Inner Reading and Inner Hearing & How to Achieve Existences in the World of Ideas: Two Lectures cycles, Followed by Two Christmas Lectures Dornach, ... 1914: Achieving Being in the World of Ideas - Brossura

Steiner, Rudolf

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0880106190 ISBN 13: 9780880106191

Casa editrice: Rudolf Steiner Pr, 2008

Riassunto

2 lecture courses & 2 Christmas lectures, Dornach, Oct. 3-7 & Dec. 12-20, 1914; Dornach, Dec. 26 and Basel, Dec. 27, 1914 (CW 156)
These two lecture courses, given just after the beginning of World War I, stand as a kind of unexpected gift. A few months later, once the war became a reality, the possibilities for esoteric work would change and it would become more difficult to do spiritual research. But in the short interval before the true horror of the conflict unfolded, Rudolf Steiner--almost by the way--was able to give these lectures, which lay out in the clearest fashion the path of anthroposophic meditation, and its assumptions, language, and consequences.
The first lectures expand on the idea of inner "reading" and "hearing" as the path to spiritual knowing. The spiritual world gives something and we, as spiritual researchers, receive and then read or interpret it. Spiritual knowledge is not a matter of will, desire, or intention on our part, but a gift from the spiritual world for which we must prepare ourselves by silencing our desires, emptying ourselves, and presenting ourselves in humility and devotion to the spiritual world. Then we become aware of the reality that the spiritual world is nowhere else but here, all around us; and if we dissolve the sense of being skin-bound, we can become open to it, reflect its images in our astral bodies, and then learn to read them by identition. Steiner describes this complex, subtle, existential and living process, in which ultimately we can become one with the universe, in a masterful way from which anyone who meditates, or wishes to begin to meditate, will gain a great deal.
The second lecture cycle, "How to Achieve Existence in the World of Ideas," deepens the themes developed in the first cycle, so that the two together provide a useful guide to the processes underlying meditation or learning to know the spiritual world.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rudolf Steiner Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0880106190
• ISBN 13: 9780880106191
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 217
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