Bøker av Rudolf Steiner

Include: ¿ The relationship between geometric studies and the development of direct spiritual perception¿ How to construct a fourth-dimensional hypercube¿ The six dimensions of the self-aware human being¿ Problems with the theory of relativity¿ The Trinity and angelic hierarchies and their relationship to physical space¿ The dimensional aspect of the spiritual being encountered by Moses on Mt. Sinai

The following pages are a translation of Dr. Steiner's Philosophie der Freiheit, which was published in Germany some twenty years ago. The edition was soon exhausted, and has never been reprinted; copies are much sought after but very difficult to obtain. The popularity of Dr. Steiner's later works upon ethics, mysticism, and kindred subjects has caused people to forget his earlier work upon philosophy in spite of the fact that he makes frequent references to this book and it contains the germs of which many of his present views are the logical outcome. For the above reasons, and with the author's sanction, I have decided to publish a translation. In 1918 Dr. Steiner published a revised edition of the Philosophie der Freiheit. For the translation of the new passages added to, and of the incidental changes made in, this revised edition I am indebted to Mr. Hoernlé, now Professor of Philosophy in the Armstrong College (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), University of Durham. At the author's request I have changed the title to Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, and throughout the entire work "freedom" should be taken to mean "spiritual activity." Dr. Steiner's Ph. D. Thesis on "Truth and Science," originally published as a prelude to The Philosophy of Freedom, has, with his consent, been translated for this edition and been added at the end of this volume.

An Outline of Occult Science is fascinating and definitive text on the subject of occult science by Rudolph Steiner. This classic book of the occult contains the following exerpt:In placing a book such as this in the hands of the public, the writer must calmly anticipate every kind of criticism regarding his work which is likely to arise in the present day. A reader, for instance, whose opinions are based upon the results of scientific research, after noting certain statements made here touching these things, may pronounce the following judgment: "It is astounding that such statements should be possible in our time. The most elementary conceptions of natural science are distorted in such a manner as to denote positively inconceivable ignorance of even the rudiments of science. The author uses such terms, for instance, as 'heat' in a way that would lead one to infer that he had let the entire wave of modern thought on the subject of physics sweep past him unperceived. Any one familiar with the mere elements of this science would show him that not even the merest dilettante could have made these statements, and they can only be dismissed as the outcome of rank ignorance."

Theosophy is a key work for gaining a solid footing in spiritual reality as described by Rudolf Steiner. It is organized into four parts. First, Steiner builds a comprehensive understanding of human nature: physical bodily nature; soul qualities; spirit being, or "I"-being; and the higher spiritual aspects.In the next section, Steiner offers an extraordinary overview of the laws of reincarnation and the principles of karma, as we pass from one life to the next. This prepares us for the third section, in which he shows the various ways in which we live¿during life on earth and after death and in the three worlds of body, soul, and spirit.Finally, we are given a succinct description of the path of knowledge, along which each person can begin to understand the marvelous and harmonious complexity of the psycho-spiritual worlds in their fullness.

Rudolf Steiner's four modern mystery dramas are powerful portrayals of the complex laws of reincarnation and karma, transporting us to landscapes of soul and spirit where supra-sensory beings are visible, active and influential.

This thoroughly revised edition of Background to the Gospel of St Mark by Rudolf Steiner, includes notes and appendices by Frederick Amrine and an extensive introduction by Robert McDermott.

Barely four months after the end of the First World War, with Europe in chaos and exhausted from years of conflict, Rudolf Steiner offered these lectures of hope and renewal. Despite continuing social troubles around the world, he knew that human beings had an opportunity to organize society in a new way.

Speaking during the early stages of the First World War - with the Western Front just miles away and thousands of young men dying - Rudolf Steiner focuses on the subject of death. These extraordinary lectures, previously unpublished in English, are presented here with an introduction, notes and an index.

Steiner divides these absorbing, previously-untranslated lectures into three sections, opening with 'The Value of Thinking'. He discusses the quality of thinking itself, contrasting 'dead physical cognition', 'living imaginative cognition', 'inspired cognition', and the latter's connection with previous periods of human and planetary development.

Replete with fresh immediacy, rich spiritual content, innovation and occasional humour, these talks were given at a time when Rudolf Steiner was preparing for independence from the Theosophical Society. The lectures are complemented with an introduction by Margaret Jonas, detailed notes and an index.

1. L'evoluzione delle forme di alimentazione 2. Problemi dell'alimentazione e metodi terapeutici 3. Problemi dell'alimentazione osservati alla luce della Scienza dello Spirito 4. Il processo alimentare 5. L'azione dell'alcool sull'uomo 6. L'azione della nicotina. Alimentazione vegetale e cibi animali

The thoughts expressed in this book are meant by Rudolf Steiner to contain the fundamental elements that he observed in Goethe's worldview. There was a particular appeal for Steiner in observing what nature reveals of its being and laws as perceived by Goethe's refined organs of sense and spirit. He came to understand how Goethe experienced such revelations as good fortune and happiness so great that he sometimes valued them over his poetic gift. Rudolf Steiner "lived into" the feelings that passed through Goethe's soul when he said: "Nothing motivates us so much to think about ourselves as when, after a long interval, we finally see again objects of the highest significance, scenes of nature with particularly decisive characteristics, and compare the impression remaining from the past with the present effect. We will then notice by and large that the object emerges more and more, that, while we earlier experienced joy and suffering in our encounter with the objects and projected our happiness and perplexity onto them, we now, with egoism tamed, grant them their rightful due, which is that we recognize their particularities and learn to value their characteristics more highly by thus living into them. The artistic eye yields the first kind of contemplation; the second kind is suited to the researcher of nature; and I had to count myself, although at first not without pain, still in the end fortunate that, as the first kind of sense threatened to leave me by and by, the second kind developed all the more powerfully in eye and spirit." -- GoetheThis volume is a translation from German of the written work Goethes Weltanschauung (GA 6).

