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Part one, "A Way of SelfKnowledge" Eight meditations that take the reader on a journey through human experience.
Beginning with ordinary experience, Steiner offers ways to imagine and understand the physical body, the elemental or etheric body, the elemental world, the Guardian of the Threshold, the astral body, the "I"body or thought body, the nature of experience in suprasensory worlds, and ways of perceiving previous earthly lives.
Part two, "The Threshold of the Spiritual World" Sixteen short chapters in which Steiner provides aphoristic thoughts on trusting one's thinking, cognition of the spiritual world, karma and reincarnation, the astral body and luciferic beings, how to recognize suprasensory consciousness, the true nature of love, and more.
These two complete books together represent Steiner's most personal statements about his own spiritual path, He speaks directly from experiences of cognitive research and explorations, Each of the meditations and aphorisms arises from his spiritual research and demonstrates how such spiritual research is to be
undertaken, The "content" is Steiner's own, but readers can discover their own "content, " Steiner's method of awarenesshis path of attention to one's own experienceis universal and truly human,
A Way of SelfKnowledge is a true sequel and complement to the classic of inner development, How to Know Higher Worlds, It lays out in a way that is accessible to anyone the road to selfknowledge and to the world of spirit,
CONTENTS
Introduction by Christopher Bamford
Preface by Friedemann Schwarzkopf
PART ONE: A WAY OF SELFKNOWLEDGE: MEDITATIONS
, The Physical Body
. The Elemental or Etheric Body
, Clairvoyant Cognition of the Elemental World
, The "Guardian of the Threshold"
, The Astral Body
. The "I"Body or ThoughtBody
, The Nature of Experience in Suprasensory Worlds
, Beholding Your Previous Earthly Lives
PART TWO: THE THRESHOLD OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD: APHORISMS
, Trust in Thinking. The Nature of the Thinking Soul
, Cognizing the Spiritual World
, The Human Etheric Body and the Elemental World
, Repeated Earthly Lives and Karma
, The Astral Body and Luciferic Beings,
. The "Guardian of the Threshold, "
. "I"Feeling, the Human Soul's Capacity to Love, and Their Relationship to the Elemental World
, The Boundary between the Sensory and the Supersensory Worlds
, On the Nature of the Spiritual Worlds
, Cosmic Beings of the Spiritual Worlds
, On the First Rudiments of the Physical Body
, The True "I" of the Human Being
A Way of SelfKnowledge: And the Threshold of the Spiritual Worldis a translation of Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen: In acht Meditationen GAand Die Schwelle dre geistigen Welt: Aphoristische Ausfhrungen GA.
Steiner was a philosopher, social thinker, architect, and esotericist, Steiner led this movement through several phases, In the first, philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being.
In a second phase, beginning around, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts developing a new artistic form, eurythmy and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural center to house all the arts, the Goetheanum.
After the Steiner was a philosopher, social thinker, architect, and esotericist, "Steiner led this movement through several phases, In the first, philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being.
"In a second phase, beginning around, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts developing a new artistic form, eurythmy and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural center to house all the arts, the Goetheanum.
"After the First World War, Steiner worked with educators, farmers, doctors, and other professionals to develop Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine as well as new directions in numerous other practical areas.
"Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a explicitly spiritual component, He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, in which 'Thinking is no and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear, Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas, ' A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge.
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