What Happens Before We Are Born: Creating Our Living Web of Destiny

by Arie Boogert, Philip Mees (Translator)

Overview

Based on the spiritual insights of Rudolf Steiner, here is the master roadmap you will need to travel the path of life after death. The vivid descriptions that Arie Boogert gives take us from the moment of death through the worlds of soul and spirit, showing how the hierarchies of angels help us process our past life deeds and experiences to form our karma within the continuity of our the individuality for a new incarnation on the Earth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781584209133
Publisher:	SteinerBooks, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/22/2020
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Arie Boogert (1933-2013) was born in The Netherlands. He was a priest in The Christian Community, Movement for Religious Renewal. After his ordination at the Seminary in Stuttgart, Germany, he served in the congregations of The Hague and Zeist in The Netherlands. In 1989, he went to Australia for three years, after which he served in Denver and later in Boston until 2008, when he returned to The Hague. He made a lifelong study of the many indications Rudolf Steiner gave in his books and lectures on life after death. He wrote several books on this subject, including What Happens after We Die (2020) and What Happens before We Are Born(2020), published in English by SteinerBooks.

Philip Mees was born in Holland and has lived in the United States since 1969. He is a retired bank officer and was for many years a trustee of the Rudolf Steiner Foundation (RSF Social Finance, San Francisco CA). He is a long-time student of Rudolf Steiner's work and one of his particular interests is the evolution of human consciousness through the ages as expressed in art, as well as in human actions in everyday life today. His principal retirement occupation is translating Dutch anthroposophical books, in which his ably assisted by his wife Linda Connell. Linda and he live in Glendale CA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Exploring of the Hereafter vii

1 Toward the Sun 1

2 The Soul World 15

3 The World of Spirit 32

4 "Lifting up Our Eyes" 48

5 What Is the Human Being 64

6 Reversal: Inside Turns Out 78

7 Reversal: Downside Turns Up 92

8 A Revised and Improved Edition 109

9 Breathing in the Light 124

10 Heaven under Our Feet 140

11 The Destiny that Awaits Us 154

12 Incarnation in Sight 171

13 Conclusion: The Human Being-a Risky Venture 187

Appendices: Journeys beyond the Text

1 The Form Body 209

2 The Resurrection Body 211

3 Evolutionary Stages of the Universe and Earth 214

4 Returning Soon? 219

5 Suicide 227

6 Necessary Evil 233

Cited and Related Works 241