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Morte sulla Terra e vita nel Cosmo

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Le conferenze entrate a far parte di questo volume furono tenute da Rudolf Steiner nel 1918 (febbraio-marzo) a Berlino e vengono ora tradotte in italiano sulla scorta di uno stenogramma non riveduto dall'autore. Conservano perciò l'impronta caratteristica delle cose parlate.

A tutte le sue conferenze del tempo di guerra lo Steiner usava far precedere un pensiero per i vivi e per i morti, invocando sopra gli uni e gli altri il divino aiuto degli Spiriti tutelari. Fra altri analoghi da lui enunciati via via a tale scopo, c'è il pensiero che egli premetteva a ciascuna delle conferenze riunite qui, e che noi riproduciamo in un'approssimazione quasi letterale.

Per coloro che stavano sui campi di battaglia, le parole erano queste: “Voi che vegliate sulle anime terrene, voi che tessete intorno ad esse; Spiriti tutelavi che, mossi dalla Sapienza universale, sopra ad esse amorosamente operate; ascoltate la nostra preghiera, guardate al nostro amo:, re, i quali, — devoti allo spirito, inviando amore, — vorrebbero congiungersi con le forze aiutatrici che irradiano da voi”.

E per coloro che avevano già lasciato la terra: “Voi che vegliate sulle anime accolte nelle sfere, voi che tessete intorno ad esse; Spiriti tutelaci che, mossi dalla Sapienza universale, sopra ad esse amorosamente operate; ascoltate la nostra preghiera, guardate al nostro amore, i quali, presaghi dello spirito, irradiando amore, — vorrebbero congiungersi con le forze aiutatrici che fluiscono da voi”.

Indice dei Contenuti

- I - I morti e i vivi

- II - I nostri morti e i pensieri cosmici

- III - Il rapporto dell'uomo col mondo spirituale

- IV - Il senso di comunione col mondo e la gratitudine quali ponti verso i morti

- V - Fiducia nella vita e ringiovanimento dell'anima quali ponti verso i morti

77 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 15, 2016

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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.

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