An Outline of Occult Science

by Rudolf Steiner

Overview

CONTENTS

Chapter I The Character of Occult Science

Chapter II The Nature of Man

Chapter III Sleep and Death

Chapter IV The Evolution of the World and Man

Chapter V Knowledge of the Higher Worlds

Chapter VI The Present and Future Evolution of the World and of Humanity

Chapter VII Details from the Domain of Occult Science Man's Etheric Body

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644396827
Publisher:	Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Publication date:	04/19/2022
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (25/27 February 1861- 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of idealist philosophy and with links to Theosophy.

Steiner led this movement through several phases. In the first, more philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism; his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being. :291 In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts (developing a new artistic form, eurythmy) and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural centre to house all the arts, the Goetheanum. After the First World War, Steiner worked with educators, farmers, doctors, and other professionals to develop numerous practical initiatives, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophical medicine.

Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual component. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang 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 colors and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the fourth edition; 1. The character of occult science; 2. The nature of man; 3. Sleep and death; 4. The evolution of the world and man; 5. The perception of higher worlds (concerning initiation); 6. The present and future evolution of the world and of humanity; 7. Details from the domain of occult science; Author's remarks.