"Published simultaneously in German by Verlaag am Goetheanum, Dornach."--Title page verso.

" It is the endeavour of this treatise to convey spiritual-scientific knowledge concerning the being of man. The method of representation is arranged in such a way that the reader may grow into what is depicted, so that, in the course of reading, it becomes for him a kind of self conference. If this soliloquy takes on such a form that thereby hitherto concealed forces, which can be awakened in every soul, reveal themselves, then the reading leads to a real inner work of the soul; and the latter can see itself gradually urged on to that soul journeying, which truly advances towards the beholding of the spiritual world. What has to be imparted, therefore, has been given in the form of eight Meditations, which can be actually practised. If this is done, they can be adapted for imparting to the soul, through its own inner deepening, that about which they speak. It has been my aim on the one hand, to give something to those readers who have already made themselves conversant with the literature dealing with the domain of the supersensible, as it is here understood....."

" ¿Blood is a very Special Fluid¿ Each one of you will doubtless be aware that the title of this lecture is taken from Goethe¿s Faust. You all know that in this poem we are shown how Faust, the representative of the highest human effort, enters into a pact with the evil powers, who on their side are represented in the poem by Mephistopheles, the emissary of hell. You will know, too, that Faust is to strike a bargain with Mephistopheles, the deed of which must be signed with his own blood. Faust, in the first instance, looks upon it as a jest. Mephistopheles, however, at this juncture utters the sentence which Goethe without a doubt intended should be taken seriously: ¿Blood is a very special fluid. ¿ Now, with reference to this line in Goethe¿s Faust, we come to a curious trait in the so-called Goethe commentators. You are of course aware how vast is the literature dealing with Goethe¿s version of the Faust Legend. It is a literature of such stupendous dimensions that whole libraries might be stocked with it, and naturally I cannot make it my business to expatiate on the various comments made by these interpreters of Goethe concerning this particular passage..."

Friedrich Nietzsche: Ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemäßen Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses gesamte Buch wurde neu abgetippt, neu gestaltet und neu formatiert. Da diese Bücher nicht aus gescannten Kopien bestehen, ist der Text lesbar und klar.

Die Philosophie der Freiheit: Grundzüge einer modernen Weltanschauung, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemäßen Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses gesamte Buch wurde neu abgetippt, neu gestaltet und neu formatiert. Da diese Bücher nicht aus gescannten Kopien bestehen, ist der Text lesbar und klar.

Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage in den Lebensnotwendigkeiten der Gegenwart und Zukunft, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemäßen Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses gesamte Buch wurde neu abgetippt, neu gestaltet und neu formatiert. Da diese Bücher nicht aus gescannten Kopien bestehen, ist der Text lesbar und klar.

Goethes Weltanschauung, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemäßen Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses gesamte Buch wurde neu abgetippt, neu gestaltet und neu formatiert. Da diese Bücher nicht aus gescannten Kopien bestehen, ist der Text lesbar und klar.

Das soziale Leben der Gegenwart stellt ernste, umfassende Aufgaben. Forderungen nach Neueinrichtungen in diesem Leben treten auf und zeigen, daß zur Lösung dieser Aufgaben Wege gesucht werden müssen, an die bisher nicht gedacht worden ist. Durch die Tatsachen der Gegenwart unterstützt, findet vielleicht heute schon derjenige Gehör, der, aus den Erfahrungen des Lebens heraus, sich zu der Meinung bekennen muß, daß dieses Nichtdenken an notwendig gewordene Wege in die soziale Verwirrung hineingetrieben hat. Auf der Grundlage einer solchen Meinung stehen die Ausführungen dieser Schrift. Sie möchten von dem sprechen, was geschehen sollte, um die Forderungen, die von einem großen Teile der Menschheit gegenwärtig gestellt werden, auf den Weg eines zielbewußten sozialen Wollens zu bringen. ¿ Ob dem einen oder dem andern diese Forderungen gefallen oder nicht gefallen, davon sollte bei der Bildung eines solchen Wollens wenig abhängen. Sie sind da, und man muß mit ihnen als mit Tatsachen des sozialen Lebens rechnen. Das mögen diejenigen bedenken, die, aus ihrer persönlichen Lebenslage heraus, etwa finden, daß der Verfasser dieser Schrift in seiner Darstellung von den proletarischen Forderungen in einer Art spricht, die ihnen nicht gefällt, weil sie, nach ihrer Ansicht, zu einseitig auf diese Forderungen als auf etwas hinweist, mit dem das soziale Wollen rechnen muß. Der Verfasser aber möchte aus der vollen Wirklichkeit des gegenwärtigen Lebens heraus sprechen, soweit ihm dieses nach seiner Erkenntnis dieses Lebens möglich ist. Ihm stehen die verhängnisvollen Folgen vor Augen, die entstehen müssen, wenn man Tatsachen, die nun einmal aus dem Leben der neueren Menschheit sich erhoben haben, nicht sehen will; wenn man von einem sozialen Wollen nichts wissen will, das mit diesen Tatsachen rechnet.

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