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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 #63
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.
This work begins with 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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