Anthroposophical Guidelines
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2022
169 pages
978-1-948302-46-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains a collection of short essays by Steiner for the members of the Anthroposophical Society. They were written near the end of Steiner's life and in a way summarize, in highly concentrated form, the whole of Anthroposophy. Each essay ends with a short summary of its contents and these are known, in this translation, as the "guidelines." The guidelines are mantras and can be used quite fruitfully for meditation.
Frank Thomas Smith provides a new, reinvigorated translation of Rudolf Steiner's classic, "Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts." Any serious student of Anthroposophy, in fact, any individual, any citizen of the world, needs to read this book.
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- Intro
- Anthroposophical Guidelines
- On the Anthroposophical Guidelines
- On the preceding Guidelines about the image-nature of man
- On Understanding Spirit and Experiencing Destiny
- Spiritual Realms and Human Self-knowledge
- At the Dawn of the Michael Age
- The State of the Human Soul before the Michael Age
- Aphorisms
- The Pre-Michaelic and the Michaelic Path
- Michael's Task in the Sphere of Ahriman
- Michael's Experiences during the Fulfillment of his Cosmic Mission
- The Future of Humanity and Michael's Activity
- Humanity's Michael-Christ-Experience
- Michael's Mission in the Cosmic Age of Human Freedom
- The Cosmic Thoughts in Michael's Activity and in Ahriman's
- First Contemplation: How Michael prepares his earthly mission in the spiritual world by conquering Lucifer at the Gates of the Consciousness Soul
- Second Contemplation: How the Michael Forces functioned during the first unfolding of the Consciousness Soul
- Continuation of the Second Contemplation: Hindrance and Furtherance of the Michael Forces at the Dawn of the Conscious Soul Age
- Third Contemplation: Michael's anxiety about human evolution before the time of his earthly activity
- Further Guidelines, relating to the previous Third Contemplation
- Christmas Contemplation: The Logos Mystery
- Additional Guidelines relating to the foregoing Christmas Contemplation
- Heavenly History - Mythological History
- Earthly History - The Mystery of Golgotha
- What is Revealed when One Looks Back at Repeated Earth Lives
- What is Revealed when between Death and a New Birth, One Looks Back into Previous Lives - Part 1
- What is Revealed when between Death and a New Birth, One Looks Back into Previous Lives - Part 2
- What is the Reality of the Earth within the Macrocosm?
- Sleeping and Waking in Light of the preceding Contemplations
- Gnosis and Anthroposophy
- Human Freedom and the Age of Michael
- Man as a Thinking and Remembering Being
- The Macrocosmic Nature of Man
- The Sensing and Thinking Organization of Humanity in Relation to the World
- Memory and Conscience
- The Supposed Extinguishing of Spiritual Knowledge in Modern Times
- The Historical Turbulence at the Dawning of the Consciousness Soul
- From Nature to Sub-Nature
- Other Books
