How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Classics in Anthroposophy) - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

This is the classic account of the modern Western esoteric path of initiation made public by Steiner in 1904. He begins with the premise that "the capacities by which we can gain insights into the higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us." Steiner carefully and precisely leads the reader from the cultivation of the fundamental soul attitudes of reverence and inner tranquility to the development of inner life through the stages of preparation, illumination, and initiation.

• Foreword by Arthur Zajonc
• Prefaces by Rudolf Steiner
• How to Know Higher Worlds
• The Stages of Initiation
• Initiation
• Practical Considerations
• Requirements for Esoteric Training
• Some Effects of Initiation
• Changes in the Dream Life of the Esoteric Student
• Achieving Continuity of Consciousness
• The Splitting of the Personality in Esoteric Training
• The Guardian of the Threshold
• Life and Death: The Great Guardian of the Threshold
• Epilogue (1918)
• Afterword by Arthur Zajonc
• Index

Biografía del autor

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up (see right). As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe's scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner's multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.