Lezioni Esoteriche, Volume I: 1904-1909

Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner #cw 266/1

by Rudolf Steiner, Alberto Avezzú (Translator), Paolo Fuga (Translator)

Possiamo considerare il volume trascritto dai partecipanti alle conferenze di Rudolf Steiner come uno strumento contenente tutta una serie di indicazioni pratiche per lo sviluppo della vita interiore. In tale prospettiva il titolo “Lezioni esoteriche”, presentate con l’apporto di esercizi e mantra adeguati al suo senso. L’ampiezza dei contenuti e dei temi affrontati, le numerose illustrazioni e gli schemi di riferimento completano le singole lezioni. Vi si coglie con evidenza come vi sia un netto passaggio da un ambito teosofico di sfondo orientale ad un sempre e maggiore insieme di contenuti rosicruciani di matrice occidentale. A complemento, lezioni di raccordo e molteplici spunti meditativi, sempre singolarmente presentati. Per sua natura, un testo adatto a coloro che hanno fatto della vita antroposofica un motivo di “pratica”, oltre l’aspetto meramente sapienziale che essa trasmette. È l’augurio dei curatori che il presente testo divenga motivo di arricchimento interiore e di vero esercizio secondo il primigenio intento che originò a suo tempo ogni singolo incontro tra Rudolf Steiner e il suo preparato pubblico.

520 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007

About the author

Author also wrote under the name Rudolph 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.