Wonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit: Ten Lectures Given in Munich, 18th-27th August 1911

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Rudolf Steiner Press, 1963 - Anthroposophy - 192 pages
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Steiner depicts here the deep realities of the spiritual life of the Greeks and the deeds of their gods, as well as the Eleusinian and Dionysian Mysteries. He shows how the same living reality of the spiritual world can be reawakened today in a modern form through spiritual science due to the incarnation of Christ at the time of the Greek culture.

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Contents

Lecture
14
The true meaning of ordeals of the soul
152
of St Paul 27th August 1911
171
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About the author (1963)

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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TitleWonders of the World, Ordeals of the Soul, Revelations of the Spirit: Ten Lectures Given in Munich, 18th-27th August 1911
AuthorRudolf Steiner
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherRudolf Steiner Press, 1963
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 20, 2006
ISBN0854403639, 9780854403639
Length192 pages
  
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