Name: Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts I: The Cognitional Path of Anthroposophy - The Mystery of Michael
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Author: Amrine, Frederick ; Steiner, Rudolf
ISBN: 9781099740497

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Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts I: The Cognitional Path of Anthroposophy - The Mystery of Michael

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Translated by

Frederick Amrine

Publisher

Independently Published

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.4 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN13

9781099740497

Synopsis "Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts I: The Cognitional Path of Anthroposophy - The Mystery of Michael"

This is one of Steiner's very most important books. Written on what would turn out to be his deathbed, it contains summaries of all of anthroposophy in the lapidary form of epigrams. This is the first of seven volumes. Steiner sought to reorganize and re-energize the Society in the aftermath of the Christmas Conference held in 1923/1924. The aphorisms contained herein were one way of making possible a kind of "concerted action" guided by the Goetheanum. A few highlights: First we must realize that the world cannot ever answer the question who we are; it can only destroy us. To answer that question ultimately, we have to develop Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. Deep insight into human nature is provided when we view ourselves "pictorially," like a picture being at first intuited by the painter, and only becoming of finished painting after a long imaginative and inspired process. The volume includes two appendices, with selections from The Life, Nature, and Cultivation of Anthroposophy, and Carl Unger's marvelous reflections on the Leading Thoughts in aphoristic form.

Rudolf Steiner

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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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