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by Christopher Bamford,Rudolf Steiner

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Christopher Bamford,Rudolf Steiner

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English

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SteinerBooks; Revised edition (November 15, 2006)

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Alternative Medicine

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This book is actually the combination of two different books written by Rudolf Steiner: A Way of Self-Knowledge and The Threshold of the Spiritual World

Rudolf Steiner - Truth and Knowledge Indeed, in spiritual training, the spiritual teacher today increasingly takes on a merely helping role, just as in accordance with contemporary educational.

Rudolf Steiner - Truth and Knowledge. Rudolf Steiner - The Foundations Of Human Experience. Temperaments and the Arts. Rudolf Steiner - Genesis. The road is long but secure, and is open to everyone. Indeed, in spiritual training, the spiritual teacher today increasingly takes on a merely helping role, just as in accordance with contemporary educational philosophy ordinary teachers in other fields of knowledge are expected to do.

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).

Rudolf Steiner, Robert Lathe, Nicola Whittaker. I hope that reading this book can become a kind of inner conversation

Rudolf Steiner, Robert Lathe, Nicola Whittaker. I hope that reading this book can become a kind of inner conversation. If this conversation unfolds in such a way that it reveals the hidden inner forces that can be awakened in every soul, then reading this book may lead to genu-ine, inner soul work. As a result you may find yourself gradually impelled to undertake the journey of the soul that truly leads to vision of the spiritual world.

A Road to Self Knowledge and the Threshold of the Spiritual World by. Rudolf Steiner.

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In this simple, readable volume, Rudolf Steiner, one of the great spiritual masters of the modern era, sets out some step-by-step practices for awakening higher consciousness. This book offers much more, however. It also shows how to integrate the spiritual path with our daily lives, so that we become more effective and caring human beings. Steiner shows how we can progress on the spiritual path only when we awaken our love and compassion for the world around us.

Part 1: a way of self-knowledge. 19. Aphorism 10: Cosmic Beings of the Spiritual Worlds. 20. Aphorism 11: On the First Rudiments of the Physical Body. 21. Aphorism 12: The True "I" of the Human Being. with summary and further Remarks).

Originally published in 1918, this book takes an extensive look into how to achieve greater self-knowledge, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

“I hope that reading this book can become a kind of inner conversation. If this conversation unfolds in such a way that it reveals the hidden inner forces that can be awakened in every soul, then reading this book may lead to genuine, inner soul work. As a result you may find yourself gradually impelled to undertake the journey of the soul that truly leads to vision of the spiritual world.” ―Rudolf SteinerPart one, “A Way of Self-Knowledge”: 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 awareness―his path of attention to one’s own experience―is universal and truly human. A Way of Self-Knowledge 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 self-knowledge and to the world of spirit. This Collected Works edition contains a new introduction, a chronology of Rudolf Steiner's life, and an index. Front cover image: Meditation by Jennifer Thomson (www.phoenixartsgroup.org) A Way of Self-Knowledge: And the Threshold of the Spiritual World is a translation of «Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen: In acht Meditationen» (GA 16) and «Die Schwelle dre geistigen Welt: Aphoristische Ausführungen» (GA 17).

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This book is actually the combination of two different books written by Rudolf Steiner: A Way of Self-Knowledge and The Threshold of the Spiritual World. Both of these "internal" books are short - 55 pages and 67 pages, respectively - but they are deeply challenging books that the reader should not plan to whip through.

The first internal book contains eight meditations in addition to an introduction that contains the following guidelines for approaching meditative content from Steiner:

"We must learn to submit to it totally, allowing all its power to radiate within us. We must learn to love it. If we think we have understood it, that simply means the time has come to let it shine within us again. Our intellectual understanding is not the point. The point is to love its inner truth. The more we love such inner truths, and feel this love streaming through us, the more the power of inner sight awakens within us."

These eight meditations explore the nature of the various aspects of the human being as well aspects of the suprasensory worlds.

The second internal book contains 12 aphorisms. These aphorisms deal with the following subject-matter among others:

· Developing a deeper understanding of the different elements of the human being (physical, etheric and astral)

· Preparing the human soul for meeting the Guardian of the Threshold

· Learning how to develop the soul forces necessary for a proper understanding and interpretation of the spiritual world - and how to avoid using these new soul forces improperly in the physical world

· Understanding the Beings of the spiritual world and how to experience them, as well as exercises and activities that can be undertaken while still in the physical world to facilitate these capabilities in the elemental and spiritual worlds

Although there appears to be some overlap in subject-matter between the two internal books, as with all of Steiner's works, each version is fresh since he never approaches the same subject twice in the same way.

Every short chapter in each of these two internal books will challenge the reader in ways that develop the reader for suprasensory experiences. I would advise those readers that are already familiar with two of Steiner's fundamental "basic" books (Theosophy and Esoteric Science) to read the short remarks about the terminology he uses on pages 132 and 133 before starting the book. Anyone who has worked through the extremely challenging chapter about cosmic evolution in Esoteric Science will find the second internal book here very rewarding in terms of gaining a better understanding of the Hierarchical Beings discussed in that chapter.

Ffel

Steiner's writing voice feels candid and deeply wise, yet also intimate and conversational. I particularly love the eight meditations of Part One, but the aphorisms of Part Two are also amazing. Steiner is a master at finding ordinary language to describe extraordinary states of consciousness. He makes meditative states of mind accessible by making you conscious of your own consciousness and what it can do. In fact it's his mission to take esotericism out of the exotic and into modern language and modern life. Steiner revered the human ability to turn our souls toward spirit and he insisted that a person who meditates can still stay firmly connected to everyday tasks and joys. His precise, modest desciptions will help newcomers start meditating and will confirm what experienced meditators have noticed and perhaps wondered about. Reading Steiner is like meeting a completely unassuming yet deeply able and wise expert who makes himself available and tells you just what you need to know. Steiner was and is a foremost Western esotericist. If you're familiar with his classic, How To Know Higher Worlds, you'll recognize the shorter A Way of Knowledge as a sister volume. I predict that this little gem of a handbook will become a beloved companion for many who want to develop and enrich their relationship to the spiritual in life.

The cry down the ages, "Man Know Yourself!" is largely still without a response. This series of essays is a great companion to the process of knowing ourselves - which only we can do. There is no book that will set it out for us, it is work that we each must do. This book is a lifelong companion.

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