
chapters consider the future evolution of the world and more detailed
observations regarding super-sensible realities.
(388
pp) Paper, $9.95 #113, Cloth,
$16.00 #112
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