At the Gates of Spiritual Science: Fourteen Lectures Given in Stuttgart, 22 August to 4 September, 1906

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Rudolf Steiner P., 1970 - Anthroposophy - 160 pages

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Prefatory Note
7
Lecture Three
27
Lecture Five
44
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About the author (1970)

Austrian-born Rudolf Steiner was a noted Goethe (see Vol. 2) scholar and private student of the occult who became involved with Theosophy in Germany in 1902, when he met Annie Besant (1847--1933), a devoted follower of Madame Helena P. Blavatsky (1831--1891). In 1912 he broke with the Theosophists because of what he regarded as their oriental bias and established a system of his own, which he called Anthroposophy (anthro meaning "man"; sophia sophia meaning "wisdom"), a "spiritual science" he hoped would restore humanism to a materialistic world. In 1923 he set up headquarters for the Society of Anthroposophy in New York City. Steiner believed that human beings had evolved to the point where material existence had obscured spiritual capacities and that Christ had come to reverse that trend and to inaugurate an age of spiritual reintegration. He advocated that education, art, agriculture, and science be based on spiritual principles and infused with the psychic powers he believed were latent in everyone. The world center of the Anhthroposophical Society today is in Dornach, Switzerland, in a building designed by Steiner. The nonproselytizing society is noted for its schools.

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TitleAt the Gates of Spiritual Science: Fourteen Lectures Given in Stuttgart, 22 August to 4 September, 1906
AuthorRudolf Steiner
PublisherRudolf Steiner P., 1970
ISBN0854402268, 9780854402267
Length160 pages
  
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