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Spiritual Science - Rudolf Steiner Page 2Rudolf Steiner considered it his task to survey the spiritual realities at work within the realms of nature and throughout the universe. He explored the inner nature of the human soul and spirit and their potential for further development in a spiritual and scientific manner; he developed new methods of meditation; he investigated the experiences of human souls before birth and after death; he looked back into the spiritual history and evolution of humanity and Earth; he made detailed studies of reincarnation and karma. After several years, Rudolf Steiner became increasingly active in the arts. It is significant that he saw the arts as crucial for translating spiritual science into social and cultural innovation. Spiritual Science was the term Rudolf Steiner used from spiritual investigations through a rigorous and careful process to achieve a high standard of accuracy. Accurate results through spiritual science could be achieved by careful and meticulous work on the seekers part to develop a high moral and spiritual character, so that his or her own inner distortions would not taint spiritual visions of the higher worlds. Seekers at similar levels of development could then achieve similar understandings of reality, much in the same way that scientists may explore the material world, thus promoting a scientific spiritual investigation. These spiritual understandings can be attained by a path of spiritual development as laid out in many of Rudolf Steiner's books, such as How to Know Higher Worlds and Spiritual Knowledge as an Intuitive Path. Although mystical perception was a part of this, character development and the proper balance of thinking, willing and feeling was an important part of self development towards a true spiritual science. Rudolf Steiner did not believe in keeping esoteric knowledge secret in the modern age, so his books, founded on his own investigations are also deeply aligned within the western spiritual tradition. Therefore Rudolf Steiner's material provides us not only with an introduction to his own unique path of personal and spiritual development, but one that helps us understand many of the mysteries within the western spiritual tradition. His use of the terms spiritual science and the intentions behind spiritual science were to provide a coherent and systematic spiritual approach which would appeal to the modern mind steeped within scientific thought. Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy, page 3, press here. Some other works by Rudolf Steiner related to Spiritual Science:
Mystics After Modernism by Rudolf Steiner This information about Rudolf Steiner is courtesy of www.SteinerBooks.org. |
Rudolf Steiner Courses at EYFT Rudolf Steiner's Anthrosophy, click here Related discussions: The Bhadavad Gita and Rudolf Steiner's How to Know Higher Worlds |