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Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom
Atlantis: The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge
The Pocket Library of Spiritual Wisdom is an exciting new book series of original contributions by Rudolf Steiner to human knowledge from metaphysical dimensions of reality normally hidden from everyday consciousness. With his philosophical and scientific training, Steiner brought a new systematic discipline to the field of spiritual research, as well as fully conscious methods and comprehensive results. These books highlight samples of his work with excerpts from his many talks and writings on some of the most fascinating themes in contemporary spiritual research. They are easy-to-read, accessible texts with helpful introductions, commentary, and notes. Topics in this volume The Continent of Atlantis The Moving Continents The History of Atlantis The Earliest Civilizations The Beginnings of Thought Etheric Technology - Atlantean Magical Powers Twilight of the Magicians The Divine Messengers Atlantean Secret Knowledge - its Betrayal and Subsequent Fate The Origins of the Mysteries Atlantis and Spiritual Evolution
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112 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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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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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 10, 2008
Great Wisdom.Really interesting to read Rudolf Steiner's view on Atlantis - The Fate of a Lost Land and its Secret Knowledge - especially in his concluding survey of Atlantis and Humanity's Spiritual evolution in which seems to parallel what's happening on Earth at this point of time!
December 1, 2019
Great little book full of big concepts.
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June 16, 2020
Rudolf Steiner was not just a noted educator and founder of the Steiner-Waldorf method. His work in spiritual science pushed boundaries and challenges its readers to think more deeply about the possibility of higher worlds. In this collection of speeches, Steiner challenges us to consider Atlantis as either a physical place or perhaps a spiritual place, to think more carefully about the individual’s creative evolution able to discover one’s full potential within our shifting individual and cultural perspectives on reality.
His ideas on spiritual thinking open up new vistas of inner worlds and spiritual life. There is much to consider about human existence and its connections to deeper rhythms of creation. Regardless of Atlantis’ actual existence, it is these ideas that make Steiner’s work here an important part of understanding ourselves and his own work on human education.
His ideas on spiritual thinking open up new vistas of inner worlds and spiritual life. There is much to consider about human existence and its connections to deeper rhythms of creation. Regardless of Atlantis’ actual existence, it is these ideas that make Steiner’s work here an important part of understanding ourselves and his own work on human education.
June 13, 2012
MUST. READ. MORE. STEINER.
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