Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy
Cultural Phenomena from the Point of View of Spiritual Science
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Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy
Cultural Phenomena from the Point of View of Spiritual Science
About this book
What is truly real? Rudolf Steiner sheds light on everyday reality through spiritual knowledge, repeatedly urging us to bring anthroposophy into daily human existence. We might consciously experience the difference between consuming a potato as compared to cereals such as rye, for example – or we could grasp ordinary phenomena, such as sleepwalking, through an understanding of the threefold human being. Likewise, we might strive to comprehend how our head is the transformed organism of our previous life. Throughout, Steiner emphasizes that we can achieve spirituality on earth if only we make anthroposophy real.The twelve lectures here were delivered during the portentous year of 1923, in the context of increasing attacks from Steiner's opponents. His architectural masterpiece, the first Goetheanum, had already been destroyed by fire, but he was yet to refound the Anthroposophical Society at the Christmas Conference. In these uncertain times, Steiner speaks of the decline of European culture and the development of materialism as a philosophy, leaving anthroposophy with no exoteric foundation on which to build. But Rudolf Steiner strikes a positive note with an exciting and constructive way forward, providing us with the tools to see the world through three key perspectives of anthroposophy: the physical, the soul and the spiritual dimensions of reality.This previously-unpublished volume is translated by Elizabeth Marshall and includes an introduction, notes and index.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction, by Elizabeth Marshall
- Dornach, 5 May 1923 The nature of the spiritual crisis of the nineteenth century
- Dornach, 6 May 1923 The mystery of the head and of the lower human being
- Dornach, 1 July 1923 Cultural phenomena
- Dornach, 6 July 1923 A study of the century from 1823 to 1923
- Dornach, 7 July 1923 Community building in Central Europe
- Dornach, 8 July 1923 European culture and its relationship to the Latin language Greek and Roman mysteries
- Dornach, 15 July 1923 The gnostic foundations of Pre-Christianity. Imagination of Europe
- Dornach, 20 July 1923 I. The physical perspective
- Dornach, 21 July 1923 II. The soul perspective
- Dornach, 22 July 1923 III. The spiritual perspective
- Dornach, 22 September 1923 The dream world as a transition between the physical-natural world and the world of ethical considerations
- Dornach, 23 September 1923 Jakob Boehme, Paracelsus, Swedenborg
- Notes
- Rudolf Steiner’s Collected Works
- Significant Events in the Life of Rudolf Steiner
- Index