Encountering Rudolf Steiner - Intro to Essential Works

Encountering Rudolf Steiner - Intro to Essential WorksThe deep aim, or intention, of an introduction (understood esoterically) is a living understanding, or, as the poet William Blake put it, the ability to catch the bird in flight and fly with it. If successful, this makes it possible for any reader to hear or translate, into his or her own understanding, what Rudolf Steiner is offering, within and beyond his words, in these texts of The Collected Works. Christopher Bamford Rudolf Steiners writings and

contributed much to the regeneration of culture

Imagination is a primary aspect of the contemporary path of inner schooling – the first of three levels of initiate knowledge and cognition

she has loved music and language from an early age and has combined them with teaching throughout her life

wasps and bees

all of whom belonged to the waning phase of philosophical idealism

personal transformation now needs to blossom from within each individual human soul

Steiner makes clear that

the influences of Christian and Mohammedan thinking

Plants and the living earth

In the two lecture courses featured in this volume

where theology could best be expressed in verse

her training under Rudolf Steiner from 1912