Macrocosm and Microcosm

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Rudolf Steiner Press, 1985 - Anthroposophy - 205 pages

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Contents

Lecture One II
11
Lecture Two
29
Lecture Three
46
Copyright

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Macrocosm and Microcosm
Rudolf Steiner
Limited preview - 1986
Macrocosm and Microcosm: Eleven Lectures Given in Vienna 21st to 31st March 1910
Rudolf Steiner
Snippet view - 1968
Macrocosm and Microcosm
Rudolf Steiner
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Common terms and phrases

able acquire activity actually astral body aware become begin brain called certain connected consciousness Cosmic course descend described earlier Earth ecstasy effect Elementary World enter etheric body everything evolution example existence experience expression external eyes fact faculty feeling fire forces future give given happens heart higher worlds hold human Images impressions incarnation indicated influence Initiation inner intellect kind knowledge lectures light living logic look Macrocosm man's means memory mystic namely nature night normal ordinary organs ourselves outer world pass path perceive person physical and etheric physical body physical world picture plant possible present qualities reached realise reality reflection revealed sense side sleep soul space speak Spiritual Science spiritual world stage stream symbol things thinking to-day true truth understand waking warmth whole World of Spirit

About the author (1985)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleMacrocosm and Microcosm
AuthorRudolf Steiner
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherRudolf Steiner Press, 1985
ISBN0854405127, 9780854405121
Length205 pages
  
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