Esoteric Development: Selected Lectures and WritingsSteinerBooks, 2003 - 170 oldal "You should not have any mystical ideas about meditation, nor should you think it is easy. Meditation must be completely clear, in the modern sense. Patience and inner soul energy are needed, and, above all, it depends on an act that no one else can do for you: it requires an inner resolve that you stick to. When you begin to meditate, you are performing the only completely free activity there is in human life" (Rudolf Steiner). This completely revised edition provides an ordered sequence of statements by Steiner on the development of higher, suprasensory knowing--Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. Nine chapters take the reader from the idea of inner development, through the cultural and evolutionary need for higher knowing, and then to examples of the practices and inner gestures required by this work. Steiner describes the necessary steps and stages, always insisting on the free, individual, and cognitive character of anthroposophic spiritual research. This essential inner guide is for anyone on a path of true spiritual development. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Esoteric Development | 1 |
The Psychological Basis of Spiritual Science | 24 |
Suprasensory Knowledge | 50 |
The Attainment of Spiritual Knowledge | 72 |
General Requirements for Esoteric Development | 91 |
The Great Initiates | 101 |
The Rosicrucian Spiritual Path | 120 |
Imagination Knowledge and Artistic Imagination | 137 |
Three Decisions on the Path of Imagination | 144 |
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viii. oldal - It should be understood that the introduction of a correct esotericism in the West can only be of the Rosicrucian-Christian type, because this latter gave birth to Western life and because by its loss mankind would deny the meaning and destiny of the Earth. The harmonious relationship between science and religion can flower only in this esotericism, while every amalgamation of Western knowledge and Eastern esotericism can only produce such unproductive mongrels as Sinnett s Esoteric Buddhism.