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Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner #CW 136
The Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature: a Course of Ten Lectures Given in Helsingfors 3rd-14th April, 1912
1951. No Edition Remarks. 210 pages. Brown dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.
- GenresNature
Hardcover
First published June 1, 1981
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Rudolf Steiner
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more 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 through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more 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 through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
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September 29, 2012
This will blow your mind. Steiner describes the consciousness of beings much more highly evolved than humans. Trying to picture these beings is difficult conceptually but rewarding meditatively. Cool stuff, makes weird science feel tame.
January 29, 2025
Excellent read, if you enjoy reading Steiner’s work. He speaks to a Finnish theosophical society about the universe and the place of minerals, plants, animals, people and all of the angelic hierarchies in it. My German copy also contained the public speech he gave on occultism and initiation in Helsinki. One of the most clear speeches he has ever given on the subject. Highly recommended!
November 5, 2025
Rudolf Steiner's work is truly something else - he explains concretely and directly how we can become co-creators with the spiritual processes and beings that constitute the evolving reality we call 'cosmology'.
Taking part in these lessons has enriched me with a much deeper understanding of how nature spirits, archangels, spirits of wisdom/motion/form work and exist. I look forward to continuing to explore Steiner's lessons, materials and books.
I want to quote a passage that really stuck with me;
"In a real way we will attain love, peace and harmony if we direct our vision away from the concerns of Earth that divide humanity into races, nations and religions and direct it toward the starry heavens, where spirits speak the same language to us through all eternity - the same language for every human soul, every human heart, if we only understand it rightly."
Taking part in these lessons has enriched me with a much deeper understanding of how nature spirits, archangels, spirits of wisdom/motion/form work and exist. I look forward to continuing to explore Steiner's lessons, materials and books.
I want to quote a passage that really stuck with me;
"In a real way we will attain love, peace and harmony if we direct our vision away from the concerns of Earth that divide humanity into races, nations and religions and direct it toward the starry heavens, where spirits speak the same language to us through all eternity - the same language for every human soul, every human heart, if we only understand it rightly."
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